The mall shooter was described in newspaper reports today as quiet and depressed. I think the newspaper reporters wanted a music track of violins playing hearts and flowers.
Quiet and depressed is a vast understatement. The mall shooter was angry, malevolent, psychotic, and a common criminal with a gun who was too much of a coward to go to prison for what he had done. That's why he shot himself.
I don't have sympathy for him, and I don't think most people do either. I think most people are disgusted to read the hearts and flowers shrinkage of the kid.
He fits an all-too-familiar pattern: Kids playing with real guns as if they are playing video games. And it doesn't quite work to say they were desensitized to violence, because after all he was sensitized enough to know how horrific it was and to make sure he wasn't around to answer for it.
2007-12-07
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