The Tourist
Moderator
As you know, we had another shooting last week, and there was a rush to judgement because the alleged felon had a history of mental illness.
As you can well imagine, I bristle at this junk science. A singular issue means nothing. Millions of patients work and interact with no problems at all.
To my way of thinking, these killings are the result of numerous factors all coming together. And after reading today's WSJ, I'm more convinced than ever.
For example, the Illionois shooter was a student here in Wisconsin at one time. In other words, he lived here.
It would also be interesting to me if this shooter had any tattoos. (Fully 100% of every inmate on death row has tattoos.)
This starts to paint a picture for me, because the shooter begins to look like other Wisconsin killers, notably Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer. Further, all of them were quiet and unassuming.
As I have always believed, mass killers are a mix of culture, parental rearing (or the lack), social mores, education and job opportunties. And those traits have previously appeared in other local killers.
Just as a LEO profiler can paint a picture of a killer by identifying a slate of behaviors, we clearly need to look beyond a singular trait of "he took meds."
Personally, I'm going to avoid other cheesehead citizens who are quiet and show ink. Especially if I sharpen for them.
You see, Jeffrey and Ed really liked knives...
As you can well imagine, I bristle at this junk science. A singular issue means nothing. Millions of patients work and interact with no problems at all.
To my way of thinking, these killings are the result of numerous factors all coming together. And after reading today's WSJ, I'm more convinced than ever.
For example, the Illionois shooter was a student here in Wisconsin at one time. In other words, he lived here.
It would also be interesting to me if this shooter had any tattoos. (Fully 100% of every inmate on death row has tattoos.)
This starts to paint a picture for me, because the shooter begins to look like other Wisconsin killers, notably Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer. Further, all of them were quiet and unassuming.
As I have always believed, mass killers are a mix of culture, parental rearing (or the lack), social mores, education and job opportunties. And those traits have previously appeared in other local killers.
Just as a LEO profiler can paint a picture of a killer by identifying a slate of behaviors, we clearly need to look beyond a singular trait of "he took meds."
Personally, I'm going to avoid other cheesehead citizens who are quiet and show ink. Especially if I sharpen for them.
You see, Jeffrey and Ed really liked knives...