So, what causes a guy to go on a nutty killing spree?

[RJ 17]

It seems most talk on the Connecticut Killspree has been about guns.

But really, shouldn't other factors be discussed? Like making sure that sort of thing isn't something a guy wants to do?

Surely there must have been something seriously wrong even before the guy chose a weapon, but what was it?

It's really quite simple when you think about it. The Left wants to blame the NRA, the NRA wants to blame the media. They're both wrong.

Dude was fucked up. He was crazy. He wasn't right in the head. Need I go one?

Sometimes there's no reason behind it other than "Dude's fucking nuts". THAT'S the reason. THAT'S why he went on a killing spree then blew his own head off.

I don't know when "He was fucking nuts" stopped being a viable explination for these kinds of things. Crazy people are crazy, they don't need something to make them crazy, they're already crazy. Now what set off this guy's craziness on this particular day that made him want to go on a shooting spree? I can't say...I'm not crazy. It could have been something as simple as his mother forgot to wash his laundry the night before and he flipped out, who knows?

Point is: crazy person is crazy...that's the end of the damn story.

 

[BakedZnake]

Its simple, the guy was a nut.

*Its simple, the guy was an american

Fixed

 

[Brainwreck]

Nyah. Silly escapist won't let me upload an image even though it's to the exact specifications and whatnot.

Ot.
We don't know and we will never ever know.
It's really sad, but that's really all there is to it.

 

[DrunkenMonkey]

This is just a guess but a person that commits a killing spree has a questionable moral character that people either know or don't know about, they deviate with the way normal life works either because they have dysfunctional families that don't offer enough love, they are outcasts in a sense that they can't make friends that stick. Or they might adapt a view that they are outside the confines out societies rules, not above the law, it's just the normalcy principle doesn't float their boat.

Or they could just have negative feelings bottled up that can cause harm when something stressful happens in their lives as that is the trigger, alternately they could just be pricks that want to cause others harm just for the sake of it, although I don't like that explanation because its what the masses want to believe, because every other alternative implies that they are victims of their own emotions and or society.

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

You even played LoL? Try it, makes you want to do terrible stuff to your teammates.

 

[theheroofaction]

I was going to say a few things But what I would say would just be parroting.

Though I would like to say that the ones involving mental health care and the media coverage of these things seemed to be the most logical one.

 

[astrav1]

It seems most talk on the Connecticut Killspree has been about guns.

But really, shouldn't other factors be discussed? Like making sure that sort of thing isn't something a guy wants to do?

Surely there must have been something seriously wrong even before the guy chose a weapon, but what was it?

Posts like these cause it. Seriously, use the search function or try not being such a trendy sensationalist. This has been done to death.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Unless he saw a psychiatrist regularly, we will never know. There are lots of issues, disorders, diseases, and imbalances that can cause this and it takes a professional to properly diagnose most of them.

 

[waj9876]

Because they are either a very, very bad person, or they are fucking insane.

/thread

 

[theheroofaction]

Would have put this into my earlier post, but who reads edits? no one, that's who.

Most of the ones that I've heard of have happened this year.

Unless I've been incredibly oblivious then would it not be logical to assume that there has been something this year that's changed.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Drugs, being brought up crazy and being born crazy to begin with. The line between "I hate my boss" and "I hate my boss so much I want to kill him and all my coworkers (and then doing it)" is a line only a crazy person would cross and why we don't understand it.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

We'll never know, will we? The media will overanalyze and speculate until it blows over. We'll get a movie adaptation and some honorary mentions when the next massacre hits home. And that will be that.

 

[Moderated]

Videogames, guns, and bad parenting, obviously.

 

[blackrave]

Specific mental disorder.
Seriously, no media (game, movie, music, book or painting) can force mentally healthy person to commit mass murder.
And even most of mentally unhealthy people (like myself) who often play games, watch movies, read books and listen to music will never do such horrible thing.

P.S. And even if I someday snap and will go on killing/bombing spree, it will be targeted at casinos, banks or governmental institutions, NOT schools, kindergartens or hospitals. Only cowards attack these objects.

 

[Ravinoff]

Mental illness.

http://gawker.com/5968818/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother

This is a good read, and gives another perspective on things. We're focusing on the wrong aspects of cases like these; restrictive gun laws aren't going to do anything for the mentally unstable.

Ugh, that article pisses me off. That guy is the absolute definition of someone who should be locked up, no questions asked, but no, he's allowed to go free until he kills someone.