Sometimes when the United States catches a cold -- it's Canada who sneezes ...
Man charged in Mounties' death obsessed with guns
by Patrick Whittle and Rob Gillies, Associated Press; miamiherald.com -- 06.07.14
MONCTON, New Brunswick -- A chilling portrait of a man obsessed with guns and anti-government rhetoric began to emerge as people in this eastern Canadian city struggled to reconcile the knowledge that the person charged with murdering three Mounties was the same one who had seemingly lived quietly among them.
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But as neighbors of his parents and others who knew [the shooter] spoke of a quiet man from a well-liked, religious Catholic family that home-schooled its children, recent posts on social networks told a very different tale -- a litany of paranoid conspiracies that included statements on Russia being a threat to Canada and deep animosity toward authority figures.
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"I just want to know what was going through his head," [a friend, Trever] Finck said.
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What a thing to be obsessed about. It's not like having a bunker full of guns, will keep those "conspirators" at bay. Although
Putin is sure to turn around, and go back the other way, when he sees it ...
I wonder how many of cases of hateful-shooters, started out as a simple case of a suicide wish, that somehow got amped-up by rage?
Thanks to "a good guy with some pepper-spray" -- we may finally get a peak into this psychotic-broken window ...
Suspect ‘did not expect to be alive at the end of yesterday’
by Jennifer Sullivan and Steve Miletich, Seattle Times staff reporters, seattletimes.com -- June 6, 2014
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The man accused of killing one student and wounding two others Thursday at Seattle Pacific University told police he wanted “to kill as many people as possible before killing himself,” according to a court filing made public Friday.
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One of his mental-health providers has not seen him in months, said [public defender Ramona] Brandes, who described [the shooter] as suicidal.
The one common problem these dangerous-to-others shooters share:
They both had unresolved mental issues, and they both resorted to gun violence to 'solve them'.
Another common problem these dangerous-to-others shooters shared:
That despite their unresolved mental issues, they both were able to easily get guns, that instantly made them 'a Force to be reckoned with' ...
On second thought, MAYBE those are our problems too.