(10-06-2017, 06:45 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(10-05-2017, 02:24 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Oh? Do tell...

Certain people on this board, as do many in the world, love to play semantics when caught in a lie.

"I never used those exact words."

(10-05-2017, 06:44 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Y'all keep making references to this guy's actions like he was sane. Number and type of weapons and motive and such are not relevant when talking about a person deranged enough to do something like this. Stop thinking he was a rational person making rational decisions. I know it's human nature to try and figure out the 'why' of a thing, but when it comes to seriously mental folks there is no figuring it out.

Why did Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz kill all those people? Why did Timothy McVeigh blow up a building? Why do any of these horrific things happen? Because these folks are mentally screwed up in ways that are not understandable to the general population of the world and to try to figure it out or make sense of it is beyond our capabilities.

As usual, Americus wins the thread.

(10-06-2017, 12:59 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: Based on what's out there right now, it's looking to me like he probably was radicalized by Islamic terrorists at some point during the past few years and probably had help either carrying out his deed or at the very least with the logistics of it.

Why Islamic terrorists? Is it not entirely plausible that a 64-year-old white man could have been radicalized by white supremacists? Or by Neo-Nazis? Or even by far right fringe religious groups that don't pray to Allah? Maybe even moreso than the notion that he'd suddenly find himself called to jihad?

To be perfectly honest, I fully expect that the attack was arranged and/or carried out by a domestic group not linked to Islam in the slightest, but by the time the "investigation" is over, Mustafa al-Paddaq will have converted to Islam by his Asian girlfriend five years ago during a trip to Afghanistan that happened during the family reunion he sent a body double to.