That the phrase "the shooter" has become accepted is exactly the point. Shooter could as easily had a positive connotation. But usage such as this has and is agglomerating "shooter" with negative connotations. Proper usage would be "killer" or "murderer" or "accused" or "suspect".
This is...
Controlling the language is one of the most important weapons of the left/Progressives.
George Orwell/Eric Blair captured the power of controlling language in his far sighted novels 1984 and Animal Farm.
Control of language is control over thought.
You do not need much physical power to...
They may want to broadcast those beliefs after the deed is done. They would certainly want to keep them secure before the deed is done, so as to maintain operational security.
An important consideration is many of these people are mentally ill, and not thinking as normal person is. This killer...
You make very interesting points. There is also the phenomena of online/long distance communities and connections. What part do they play or not play?
It is a Brave New World... pun intended.
Not if he was aware of the constant monitoring and archiving of such sentiments.
Remember the cooked laptop and drowned phone. When those have been subjected to forensic analysis, we may know more.
It is Owellian use of language. The idea is to group anything to do with a gun together. Even though suicide, homicide, and accidents all have different causes and cures, grouping all the gun related events in those categories together force the reader to ask about gun regulation as a "cure"...
Good analysis. For many young men, young adulthood is a difficult transition period. In the current culture, young men are villified and pushed to be feminized. The left works to demonize men. They call it toxic masculinity.
Much of what these mass murderers do does not make sense. Does trying to kill as many people as possible, before you kill yourself, people who have never done you any harm, make sense?
The ones who are so mentally off they cannot formulate a plan and implement it, almost never make the news.
I agree, He did not purchase he particular rifles as part of the copy cat motivation. He is clearly part of the current copycat cluster. Whether he would have actively done something without the Media near deification of the other mass murderers, is impossible to know.
Statistically, it is...
There are a fair number of people who are thinking of the possibility at any one time. When the Media play up a mass murder, all the media attention incentivizes some of the potential killers to actually do what they have thought about. It is why these mass murders occur in clusters. This...
I do not recall any other source but WRTV. I'd be happy to see another, not just someone quoting WRTV. The original WRTV story did not have any time or date where they got the information, other than saying it was Chief Ison, as I recall. This appears to be an exclusive to WRTV reporter Vic...
Confirmation that Chief Ison said Victor Gomez was found to have been armed.
Vic Ryckaert of WRTV confirmed Chief Ison told him the information when they were alone, walking to the Chief's car.
It was exclusive to WRTV. The recording has not been published, according to Ryckaert.
Confirmed...
Practice using support. At 40 or 50 yards, there is a good chance you can use a rest of some kind. It is likely Eli did. Using a support increases chances of hitting. Firing from sitting or prone increases accuracy.