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Yes, that was a poor choice of words.
Nobody that I have talked to, has stopped doing the everyday things that might place one in harm's way.
But the one thing that does help is to just talk it over and over and over and over. Discussing the mechanics, similar locations ("Go to this gas station, no wooded areas, no easy access to highway"), estimating number of victims or time it will take to catch him(them) helps sooth some paranoia. Some of that didn't quite translate in that las PS statement.
my apologies
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Dr Strangelove
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Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Frankly, I suspect the "I am God' thing was not serious--he did it as another way to screw with the minds of possible profilers. He wants people to think he is a psychopath, but he isn't. He's a cold-blooded maniac, but not psychotic. |
Yeah, but at least it virtually excludes an Islamic fundamentalist as the shooter. Since "militia" types tend to be Christian fundamentalists it pretty much excludes them too.
Let's get our terminology straight: the word "psychopath" is a layman's term, its use in psychiatry was abandoned more than 30 years ago. It was previously used to describe what we know call the antisocial personality, i.e., the cold-blooded hardened life long criminal who is not a gang member. The term was abandoned when the public adopted it as a generic term for anyone commiting an outragous crime. In some usages it seems to refer to a psychotic criminal, but there isn't a true consensus. Given the outragous nature of this man's crime it could be appropriate to refer to him as a psychopath. You have to admit, even if he isn't truely psychotic, he is one sick bastard.
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lightblue
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L'Boro, UK
Oct 2001
time: 05:23
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Apart from being outside you mean? Think the cops have looked at that, no relations, no race/sex/age thing. I think he (presumed male I gues) just goes out and gets in a nice position and then shoots the first (or the 5th or tenth) person he can get a clean shot on.
SIDENOTE: Don't want to go into the whole gun regulations issue again, but how the hell are some of the alleged rifles/ammo he is using legal...
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NeOmega
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Play Pentagenesis Beta!
Feb 2002
time: 21:23
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Originally posted by Dissident
It would be foolish to deny it. The success of movies like Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon show this. Not to mention the popularity of Charles Manson.
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I found this awfully Ironic while watching CNN a week ago... They were talking about The horrible serial killer in a gloomy tone. Next Story, "It seems a cannibal is taking in the top spot at the box office....." all gleefully. Made me chuckle.
A week ago, I began to think to me self.
First victim of middle eastern decent. This told me it more than likely was carried out in a middle eastern neighborhood. I am no major in Criminal psychology, but, usually, I think, a serial killer will start in his own neighborhood.
Reports tonight came up it was an olive skinned man.
This is an unsophisticated terrorist attack.
It has no real backing by al quaeda, it is simply an angry man trying to kepp the terror of Sept. 11th alive.
Also, the I am god statement: It would have been Allah, but that would have given the police a good idea of what they are dealing with. Sniper too smart for that.
I think the "death" card was less important, and the depiction of the fourth Horseman on the card more important.
That, is my prediction. I will be on the McLaughlin group shortly...... 
Luckily, I am not a police officer giving a press hearing, so I can say such bold predictions.
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Wraith
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Austin, Texas, USA
Aug 1999
time: 23:23
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--"Don't want to go into the whole gun regulations issue again, but how the hell are some of the alleged rifles/ammo he is using legal..."
Unless you're reading reports that I'm not, the sort of weapon he's using is exactly the last sort of thing to ever be targeted by gun control measures. What I'm talking about here is a single-action (probably bolt) long rifle.
What the people here, and in the media, seem to have missed is this simple fact. The same guns that are good for hunting big game are good for sniping...
Unfortunately, our media prefers to make hay about weapons that look scary. Some of us have realized this sort of thing for a long time now, which is why it's perfectly obvoius that the stated goals of the gun control movement are either flat out lies or are being made by ignoramuses.
Wraith
"Who's daddy's favorite weapon, huh? Is it Choo-Choo? Yes, it is! Such a good hand-to-hand weapon you are."
-- Davan ("Something Positive")
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15-10-2002 08:55
must be beacuse they are american germans too whose causasian psychosis have rendered them incapable. 
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