Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Do You Feel Any Sympathy for Omaha Mall Shooter? Some people do and I dont understand why.?

The mall shooter was described in newspaper reports today as quiet and depressed. I think the newspaper reporters wanted a music track of violins playing hearts and flowers.


Quiet and depressed is a vast understatement. The mall shooter was angry, malevolent, psychotic, and a common criminal with a gun who was too much of a coward to go to prison for what he had done. That's why he shot himself.


I don't have sympathy for him, and I don't think most people do either. I think most people are disgusted to read the hearts and flowers shrinkage of the kid.








He fits an all-too-familiar pattern: Kids playing with real guns as if they are playing video games. And it doesn't quite work to say they were desensitized to violence, because after all he was sensitized enough to know how horrific it was and to make sure he wasn't around to answer for it.

Do You Feel Any Sympathy for Omaha Mall Shooter? Some people do and I dont understand why.?
I'm not saying i do or don't, but it's much easier to hate someone if you make them out to be a vicious monster. The fact is, these people are generally the way they are because we as a society set up the conditions to make them the way they are.





So...while I may or may not feel sympathy for a person like this, I'd still recognize that I and the rest of society have failed these people, and they need to be dealt with accordingly.
Reply:I sympathize with his life circumstances, but I think he should burn in hell for taking it out on innocent people.
Reply:Killing yourself is evolution in action killing others without just cause is WRONG ! The police and political hacks however won't let us defend ourselves { perhaps the are afraid we might wellll never mind } if you had shot the bastard while he was shooting those people and saved some lives the police would arrest you and try you for murder something is definitely wrong with this picture!
Reply:I never heard anyone say they were sympathetic to him. Actually if you hear someone saying they can understand why he did that, it's a warning sign that the person who said it maybe be in a major depression or have some other mental illness and you should tell someone who can get them help because they are thinking along the same lines as the killer. That's why it is so common to have 'copy cat killers' after incidences like this!
Reply:You should be in office.... Yeah, what are "warning signs" anyways? Arent most teens depressed? I was, but I didnt kill anyone... And, how exactly do you act on "warning signs" Who is the authority on this? Police? yeah right! School officials? Yeah right..... So, who Do we tell? It all seems to fit together after the fact, society wants to always shift blame for some reason.
Reply:Ha. Good question!


No I don't.


He disregarded the lives of innocent people so, just like that deranged Cho clown in Virginia,


GOOD RIDDANCE to bad rubbish.





And he didn't accept help...


I do feel sorry for his family, though.
Reply:I feel sorry for those he shot and their families.
Reply:Yes, but I feel anger at his parents also. I really feel extra sorry for the innocent mall shoppers. Its just a real bad situation.
Reply:I do feel that this kid had tough breaks. I don't care who you are but not being wanted by your own family tends to mess you up. I'm not justifying what he did because what he did was obviously wrong but I do feel for him. There were warning signs and maybe if someone had picked up on them then we wouldn't be talking about this right now and 8 innocent people would still be alive today.
Reply:i agree with Snardlers
Reply:No, he only did it for attention. The dumbest thing was how he thought that was going out in style..what?? that doesn't even make sense. Everytime I see his stupid little emo face I wanna punch it. Im sorry for his parents.





I don't blame his parents, the media, video games, tv or his peers, I blame the idiot with the gun, and thats it.
Reply:I don't know if I feel sympathy for him, but he was definitely a person who had serious emotional problems. He was not a normal kid who happened to play too many video games. He had received a significant amount of psychiatric treatment, which apparently wasn't enough.
Reply:I am a Christian and well in my opinion this is where God steps in, these fools think they can escape punishment but they cannot escape God, and I promise you he will have to answer to God on why he murdered those people.
Reply:I have nothing more that can be said that you didnt already say. I feel the exact same way. I dont care how old he was, and if he just broke up with his girlfriend or not, its just not right. i feel no sympathy for him what so ever. but i do wonder,, what made him write that letter to his mother before he killed all them people and himself saying,," now i'll be famous" ? was his mother or someone on his case about something? either way, he shouldn't have shotten anyone, but if he had to, it should have been himself 1st.
Reply:It's too bad, but he is like soooo many other teenagers these days, and they don't go to malls and kill people...


I feel sorry for all kids that have pitiful lives, it's suppose to be stress free and full of love...it's how you deal with your problems that make you or break you as an individual....
Reply:I would agree with your last paragraph... I did not know the individual, but his act was an act of a coward. Like u said, he was a criminal, who didn't want to face the punishment for his crimes. And instead of just ending it for himself, he took innocent people with him. Why would anyone feel sympathy for such a sad excuse of a human being?
Reply:No, I don't


He was weak, and he killed people because he was a failure at life. I have no sympathy for him
Reply:nope no sympathy here...i mean come on..it's the holiday season...even the crazy's should take a vacation. don't you think!





Oh and one more thing...it's b/c of crazy stupid selfish ppl like this kid that is going to get out #2 right taken away from us. This just adds fuel to the Liberal parties agenda to get the right to bare fire arms banded in this nation! I will not stand for it...b/c what i want to know is where were the parents on this? why aren't the parents and their lack of child rearing to blame also...i grew up with guns in the house...never once did i think about touching or playing with them. I've gone through some major hardships in my 28 yrs on this earth and never have i ever thought about shooting ppl and committing suicide...why? b/c my mother raised me to be a strong person...and if i did feel like suicide she raised me to be compassionate also...so i would never bring other ppl with me. That's just cowardice.
Reply:No i feel bad for his family that has to put up with people snarling at them and you REALLY can not help who u r related to! I feel very sorry for the innocent people who lost their lives just by being at work and shopping.. I fell sorry for their family who have to make some kind of sense out of this whole mess. AS for the dumb a*( kid he will pay for what he did one way or another.....
Reply:I have no sympathy for this madman who killed and wounded all these innocent people because he wanted to be famous. May he rot in hell!
Reply:While I don't know that I can sympathize with what the shooter did, I can understand the reasoning behind what made him do what he did. According to the report I saw on the "Today Show" he:





-was described as a "lost puppy" that no one paid attention to


-was kicked out of his parents house for quitting school


-was living with a friend's family - even though his parent's lived nearby


-had just broken up with his girlfriend


-had just been fired from his job at McDonald's





So here you have a lonley, disturbed, obviously depressed, isolated individual who lost the only things that tethered him to society (girlfriend, job, parental guidance/affection, a stable home). Since he most likely felt there was nothing left to lose, and (probably) harbored resentment for a society that didn't care about him or what he was going through, he decided to end his own life, and in the process, try to acheive the notoriety that he could never realize in life.





It's very easy to understand how someone can be driven to their "snapping point", but that does not excuse their actions, because they wind up taking out people who had NOTHING to do with why their lives are the way they are.





This has been happening more and more in this country, yet no one wants to address the bigger issue here, which is that many people slip between the cracks of society every day due to the self-involved nature of us all, who see someone who is obviously troubled, yet do nothing about it. We seem to have a complacent, apathetic lassez-faire attitude of "it's someone else's problem" rather than taking the reins when we see this in others and trying to get them some help.





Until we become less self-absorbed as a society, incidents like this will continue to happen more frequently.
Reply:It is sick...Where do these Jack holes get AK-47s?????
Reply:What you don't understand is that it was people like you, by failing to feel any sympathy for this kid since his traumatic childhood, who helped to create the climate of complete rejection that made him feel he had nothing to lose. Such tragedies can't be remedied once they happen. We as members of society should be looking for ways to prevent them. The mentality of after-the-fact condemnation cannot save lives.
Reply:He is a loser and a retard. Killing innocent people during Christmas shopping. Kids these day are on too loose a leash. They need to learn about respect and morals. Feeling sorry for a murderer is twisted, those people need to get their heads checked.





those who gave a thumbs down for my answer. Your probably the reason why we get twisted individuals like this murderer. Get your damn heads checked.
Reply:Nope, he and he alone choose to shoot those people. He is not "an hero".
Reply:No, there's always people whining how their life is so hard. While they sit in their suburbian 2 parent home and cut themselves. Meanwhile, 10 year olds are forced to perform guerilla warfare with AK-47s in Sudan and aren't whining about sh*t.
Reply:f*ck 'em .. no sympathy for a killer.
Reply:i dont understand how ppl that are depressed think killing ppl before killing themselves is gonna help anything... he was probably depressed because he spent way to much time playing video games instead of socializing like normal ppl.
Reply:sounds like you could use some meds too

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