Subj : Re: Gun Insurance
To   : Gamgee
From : Moondog
Date : Fri Jul 15 2022 02:22 pm

  Re: Re: Gun Insurance
  By: Gamgee to Dumas Walker on Thu Jul 14 2022 08:19 pm

 > -=> Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-
 > 
 >  >  Mo> It goes well beyond mental health.  Crazy people are a minority
 >  >  Mo> of shooters when compared to organized crime and gang murders.
 > 
 >  > No argument there.  I may have been thinking more along the lines of
 >  > "school shooters" when I said that.  In that sub-category, I think the
 >  > crazies dominate.
 > 
 >  DW> Until the urge to become famous because so prevalent, I think a
 >  DW> lot of these mass shooter kids would have been the ones that
 >  DW> committed suicide when I was high school aged.  Now they shoot a
 >  DW> bunch of other people first.
 > 
 > Yup.  :-(
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > ... The future's uncertain, the end is always near.

I get the impression that comitting suicide in this case would not
necessarily be about ending it all, but more for the attention factor.  When
the person ends it all, they're hoping for the people that didin't notice
them to suddenly wish they knew them, or think they could have stopped this
is they had only reached out.  Some of that remorse will happen, then soon
disappear.  Other kids will fall under the radar and no one will make a
change.

Going out in a blaze of "glory" garners way more attention.  Leave behind a
note or a manifesto, and it will be on the news regardless how poorly written
or illogical it is.

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