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Re: Police: Multiple Victims in South Carolina church shooting [W:224]
You're not wrong on the mental health thing -- it was a toxic cocktail of numerous things, racism being one of them.
I'm not denying that this kid wasn't racist and his racism chose his target. But be honest here...if he hadn't done it here...do you REALLY think he wouldn't he eventually committed, or attempted, a mass homicidal act. From what he said, he seems to think he is a victim. And we know he was on drugs.
I have to ask you: how many racist actually breach the murder line? Not many. So what the hell caused this nut bag to do it? We can decry racism and all that other garbage, but you should be smart enough to know that that will all be political outcry. It won't be a solution. And it will do nothing helpful in the end:
Groucho Marx
Now can you actually say that the diagnosis here is that it was guns and racism that pushed him over the brink? Or was it something else? Why are do people want to NOT focus on the fact that our understanding of mental health in this nation, and how we should go about it is basically non existent.
You're not wrong on the mental health thing -- it was a toxic cocktail of numerous things, racism being one of them.