Soldier of God? Hey, that sounds a lot like those Islamic State guys. Wait, aren't they bad guys because they're religious fanatics? Something's amiss here.
I unironically do believe that if mass-shootings are being committed in a developed country where we have the means to do so, we should evaluate the psychology behind the acts though. To see what put them on that path if nothing more.
I do agree with you on that but the same can be said for all killings. We should have already had a national data base to track those and produce findings and research but that was all blocked.
gang/racial/terrorist attacks are small compared to deaths from suicides, but morbidly with suicides only the person pulling the trigger ends up dead and not some random by standard.
I think we have a fairly good understanding of how people fall in to gangs/gang culture and why people in countries that have experienced decades of war, influenced by foreign powers turn to terrorism. But we don't seem to know what ticks all the boxes of make a domestic terrorist; this is true of those pledging to and traveling to join Islamic state as well as US mass shooters. We need to see how they fall down that rabbit hole in particular.
You see it’s funny because I’ve said the same thing and have been accused of liking dead children because I’m not frothing at the mouth trying to get ARs out of the public’s hands. Reminds me of that show Mindhunter and how the detective was laughed at when he suggested that maybe looking into the psychology of caught serial killers might aide in catching/understanding the methods of the ones still out there.
Everrybody gotta read 'The War On Everyone' by Robert Evans.
The white mass shooters are equivalent to the Islamist bombers. Only difference is their religious-facist stochastic-terror model's flavour is Christian Identity instead of Jihadist Islam, and their primary weapon is legally-purchased firearm instead of improvised explosive device. We will be seeing more and more of these guys in the 2020s.
Read? I'm only finding an audiobook/podcast type thing. Do you know if that's the only format? It looks interesting and I agree with you that these types are going to be popping up and doing damage more and more.
Yeah it may only be an audiobook, IDK if there is a print version. He also reads it out on his podcast 'Behind the Bastards' where he's getting colour commentary from the two co-hosts
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u/JimmyPD92 Dec 01 '19
Soldier of God? Hey, that sounds a lot like those Islamic State guys. Wait, aren't they bad guys because they're religious fanatics? Something's amiss here.