All white loser incels living in mom's basement and trying to be a rapper do not do this

Sometimes they pick and chose angry rhetoric according to the zeitgeist; who knows why they crack and decide to act out?

Sometimes it's not even politically-related at all:

Filipino-Americans are not immune to cracking, go figure:

In other cases, it turns out that victimhood really isn't about race (even tho SOOOO many people would like it to be as it confirms their narrative about white supremacy and this being a racist country)

This is the problem in that case, as it is in many others, though definitely not all:

I don't post much on it here, but from following crime news for quite some time now, I fully agree that most countries in the west, as well as others like China, are currently experiencing similar epidemics of mental breakdowns, people 'cracking' and acting out violently.

And no, right wing and/or populist movements are not responsible. Yes, those do hit the sweet spot for many crazy people. But they don't act out violently. (I.E., what percentage of Qanon adherents act out violently? Couldn't it even be the case that online Qanon-like conspiracizing activity keeps them busy at their computers when they otherwise might be actiing out violently without that outlet?)

There's one big difference, though, and it's basically this, in the pictured protest poster

And that's without factoring in a vastly larger number maimed for life with health problems that cost our society more.

Somewhat off topic but too good not to share - Omar's such a great big picture thinker:

Walmart case proving to be a nut that cracked, too:

I especially noted the incel-like comments about wanting a wife that was equally "yoked" but not deserving one....definitely someone not totally right in the head. Got to admit he probably was one who wouldn't have been prevented by stronger gun laws (altho a waiting period might have made him think twice) because on paper he had a sterling record.

Dead is dead (and maimed is maimed), mass shooting or not.

Crime is crime, with or without identitarian hate.

If you want to blame white supremacists and Trumpies for riling up the mentally ill to the point of mass shootings or other atrocities, seems to me you also have to blame people like Martin Scorcese:

John Hinckley Jr.

Taxi Driver formed part of the delusional fantasy of John Hinckley Jr.[28] that triggered his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, an act for which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.[29] Hinckley stated that his actions were an attempt to impress Foster, on whom Hinckley was fixated, by mimicking Travis's mohawked appearance at the Palantine rally. His attorney concluded his defense by playing the movie for the jury.[30][31] When Scorsese heard about Hinckley's motivation behind his assassination attempt, he briefly thought about quitting film-making as the association brought a negative perception of the film.[32]

from Wikipedia on the movie

Instead, Scorcese went on to make a lot more movies.

And this is what happened to Hinckley. He is finally a free adult now able to live in society but it was and still is ENORMOUSLY EXPENSIVE for taxpayers! This is what it takes for just one individual, there are no inexpensive miracle cures for serious mental illness. Liberals who promote 'treatment' of seriously mentally ill as a solution are leaving that part out - it takes the work of many many many man hours of many expensive professional legal and medical and social work and law enforcement people over decades. For just one person -

[....] Vincent J. Fuller, an attorney who represented Hinckley during his trial and for several years afterward, said Hinckley has schizophrenia.[27] Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who testified for the prosecution, diagnosed Hinckley with narcissistic and schizoid personality disorders and dysthymia, as well as borderline and passive-aggressive features.[28] At the hospital, Hinckley was treated for narcissistic and schizotypal personality disorder and major depressive disorder.[29]

Treatment

 

The Center Building at St. Elizabeths in 2006

Hinckley was confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.[21] After Hinckley was admitted, tests found that he was an "unpredictably dangerous" man who might harm himself or any third party. In 1983, he told Penthouse that on a normal day he would "see a therapist, answer mail, play guitar, listen to music, play pool, watch television, eat lousy food and take delicious medication".[30] Around 1987, Hinckley applied for a court order allowing him periodic home visits. As part of the consideration of the request, the judge ordered Hinckley's hospital room searched. Hospital officials found photographs and letters in Hinckley's room that showed a continued obsession with Foster, as well as evidence that Hinckley had exchanged letters with serial killer Ted Bundy, and sought the address of the incarcerated Charles Manson, who had inspired Lynette Fromme to try to kill United States President Gerald Ford. The court denied Hinckley's request for additional privileges.[citation needed]

In 1999, Hinckley was permitted to leave the hospital for supervised visits with his parents. In April 2000, the hospital recommended allowing unsupervised releases, but rescinded the recommendation a month later. Hinckley was allowed supervised visits with his parents again during 2004 and 2005. Court hearings were held in September 2005 on whether he could have expanded privileges to leave the hospital.

On December 30, 2005, a federal judge ruled that Hinckley would be allowed visits, supervised by his parents, to their home in Williamsburg, Virginia. The judge ruled that Hinckley could have up to three visits of three nights and then four visits of four nights, each depending on the successful completion of the last. All of the experts who testified at Hinckley's 2005 conditional release hearing, including the government experts, agreed that his depression and psychotic disorder were in full remission and that he should have some expanded conditions of release.[31]

In 2007, Hinckley requested further freedoms, including two one-week visits with his parents, and a month-long visit. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman denied that request on June 6, 2007.

On June 17, 2009, Judge Friedman ruled that Hinckley would be permitted to visit his mother for a dozen visits of 10 days at a time, rather than six, to spend more time outside of the hospital, and to have a driver's license. The court also ordered that Hinckley be required to carry a GPS-enabled cell phone to track him whenever he was outside of his parents' home. He was prohibited from speaking with the news media.[32] The prosecutors objected to this ruling, saying that Hinckley was still a danger to others and had unhealthy and inappropriate thoughts about women. Hinckley recorded a song, "Ballad of an Outlaw", which the prosecutors claim is "reflecting suicide and lawlessness".[33]

In March 2011, it was reported that a forensic psychologist at the hospital testified that "Hinckley has recovered to the point that he poses no imminent risk of danger to himself or others".[32] On March 29, 2011, the day before the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt, Hinckley's attorney filed a court petition requesting more freedom for his client, including additional unsupervised visits to the Virginia home of Hinckley's mother, Joanne.[34] On November 30, 2011, a hearing in Washington was held to consider whether he could live full-time outside the hospital. The Justice Department opposed this, stating that Hinckley still poses a danger to the public. Justice Department counsel argued that Hinckley had been known to deceive his doctors in the past.[35][36]

By December 2013, the court ordered that visits be extended to his mother, who lives near Williamsburg. Hinckley was permitted up to eight 17-day visits, with evaluation after the completion of each one.[37]

On August 4, 2014, James Brady died. As Hinckley had critically wounded Brady in 1981, the death was ruled a homicide.[20] Hinckley did not face charges as a result of Brady's death because he had been found not guilty of the original crime by reason of insanity.[38] In addition, since Brady's death occurred more than 33 years after the shooting, prosecution of Hinckley was barred under the year and a day law in effect in the District of Columbia at the time of the shooting.[39]

Release

On July 27, 2016, a federal judge ruled that Hinckley could be released from St. Elizabeths on August 5,[40] as he was no longer considered a threat to himself or others.[40][41][42][43]

Hinckley was released from institutional psychiatric care on September 10, 2016, with many conditions. He was required to live full-time at his mother's home in Williamsburg, Virginia.[3] In addition, the following prohibitions and requirements were imposed on him.[44][45]

Prohibitions

• drinking alcohol
• possessing any firearms, ammunition, other weapons, or memorabilia of Jodie Foster, e.g., photos, or magazine articles
• contacting Reagan's family, Brady's family, Jodie Foster, Foster's family, or Foster's agent
• from watching or listening to violent movies, television, or compact discs
• from accessing printed or online pornography
• online access to violent movies, television, music, novels or magazines
• speaking to the press
• visiting present or past homes of the current or past president or certain past or present government officials
• visiting graves of past presidents or certain past government officials
• driving from his mother's home more than 30 mi (48 km) unattended or 50 mi (80 km) when attended
• erasing his computer's Web browser history

Required

• to work at least 3 days per week
• to leave immediately if he finds himself approaching prohibited places
• to record his browser history

Although the court ordered a risk assessment to be completed within 18 months of his release, it had not been done as of May 2018.[46]

On November 16, 2018, Judge Friedman ruled Hinckley could move out of his mother's house in Virginia and live on his own upon location approval from his doctors.[31] On September 10, 2019, Hinckley's attorney stated that he had planned to ask for full, unconditional release from the court orders that determined how he could live by the end of that year.[47]

On September 27, 2021, a federal judge approved Hinckley for unconditional release beginning June 2022.[48]

On June 15, 2022, Hinckley was fully released from court restrictions.[49] [....]

You can chose to spend enormous amounts with each seriously mentally ill person, including in many cases depriving them of civil rights, and still miss many of those hiding their illness (like the Walmart manager who appeared well enough to Walmart to make him a manager and a bank to give him a mortgage, or a Travis Bickel who ekes out a living driving a cab...)

OR you can stricty regulate the ownership of firearms, hoping to cut down (though not eliminate, mind you) on the atrocities committed by the mentally ill WHICH OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY SHOWN TO WORK.

More of the same (nuts):

and no, right-wing extremists are not "getting away with it easy" because they're white

There was a related debate going on about threatening speech at a Congressional hearing yesterday:

Speaking of nuts:

a reminder of the ravages of another nut who decided to act out, did he ever:

And this reminded me that the problem of bullying, especially of those who are already mentally fragile, has sort of fallen by the wayside as far as mass shootings are concerned. When it's often an integral factor. If guns are going to be massively available in our society, this factor shouldn't be ignored:

Hunting the white supremacist bogeymen - the world won't get right until they are all rooted out from every possible nook and cranny....

This makes it problematic for Woke narrative builders as this doesn't look like a white supremacist looking to shoot Asians:

I have noted how little attention this story got. It doesn't fit the the narrative of how ACAB, and how 'they' never arrest whites and Republicans.

good examples in the news of what's happening elsewhere, where nuts don't have easy access to firearms (ignoring that this is happening elsewhere is not going to help find true solutions to problems) -

This point will always be applicable, whether one likes it or not:

Dan Abrams of Law and Crime:

Ben Crump: It's systemic racism against Blacks, even if the officers are Black:

ok, so this 'proud Democrat' lawyer with 112,000 followers is clearly not gonna stop with the meme

self-described 'killmonger' using the DC metro today, nobody cares what skin color he has

so crazy he can't even be tried

Everyone can play this game, by the way:

Michigan State shooter, Anthony McRae, gets a new more accurate narrative! #failingyoungmen

How is this different from any other spree shooter? IT'S NOT! Why don't more people see gang 'warfare' as the same fucking thing as any other spree shooter? Hate is hate, anger is anger, most use words, but more and more are using guns.

Literally the Voice of America: White Supremacist Gets Life in Prison for Buffalo Massacre

But what do you do with someone like him if BLM gets its way and prisons are abolished in the future?

He's a young, white, overweight Texan, with a heavy Southern accent and a mullet hairstyle - watch the video and rethink stereotypes you might hold -

another well-said:

So one important point among many: which kind of mass shooting are you talking about?

new profiling discussions I noticed:

I think: what do we expect from them? They're mostly not rocket scientists and they're not fortune tellers either! If you expect preventative policing, you have to expect profiling and it's not always gonna be pretty. Your alternatives to attempting preventative policing are: lessening availabilty of weapons to the general public (everything from guns to bomb instructions and ingredients to taking away anything possibly dangerous on airplanes) or forcibly locking up more 'crazy' people as the current state of medicine cannot adequately treat them

Louisville sounds pretty much like an old-fashioned case of "going postal"

The suspect responsible for the shooting in Louisville Monday morning was a 25-year-old man identified as Connor Sturgeon. It has been reported that Sturgeon was employed at the Old National Bank, the location of the massacre.

Prior to the incident, Sturgeon allegedly sent a text message to a friend expressing suicidal thoughts and a desire to “shoot up the bank.”....

This is actually something good therapists can mitigate. But I am not sure that is so easily accessible as it once was (and it never was great). Certainly someone like this needs emergency access 24/7 and might also need drugs to get over a hump; zoom appointments way in advance aren't going to cut it.

^ Good piece. I would add that the massive 2020 nationwide anti-police protests (with many attendent and related riots and looting) helped exacerbate the situation mightily.

While extremists, including 'white supremacists' have always been with us. As have the mentally ill. But massive negativity towards policing civilization has not; that was new. During a pandemic yet, when 'fear and loathing' was rife about the future.

Of course many more people are going to buy guns! How could they not? When #ACAB becomes a popular meme, why wouldn't they? It only makes sense, one didn't know for certain if any police would survive at all. Thanks, BLM et. al. for helping the NRA and friends out! They were down and you helped them up and then to soar as never before.

As for the national Democratic party, they are never going to live this June 8, 2020 performance down, it's always going to be there. Message: go out and buy a gun, as we may not have police much longer:

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and it's looking like it's another guy (Black this time) with mental illness problems:

Record pace for mass shootings in the U.S.:

(but lefties amazingly still doing " A.C.A.B.", that'll fix things, several guns per family, that's the ticket, no cops!)

14 shot in Clarkesdale, MS and 9 shot in Thibideaux, both on Sunday. DOESN'T SOUND LIKE WHITE SUPREMACISTS CAN BE BLAMED. Not much national coverage, go figure, wonder why.

Summary of Terrorism-Related Threat to the United States May 24, 2023

https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-may-24-2023

[...] Likely targets of potential violence include US critical infrastructure, faith-based institutions, individuals or events associated with the LGBTQIA+ community, schools, racial and ethnic minorities, and government facilities and personnel, including law enforcement.

Duration

Issued:   May 24, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET
Expires:   November 24, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET

Additional Information

• In May 2023, a now-deceased individual killed eight and injured seven others at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas. Law enforcement continues to investigate the motive behind the attack, but initial reporting suggests the attacker fixated on mass shootings and held views consistent with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist (RMVE) and involuntary celibate violent extremist ideologies.
• In March 2023, a now-deceased individual shot and killed six people at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee. Law enforcement continues to investigate the motive behind the attack and has indicated the individual studied other mass murderers.
• Also in March 2023, a RMVE driven by a belief in the superiority of the white race was arrested and charged with allegedly attempting to use an improvised incendiary device to burn down a church in Ohio that was planning to host a drag-themed event.
• In February 2023, two RMVEs driven by a belief in the superiority of the white race were arrested and are now awaiting trial for plotting an attack against electrical substations in Maryland. These arrests followed a series of recent attacks against electrical infrastructure, which some DVEs have praised and leveraged to call for more attacks on critical infrastructure.
• Since spring of 2022, alleged DVEs in Georgia have cited anarchist violent extremism, animal rights/environmental violent extremism, and anti-law enforcement sentiment to justify criminal activity in opposition to a planned public safety training facility in Atlanta. Criminal acts have included an alleged shooting and assaults targeting law enforcement and property damage targeting the facility, construction companies, and financial institutions for their perceived involvement with the planned facility.
• Meanwhile, foreign terrorists continue to use media to call for lone offender attacks in the West, condemn US foreign policy, and attempt to expand their reach and grow global support networks. Most recently, in January 2023, an individual from Maine who was inspired by a variety of foreign terrorist content was charged with federal crimes for an attack on New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square.

How We Are Responding [....]

White nationalist shooter gets slap on wrist: