Portland shooting

[CUDA]

http://www.oregonlive.com/

Masked gunman unleashes fusillade, killing two, then himself


My neighbor's Daughter works there, she stopped by house tonight with a co-worker that was there feet from where the shooting happened, still visibly shaken.
My son works across the street. makes you pause

there's a sickness gripping this world.

[CDN_Merlin]

I've been saying for a while now that this world is going to sh*ts. Really makes me wonder where we'll be in 50+ years? It's sad that people think they have to kill when their life sucks.

[Nightshade]

Have they released this human trash's name? (The shooter.)

[Foil]

< shakes head >

I can't even begin to understand the mentality that says, "I'm going to kill myself, so let's see how many I can take with me."

It's amplified when it's so close to home, too. Glad your family and neighbor are okay, Cuda.

[Nightshade]

They released further details here:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/12/justice/o ... ?hpt=hp_t1

[CobGobbler]

What do you guys think of the similar demographic that recent shootings seem to follow, i.e. young males doing this?

My guess is these guys just mentally collapse and want to take those they feel are at fault (society in general) to task. That's why it's so random and there's no connection. The outlet is just to kill.

[callmeslick]

of course, with half the populace having guns just lying around for the taking(this one was 'stolen' from a 'friend'), coupled with what seems to be a growing societal dysfunction, these things are going to keep happening. I'm glad, CUDA, to hear that your friends or family were not victimized. Just got back from down in VA, saw this one on the news and worried about you and yours.

[Top Gun]

I don't even know what to think about what's going through the mind of someone who decides that doing something like this is their only course of action. I guess the only conclusion you can draw is that they had some sort of mental issues going on that no one noticed, and then something just snapped.

[Sergeant Thorne]

I think everyone here might ask themselves two questions: 1) Have you ever blamed someone else for your problems (no matter how small). 2) Has life ever looked particularly bleak to you?

For me life starts to look bleak every time I get 5 hours of sleep or less for 4+ nights in a row. I think some kinds of people might slip into depression in such a situation, but for myself (I tend to be very strong-willed) it can be risky. If I'm not careful I find myself apt to make critical or far-reaching decisions with an unusually narrow field of options (going into the office and taking the boss to task for things going on at work, or quitting my job, etc). Then I get some sleep and everything is a lot more open. If it weren't for my personality--the character instilled by my parents and then my own decisions in life, and my Christian convictions, I imagine picking up a gun and taking the world to task could be a possibility from that perspective. Troubling considering that a lack of sleep is basically epidemic in our culture at this point.

[flip]

LOL!

[vision]

I've been saying for a while now that this world is going to sh*ts. Really makes me wonder where we'll be in 50+ years?

Read "The Better Angels of our Nature" by Steven Pinker. You will be surprised.

[Top Gun]

Yeah, the one thing that has to temper news like this is the knowledge that society was a far more dangerous place even in the fairly-recent past. The big difference is that, today, we hear about pretty much everything bad that happens, thanks to ubiquitous news coverage, whereas even 50 years ago we'd have very little knowledge of events like this that happened outside of our own communities.

[Will Robinson]

The way things have been developing with more and more frequent events of these wanna-be-martyrs going out in a blaze of feel my pain, validate my anger and eulogize me with a world wide production of media sensationalism so the whole world can discuss my plight.... I found my self pondering which will happen first:

TV pundits start appearing on round tables to establish the criteria to determine which massacre is a copy-cat and which one is worthy of being reported as a 'new, original killer'...or...
The media will stop doing the insta-documentary on these attention whore murderers?

Hmmm.....tough call....
I'm going with: Networks struggle to come up with tasteful way to create body count scoreboards and posthumous product sponsorship for the estates of mass murderers as a headline on Drudge Report by 2014.

We are doomed.