“Harper-Mercer”
“A hyphenated last name? Poor kid. That often says a lot about the personality, beliefs and attitudes of one or both parents.”
He was also mixed race as his mother was black with a dominant mother who was 9 years older than his father. His father left him and raised his stepchildren.... Ouch! He had a major identity crisis and esteem issues.
Guns tend to be the great ego equalizers for the low self esteem crowd. They think the power is in the gun without realizing that it can be within themselves.
Wow...you're not kidding. I doubt high school moved things very far in the right direction for him, either.
Not enough there to fill all the empty he had and not enough there to re-proportion the odd-sized parts he had thanks to a dominate mom and an absent dad.
With ever-growing pressure on so many weak parts that are picking up the slack for what's missing, something's going to break. I wonder what the pharmacy gave him for strain release.
Our world has developed into a place where ego and self esteem have been granted authority and they have given darkness access to the sacred place within us.
This world can be a tough place to grow up, even for kids in an intact family with good parents, but what about this kid? It would take a demon to set someone up like what was done to him.
Not surprising that he became what he became and then did what he did, especially not with so many things in this bizarre, video game world to light that short fuse.
This is the road we've taken and we've stayed on it long enough to find out where it goes.
All the way to prophecy is my guess, judging by the road signs and the speed bumps and pot holes we keep hitting.
(Takes a good driver to hit them all!)