[miss marmelstein]

Hope? You need a psychiatrist! You made a lot of inferences with no facts and then are angry that there is pushback. I hope to live in a world free of islamic terrorists and teenage terrorists - especially when they may come together as one.

[Steve_Seattle]

The book and author that the shooter recommended were named in numerous articles, so I looked up the author and the book. That is where I got my FACTS from. Am I crazy for thinking that the shooter AGREED with the book - the ONLY book - he recommended?

The author was described as a Nietzschean, anarcho-socialist, Social-Darwinist, hater of Christianity and Judaism. He hated Christianity because he believed it was a religion for weaklings, and he promoted the strong-man, the uber-man, who rose above the masses.

I can see those ideas playing out in the mind of a young man full of resentments about a bleak future, a lack of social success, a lack of romance, or whatever, and taking out his anger on ordinary people he deemed unworthy of their bourgeois happiness.

I will take that interpretation over your vague surmises about some Islamic influence behind his actions. I could be wrong, and I will admit it if and when evidence comes out to support the Islamist theory. People like you get so angry when the media jumps out to politicize these tragedies, but you do EXACTLY the same thing.