Posted on 03/16/2021 9:11:08 PM PDT by conservative98
ATLANTA—A Georgia man who professed a passion for guns and God was in custody on Tuesday night after a string of shootings that police said appeared to target Asian women at massage parlors and left eight people dead.
Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia, was caught on video at the crime scenes and later nabbed on a highway two hours south of Atlanta following a police chase, authorities said.
Police stressed that it was still much too early to announce a motive, but the horrific attacks come amid a wave of targeted violence against the Asian-American community.
Details about the suspect that began to trickle out offered few clues.
“Pizza, guns, drums, music, family, and God. This pretty much sums up my life. It’s a pretty good life,” read the tagline on an Instagram account that appeared to belong to Long.
A student who graduated from Sequoyah High with Long in 2017 who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The Daily Beast, “He was very innocent seeming and wouldn’t even cuss. He was sorta nerdy and didn’t seem violent from what I remember. He was a hunter and his father was a youth minister or pastor. He was big into religion.”
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“I remember only that the main character’s self-preoccupation and imagined “world-weariness” were a little off-putting.”
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It would seem, for whatever reason, some people are just strongly inclined to identify with the character. Would be interesting to study why that is.
"For whatever reason?!"
It's a very appealing attitude to assume: "Everyone else in the world is a disgusting hypocrite!" By implication, "I am better than everyone else!"
By extension: "That relieves me of a lot of responsibility for the world's ills and for my own apparent short-comings."
Regards,
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