Oh yeah, that’s it -
He was a Right Wing nutjob.
No - he was not a ‘joiner’. Your speculation just fans the flames and attempts to make a group (substitute ‘Jew’, ‘Korean’, ‘Muslim’, or ‘NRA Member’ for ‘Neo-Nazi’ and you would wind up making way more people angry) responsible somehow for what appears to be (so far) the act of a deranged individual.
People will try to analyze his actions, but that is trying to make sense of ‘insanity’. He is dead. He should have been ‘put down’ immediately, but that did not happen.
Everybody needs to just back off and take a deep breath.
‘88’ could mean a LOT of things. As could Ismael, Ishmael, and any of the ‘messages’ he left (although I am disturbed by his choosing what everybody assumes is a Muslim name as his ‘nom de guerre’).
Who cares. He is dead. It is over. We can avoid this in the future, but analyzing it is not the way. Neither is legislation or regulation.
I feel safer in a room where everybody is armed, as opposed to a ‘gun-free zone’. Always have, always will. Barring that, I feel more comfortable in a place where the sheepdogs are welcome.
ONE.......LONE.......NUT
Nothing more. Nothing less.
You said — “No - he was not a ‘joiner’. Your speculation just fans the flames and attempts to make a group (substitute ‘Jew’, ‘Korean’, ‘Muslim’, or ‘NRA Member’ for ‘Neo-Nazi’ and you would wind up making way more people angry) responsible somehow for what appears to be (so far) the act of a deranged individual.”
You’re mistaking the intent of the information. It was not to say that he joined a group. In fact, others on Free Republic are trying to say that he was an agent of some Islamic terrorist group. I don’t think so. And neither do I think he was a member of any of the other groups.
But, not being a member does not mean that he doesn’t take symbols and ideas from various groups and then put them all together, in a mish-mash form — and try to give “justification’ for his actions of killing everyone he can.
As he said — “you made me do it”
And so, in his twisted and whacked out mind, he uses these symbols and these ideas, puts them all together, makes his “manifesto” and then proceeds to kill all those students.
I didn’t say that he was a “member” — but he can very well “be” one (at least in his own mind) as a part of a philosophy or an idea (more like a conglomeration of philosophies, I think).
You can hear “themes” running through the little bit that we’ve heard from him. I would like to get the entire and unedited video, along with the complete “manifesto” and see exactly what he said.