Professor's arrest roils Alabama campus after shootings

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[JoeProBono]

Amy Bishop is charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three fellow biology professors. A Massachusetts police chief discloses that Bishop fatally shot her own brother in 1986.

[wardaddy]

plus she was hot even if unbalanced

[BunnySlippers]

Thank you. I thought that statement needed correcting.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“She killed them because even affirmative action wasn’t enough to get her tenure in a second tier university.”

Academics is absolutely full of people with huge egos. People with those types of egos have a hard time losing. That's in part why universities are not meritocracies. In order for meritocracy to work, people have to accept when others genuinely do better than them. This often doesn't happen in universities. When someone does better, the answer is to find a way around this, politically or otherwise. Academics is full of people whose mothers told them they were 'special', and they never matured enough to get passed the need to believe this about themselves. They must perpetuate this self image, at the expense of their own lives and happiness, or at the expense of those who stand in the way of their egos.

[UPcrawfish]

Concurring with El Gato’s comments.. link below spells out the process. Anyone that passes the NICS check can purchase rifle/shotgun/hand gun in Alabama. You must have a “permit to carry” before you wander about armed.
http://crime.about.com/od/gunlawsbystate/p/gunlaws_al.htm

[who knows what evil?]

Wonder if she had a ‘Coakley for Senate’ sign in her yard? Brown winning in her home state probably sent her over the edge...

[who knows what evil?]

Some neighbors found them to be friendly. Others clashed with them. Armstrong said that Bishop passed around a petition to get another neighbor's dogs to quiet down. Armstrong signed the petition; he said Bishop and the dogs' owner eventually ended up in court.

What a shock...progressives from the north move down south, and start telling the residents how they SHOULD live their lives...maybe no one ever told Bishop that the locals "don't give a damn how they do it up north".

[HighlyOpinionated]

The Shooter lives next door to one of my many Cousins. My cousin says she is “strange.” She would send her kids over to my Cousin’s house to play even when it was not convenient for my Cousin.

Thoughtless? Seems so. Self-absorbed? Definitely so.

I feel sorry for her kids.

[LadyPilgrim]

:-) Yes...she was beautiful!

[wardaddy]

probably sociopath and malignant narcissism.

[nonsporting]

What are Alabama’s gun laws w.r.t. college campuses? My guess either it is against the law to carry a weapon on school grounds (even post secondary) with few exceptions; or, the college/university in question has a policy against weapons on campus.

[Paladin2]

"IMO, you need to earn your job every day of the week. "

I'm not so sure about that. There are some jobs that provide great financial leverage such that saving a company $10 million or so every few years should be sufficient to maintain employment as long as the whole company is also profitable.