[Kip Lange]

I will eat my computer if it's anyone in the 14-25 age group who get their jollies playing video games and have decided to expand a bit. I think it's either AQ or domestic paramilitary guys. I don't think these shootings can be pulled of alone without help and it's hard to imagine a domestic lone nut being able to elude police.

Speaking as a 27-year-old guy who likes Quake, thanks. :p The gaming thing annoys me -- okay, on that logic, let Homeland Intelligence lock up ANYBODY with a copy of Risk! ;-)

As for who it is, the truly scary thing is: We don't know. There just isn't enough information yet for anybody here to definitively be able to say much of ANYTHING...we know some limited, non-useful information, like it COULD be a paramiliatary type, but an amature who has spent some time at a gun range COULD PULL THIS OFF WITH A SCOPE. Easy. There haven't been any headshots, and there are some people who've survived -- I'd say paramilitary would have left a bit more gore. But that's just my opinion -- I don't know a darned thing. I WILL, however, argue vehemently against anyone who wishes to advance the "videogames and tv led to this" idea. ;-) Things like that can be triggers, but you have to be already dangerously psychotic to no longer be able to draw the distinction between a game and life. Again, a trigger if you're ALREADY a dangerous sociopath. It doesn't MAKE people dangerous sociopaths. No more than collecting guns makes that person a "whacko gun nut" who's on a mission to form his own militia. :p

--KL

[Elenya]

Again, a trigger if you're ALREADY a dangerous sociopath.

I'm sure we all agree on that, but it's worth repeating...

[valleygal]

I think you're right. One has to be a little over the edge for video games to be the reason for this. My son (almost 13) loves to go play paintball with his dad and his youth group and he is a pretty gentle soul. Males (boys and men) are just "Wild at Heart" according to a book my husband and I just read recently. I already knew that though. :)