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In reply to the discussion: AP: Gunman Believed To Suffer From Personality Disorder [View all]Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)But I am very serious - how do civilizations protect themselves against berserkers like this?
There are also bombs and planes and sabotage of energy delivery systems - like gas lines, which could produce even higher casualties. One thing that so disturbs me about the Norwegian massacre and this one - aside from the fact that the young were targeted in each instance - is that the perps were relatively mentally competent. Most of the people who do this sort of thing are dumbasses, whether because they have organic insanity or they are just dumb. But these two perps were SMART. So they did incredible damage.
Of course Norway did not anticipate what happened. How could Norway? Two years from now we in the US will still be staggering around contemplating the frightening reality that someone could even conceive of massacring school children, for what most people cannot understand as any reason at all. The normal mind cannot grasp these types.
We don't understand what they do because we do not understand how they think or why they want to do what they do. And we will not.