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Yo_Mama

(8,303 posts)
82. Well, we felt sick about Norway
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 01:52 PM
Dec 2012

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.

Well, theres one or two in most families. undeterred Dec 2012 #1
Personally, I thik it makes you MORE likely to own guns. N/T deafskeptic Dec 2012 #12
Definitely. undeterred Dec 2012 #20
Yes, it makes you more likely to own guns, worship Fox news amuse bouche Dec 2012 #39
Home run undeterred Dec 2012 #62
It also doesn't make you an irresponsible citizen paulkienitz Dec 2012 #47
not what a personality disorder is. mopinko Dec 2012 #67
Is that so? Officially? Didn't know that. Democracyinkind Dec 2012 #76
just a member of a family full of mental illnesses. nt mopinko Dec 2012 #78
so the mom had a mentally unstable son AND she owned two assault rifles???? NMDemDist2 Dec 2012 #2
+1 n/t Bonhomme Richard Dec 2012 #8
Sounds like a typical teabagger household to me. Just speculating. kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #17
Everything about this event has been fishy. southerncrone Dec 2012 #55
Par for the course in mass media coverage of atrocities. Mc Mike Dec 2012 #63
That's what I don't understand either. nt valerief Dec 2012 #64
Exactly. Myrina Dec 2012 #71
I wonder if she had them for protection from her son marshall Dec 2012 #72
This message was self-deleted by its author DCBob Dec 2012 #3
WTF????????????? greiner3 Dec 2012 #22
FDA has linked increased suicide risk to certain psych drugs, especially anti-depressants Cetacea Dec 2012 #36
+1,000,000 lbrtbell Dec 2012 #37
Are You A Gun Owner?? Iggy Dec 2012 #43
did anything else allow him access to deadly weapons? tiny elvis Dec 2012 #48
DUHHHHH, Yes Iggy Dec 2012 #75
.. DCBob Dec 2012 #59
Bob, I own firearms, have no desire watch Fox, loathe O'Rielly, support the President. I don't ..... marble falls Dec 2012 #68
Yes, thats probably correct. DCBob Dec 2012 #79
Plus the fact that I don't believe that the "Professionals" really know what to do in certain circum Sivafae Dec 2012 #84
I appreciate your history, your point and the guts it takes to put it all out there .... marble falls Dec 2012 #85
Ya know...the mentally ill and Guns just don't mix to good Bo Dec 2012 #77
No shit, Sherlock... regnaD kciN Dec 2012 #4
Ya' got that right. tabasco Dec 2012 #5
Yes, and quite Berlin Expat Dec 2012 #7
definitely the NSS headline of the day n/t azurnoir Dec 2012 #16
Indeed, and it's such a vague term it may as well be meaningless arcane1 Dec 2012 #18
gee, ya reckon? arely staircase Dec 2012 #6
personality disorder? heaven05 Dec 2012 #9
And since the shooter did not buy the guns riqster Dec 2012 #10
we barely have any existing gun control laws CreekDog Dec 2012 #13
A law that requires guns not in use to be fully secured, on pain of death, would do the trick. kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #15
A conservative i know on Facebook suggested something smart, surprisingly adigal Dec 2012 #26
Incorrect. NJ law allows state police to make determinations involving household members brentspeak Dec 2012 #29
Regrettably, not in Ohio. riqster Dec 2012 #45
Whee, time for another two-week hatefest against "the mentally ill" as a whole.. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2012 #11
Or against gun owners dkf Dec 2012 #23
Or them, yes. Or the straight one-for-one equation of the two, etc. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2012 #33
Yep! lbrtbell Dec 2012 #38
Yup. Guns don't kill people. The mentally ill do. More fodder fro the NRA. Cetacea Dec 2012 #41
I think "personality disorder" is a job requirement for "mass murderer". kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #14
DonViejo Diclotican Dec 2012 #19
Yes, indeed, Diocletian. We need to Wake the fuck up where it comes to guns and their spread Ecumenist Dec 2012 #21
What is the percent of people with personality disorders dkf Dec 2012 #24
dkf Diclotican Dec 2012 #34
It seems to me a whole lot of mass shooting are done by young males with schizophrenia dkf Dec 2012 #35
schizophrenia is not a personality disorder, it is a psychosis olddad56 Dec 2012 #52
It didn't help in Norway, did it? Yo_Mama Dec 2012 #27
Yo_Mama Diclotican Dec 2012 #31
Well, we felt sick about Norway Yo_Mama Dec 2012 #82
Yo_Mama Diclotican Dec 2012 #86
One lunatic u4ic Dec 2012 #57
Accounted for by relative populations Yo_Mama Dec 2012 #83
A short lecture on Personality Disorders. nolabear Dec 2012 #25
Thank you for this post Blasphemer Dec 2012 #28
Thanks for the explanation. llmart Dec 2012 #40
Here is the SSA Listing of Impairments for Personality Disorders happyslug Dec 2012 #44
That's a chilling summary, happyslug. slackmaster Dec 2012 #49
Those are actual SSA Listing of Impairments happyslug Dec 2012 #74
I think most republican politicians suffer from having narcissistic personality disorder. olddad56 Dec 2012 #51
Thank you very much, nolabear. freshwest Dec 2012 #46
Yes. This x 100. n/t easttexaslefty Dec 2012 #50
Isn't the new DSM going to move BPD BainsBane Dec 2012 #60
Personality disorder? Ya think? mysuzuki2 Dec 2012 #30
not necessarily, could very well be a dissociative disorder or a reactive attachment disorder olddad56 Dec 2012 #53
+1000 southerncrone Dec 2012 #56
Or psychosis BainsBane Dec 2012 #61
No shit, Sherlock. aquart Dec 2012 #32
I think someone sold his MOTHER the guns. MADem Dec 2012 #54
Yep HawkeyeLibkid Dec 2012 #58
This Guy AGAIN Fits the Rampage Killer Profile Nearly Perfectly Iggy Dec 2012 #42
Post removed Post removed Dec 2012 #80
One of five young people has a personality disorder mainer Dec 2012 #65
Uhhh, It's NOT About "Predicting Which Ones Will Become Iggy Dec 2012 #81
Well, At Least He Had Access To Semi-Automatic Firearms. Paladin Dec 2012 #66
That whole family sounds fucked up! Odin2005 Dec 2012 #69
Kills 20 kids and has personality disorder? What a shock !!! zellie Dec 2012 #70
How does AP know? Did they get his medical records? lovuian Dec 2012 #73
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