Reply #35: The massacre was planned - he did not snap

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Hassan bought a gun in August, he gave away his possessions the week leading up to the massacre. On the day of the massacre Hasan gave his neighbor his Koran and told her "I'm going to do good work for God" before leaving for the base.

Hasan was driven by religious fervor. He was reprimanded for trying to convert his patients to Islam. He made a conscious decision to kill those people because in his view it was the right thing to do according to his radical interpretation of Islam.