Reply #31: I'm sorry you lost your friend, griffi94.

[The_Commonist]

It's a sad thing when someone cracks like that.
He did a terrible thing, that's for sure.
There's no condoning that.
However, there is always a human face behind these acts.
Someone who is known and loved by others.
Thanks for coming forward like this, it's really kind of unique, in my experience.

There are people around here, as well as elsewhere, who are saying terrible things about this man, and speculating wildly about his motives. That's because people see the world through their own filters, and can't imagine that not everyone else is the same way. It sounds like Joe Stack was a fairly normal guy who got buried under the crap that is the world, and snapped. "Teabagger, Freeper, Terrorist..." People have to put labels on others, and I really believe it is a defense mechanism as much as anything else. Any one of us could lose our shit, under the wrong circumstances, and it helps people to think that they won't be next, if they can put a label like that on the someone else.

My condolences to Joe's family and friends for this terrible loss.
My condolences to those who were harmed by his heinous act...