It can happen anywhere, at any time, so why worry about those Islamic terrorists?

[sinkingfeeling]

We live in a country with approximately 280,000,000 guns in the possession of its citizens. At any place or time, one can lose self-control and start shooting.

Still, psychologists can say a few things with certainly about who is more likely to commit the most serious of crimes. Over 90 percent of killers are male, and the same holds for mass murderers—“I can’t think of a single case where a woman has done this,” says Schlesinger—partly because men tend to have more access to guns, which are usually the weapons of choice. The killers are usually somewhere between the ages of 25 and 35. They generally do not have previous histories of breaking the law in any serious way, says Levin. And they are not, on the whole, psychopaths, although they are often identified in the media as such. “A psychopath is someone with little conscience, little interpersonal bonding, someone who’s smooth and manipulative," says Schlesinger. "That personality has nothing, zero, to do with mass murder."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18152839/site/newsweek/

How do you know who that person might be? Note that most, up until they start pulling the trigger, were law-abiding gun owners.

So, why should any American be afraid of Bush's 'terraists' when we're surrounded by other potential killers?

[kwolf68]

1. I predict more of this will happen

As more immigrants enter the country. Smart, educated immigrants will come here and succeed, but then Joe Sixpack will find his lot in life lagging behind that of the "brown people".

It will be like Michael Douglas in "Falling Down"...dude will just snap one day and start killing. This man will be male, white, generally Conservative, likely listens to Michael Savage, who fuels this man's flames of dissent. He will have been bread to blame his lot on life on the people not like him. Like the anti-abortion crusade, his murders will be justifiable. This is how he will ease his mind as he eliminates everyone who does not look like him.

Throw in his access to guns and there you have it. The "angry white male" is still alive and kicking, he just needs some fresh fertilizer (enter Rush, Savage) to get the vine growing again.

[heidler1]

2. You nailed the way of it. Have you got any ideas about how to head it off?

[treestar]

3. American responses to all such events are always way

disporportionate to the odds of such a thing actually happening to them. It's the MSM, probably.