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In reply to the discussion: Maryland teacher gets disappeared for writing fictional book about school shooting [View all]rpannier
(24,329 posts)33. Doubt it
Wrote the books 3 years ago
No reports of unusual behavior
Man had no guns
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Maryland teacher gets disappeared for writing fictional book about school shooting [View all]
Boreal
Aug 2014
OP
Is it possible he DID have mental-health problems, and they're protecting his privacy?
ColesCountyDem
Aug 2014
#10
That the man may possibly have been had a mental-health problem, when the LEO's encountered him.
ColesCountyDem
Aug 2014
#46
No, that the simplest explanation is usually the right one. Occam's Razor. n/t
nomorenomore08
Aug 2014
#38
In this case, I'm not sure. Seems kind of sinister at first look, though.
nomorenomore08
Aug 2014
#54
I think the simplest explanation, given the known facts, is that some concerned citizen
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#82
The simplest explanation is that some idiot got suspicious after learning about the book,
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#85
One reason it ocurred to me is something that happened here, just this week.
ColesCountyDem
Aug 2014
#20
He published his school-shooting novel -- set 900 years in the future -- three years ago.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#23
True. But so what. He's had three years to become a crazed school shooter, and yet
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#28
They are available online. The school shooting novel, a fantasy set 900 years in the future,
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#24
Remember how the media twists things. Someone used the word aliases quite deliberately, I bet.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#59
"who would even entertain the thought of writing a book about school shootings?"
Boreal
Aug 2014
#29
Writers use pseudonyms all the time. Why would that make your eyebrows twitch? n/t
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#50
Right. That's what the accusers obviously want us to think. But the articles say
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#62
I've learned enough by now to know how often articles get details wrong -- and then repeat
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#70
This other article says he had a legal name change 5 years ago, from Beale to McLaw.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#78
It's one more sign of either very sloppy reporting or deliberately misleading statements
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#102
He teaches language arts and he's written novels under pseudonyms. Since when has that been
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#48
Actually, he wrote the novel when he was a college student. I'm sure he had heard of a number
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#110
He was a student. A writer. He published under a psuedonym. Who though it was a good idea to
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2014
#101