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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 03:52 PM Original message |
Binghamton shooter felt "disrespected & degraded" because of poor English skills |
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Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. I just love how this police chief is getting his face all over the TV, acting like he knew the guy |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 04:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. The guy has become a blank slate upon which anyone can project their beliefs. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. I read he had been in this country |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 04:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. OMG of course he's not a victim! |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:17 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Grandmothers rarely learn new languages |
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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. That's really a myth... it's how much time and energy you have to devote |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:07 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Note I said rarely |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 05:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. 28 years?????? Wow. Must have had some issues or challenges mentally. |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. I have lived here 20 years. English is my native tongue. People still make fun of the way I speak. |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:37 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. Understandable but I believe that he didn't speak English very well. Would have |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 05:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. Often, immigrants cluster with people they are comfortable with, |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
3. By product of an asshole who should have just shot himself |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
4. Tragic irony. |
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mucifer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. He was mentally ill. People who aren't mentally ill don't do that. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 04:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. i don't think "mentally ill" really explains it. is george bush "mentally ill"? no? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. oh for fuck's sake. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. you need reading training. but i knew there'd be a response like this, & i considered |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:38 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. sorry, you fail. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:41 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. yes, you did. according to your understanding. but your understanding is nothing to |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. lol. your entire post is filled with speculation and opinion |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:28 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. it's no speculation that desperate people do desperate things; |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 10:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
27. It sounds to me as if he was paranoid i.e., fearing his guns would be |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. why do you think those beliefs indicate paranoia/mental illness |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 02:55 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Paranoia needn't be permanent, in the first place. Second, |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 03:06 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. I saw the caveat; it didn't seem to me to apply to your thoughts on the beliefs. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 05:04 PM Response to Reply #38 |
43. I can't speak for anyone else but all of these shootings don't seem |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 03:05 PM Response to Reply #27 |
37. edit - ignore |
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NorthernSpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 03:24 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. That is so easy to do! |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 05:20 PM Response to Reply #37 |
44. There have been so many lately. :-( |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
10. No. The man was obviously unstable to begin with. nt |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 12:09 PM Response to Reply #10 |
30. yeah have to go with that answer |
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ShareTheWoods (210 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
12. Has the motive been proven to be the "disrespected and degraded" feelings? |
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Mike 03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
14. Is it true he was recently fired from his job? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:43 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. not clear to me exactly who he killed. could have been staff as well. |
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Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 11:18 AM Response to Reply #20 |
29. It was. n/t |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 03:08 PM Response to Reply #29 |
39. if he killed staff, then that goes some ways to making the motivation more explicable. |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
26. "Modern 'talk English' social requirement"? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. If proficiency in English had been a requirement for buying a gun, he couldn't have bought one |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 03:02 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. Not legally, at any rate. Illegally? meh on requirements |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
28. I wonder if he had been taking anti-depressents |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
33. No, I don't think it's a by-product of "TALK ENGLISH!" |
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 03:18 PM Response to Reply #33 |
40. Some people want to blame society even when the "victim" is the exception vs. the norm |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. And he's not even the victim. Well, maybe he was in his own eyes. |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
35. I think he was just a crazy person. Is that valid? |
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