Austin Bomber

[ex-powderbroker]

https://nypost.com/2018/03/21/bomber...er-registries/

[plugboots]

Religious nutbag family members never saw anything wrong with the other religious nutbag family member.


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[stuckathuntermtn]

Another good one is "He was so quiet. Mostly kept to himself. Seemed normal."
No, motherfucker. That shit is not normal.

[GeezerSteve]

Religious nutbag family members never saw anything wrong with the other religious nutbag family member

yup

I'm just not in a rush to say that's the only possibility.

Nor am I. My point is that one should apply the same inferential analysis whether: (a) the bomber was part of a fringe group combining Islamic study and firearm skills training or (b) the bomber was part of a fringe group combining bible study and firearm skills training.

[Grape_Ape]

Yeah scottyb!

The only way to stop this would have been a good guy with a bomb!

We should allow everyone access to bombs so that they can protect themselves.


We should start giving teachers bombs to protect themselves in the classroom!



Now you know how stupid gunflakes like yourself sound.

Approved.

[GeezerSteve]

Does the average cvnt out there understand it's not the police's job to make society healthy?

Tell that to Sgt. Stedenko

[stuckathuntermtn]

Ah, so abnormal is bad. Got it.

I have a very broad definition of "normal".

[Grape_Ape]

I am feeling there’s some terries up in here that need some draxxin’

[stuckathuntermtn]

As far as I'm aware, being non-communicative is usually caused by 3 major things:

Autism. And it's not for lack of wanting to communicate. It's an inability to know how to communicate, among other things. Totally harmless.

Severe schizoid type tenancies. Can result in self harm, but usually not harmful to others. Mostly just sad, tragic, and awful.

Antisocial Personality Disorder. This is where murderous psychopath falls.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Wait, what?

[old goat]

Neigbor lady of the shooter, on TV after school shooting: "We knew there was something wrong with that kid. He always had the same clothes on, every day."
Me: "Oh fuck."

Or maybe the clue should have been when my sons and a little girl in the neighborhood were playing with my wife's old Barbie and I found Barbie naked and hanging by the neck from the bannister. Scary thought--they're both surgeons now.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Oh ok, good talk.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Any truth to this super Christian home schooled shit? Haven't been able to find anything other than he didn't like abortions.

[jono]

He posted some blog as part of a school assignment when he was about 17 and it looks like you'd expect a 17 year old's schoolwork to look. 8 years is a long time in brain development if you want the truth.

[DBdude]

You sound like a deranged jackass to me, I'm calling the cops on you.

the trollmeister strikes with wit....ummmmm not so much

[DBdude]

Does the average cvnt out there understand it's not the police's job to make society healthy?

no....

[billyk]

He posted some blog as part of a school assignment when he was about 17 and it looks like you'd expect a 17 year old's schoolwork to look. 8 years is a long time in brain development if you want the truth.

It was actually about 6 years ago, but that’s a good point. Some people have inferred that he was a racist or White Supremist, but I haven’t seen any statements by him to support that. One of his room mates is black, and stated that they got along fine. He was also known to use a barber shop run and owned by a black man.

Yes, his first 3 bombs targeted people of color. But that could have been just a matter of convenience, since the first bomb was directly south from his house, and the next two a little farther south. The fourth bomb used a trip wire to injure two random white guys walking in an affluent white neighborhood in southwest Austin. After setting that bomb, he went to the closest FedEx location a couple miles away in Sunset Valley to mail the other two bombs. One of those bombs (the one that didn’t explode) was addressed to a young white women who worked at a medical spa in central Austin. The police haven’t disclosed who the other recipient was to be. He had a list of other addresses, that also hasn’t been disclosed, but it was mentioned that the police cleared at least some of those in the Cedar Park area, which is a predominately white neighborhood.

The RIOT connection is interesting, for sure. Christians who shoot guns. I haven’t seen any info stating that they are white supremists, though. Hell, my redneck cousins in Louisiana are Christians who shoot guns. But I’ve never heard any racist comments from them, either.

If you google R.I.O.T. it is hard to get info on the organization itself, but what does come up is a song, album, and a video with that title by a Christian singer named Carman from a number of years back. I’d suspect that the singer had at least the same agenda as the organization. The song is rap like, and there are some black actors in the video. I didn’t take that to be racist, but maybe I missed something.

So why did he do it? He didn’t write or say why, other than he was frustrated by not being able to hold a job. He referred to himself as a psychopath. Maybe he was rebelling to his home schooled Christian upbringing in the worst way he could think of, by killing?

Setting off bombs certainly seems like an act of terror, but as has been pointed out Terrorism has a legal definition that requires political motivation. If he had a political goal in all this, it hasn’t been determined yet, and there is a good chance it never will be.

Another, tidbit. Watching the WGC match play (golf) tournament yesterday, which was held at the Austin Country Club. They had Ben Crenshaw on and he was bragging about the course and Austin. But his choice of words wasn’t the best. He said “Austin is booming”.

[jono]

This happens every time, and this is not a shot at you, billyk, but attempting to retroactively morph the ideas of a psychopath into something that makes sense from a completely different (and rational) perspective is futile in terms of understanding. (But it does reinforce the incentives for terrorism. Which is nice.)

At best, we might learn which excuses a psychopath chose to tell himself while convincing himself to act (or after he'd decided to--possibly when he was the most gullible). To really think he wouldn't have done the same with no better excuse than anger and vengeance, we would have to ignore Vegas, Sandyhook, Columbine, OKC... Which might actually be smarter than taking the word of a psychopath for it anyway. The narrative of "radical Islamic terrorism" has been used too convincingly to rationalize racism and other forms of xenophobia. For foreign-grown terror this fits our narrative that racism and exceptionalism are uniquely American, while tarring Muslims. Obviously a win-win. But now it's a habit: the meaning must be out there! Find Waldo!

If we stay in the paradigm that even psycho killers are rational as we know rationality we'll never get real answers. But we can use our own prejudices to tar groups of people who we don't like, and what's promoting a little terror compared to that?