I wish one of these crazy shooters would be taken alive.

[raccoon]

Instead of going out in a "blaze of glory" as he plans to, he wouldn't.
He'd live on for years and years in jail. Have years to think about what he did.

It probably wouldn't improve his attitude, but instead of checking out, he'd be around with plenty of time to think about what he did.

[kydo]

1. That one racist that killed the people in church in South Carolina

was taken in alive.

[raccoon]

2. Right. He's young, so he'll have plenty of time to think it over. nt

[SoCalMusicLover]

7. He Won't Think Anything Over

He will spend the remainder of his life consumed with hate. No regrets. His only wish being that he was still on the outside, and able to kill some more.

[mopinko]

3. plenty of such in prisons right now. mass killers, serial killers.

some very interesting research on how people get that way.

[RKP5637]

4. Hell, we've got them in congress now too, just a different style! n/t

[exboyfil]

5. The list of killers taken alive

Nidal Hasan - 13 at Fort Hood
George Banks - 13 in Pennsylvania 1982
Howard Unruh - 13 in New Jersey 1949
James Holmes - 12 in Colorado
Dylann Roof - 9 in South Carolina
Doody and Garcia - 9 in Arizona -killed Buddhist monks and others
Scott Dekraii - 8 in California
Christopher Speight - 8 in Virginia
Robert Stewart - 8 in North Carolina

Notable are two mass shooters that got out of prison - Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden - The middle school shooters who killed five.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. It's insane how the numbers stack up....

The statistic shows the number of mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and 2017, by gender of the shooter(s). Between 1982 and 2017, 2 mass shootings were initiated by female shooters, 88 by male shooters.
I am no expert, but people who DO study these things indicate it may be related to a sense of entitlement.

[Igel]

8. Here's a nifty paper on entitlement.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ajordan/papers/Zitek%20&%20Jordan%20-%20Entitlement%20&%20Instruction%20Following.pdf

The easy reading is to look at it and apply it to the usual suspects. The harder reading is to take it to those who meet the criteria but aren't usually suspected.

One's pointless, but comforting. The other is educational.

[Skittles]

9. gun humping cowards do not think about what they do

that's what allows them to do it