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intrepidity

(8,595 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:30 PM Sep 2025

What if...

Trying to understand what motivates a 22-year-old to murder someone.

What if Kirk was also an avid gamer, and he and Tyler played games online together, and got into a rivalry?

What if the real reason has nothing to do with politics, but instead was some stupid online gaming feud? I mean, it could happen.

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RockRaven

(19,755 posts)
2. Why do any of these shooters do it? Usually it is incoherent, and people point
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:36 PM
Sep 2025

to a variety of things about their life as if that explains it.

Often even when they get taken alive like this guy (and it isn't just a rambling manifesto or collection of social media posts left behind) their explanations are a mess in terms of logic, coherence, or reality-basis.

I bet we get a cherry-picked explanation of motive from law enforcement, but that almost certainly won't be the real story in any meaningful way.

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