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Warpy

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30. I think you're right, which is why they get grabbed quickly

Fri Oct 27, 2023, 12:00 PM

Oct 2023

or shoot themselves dead when the cops close in. Or just drive for a few minutes and then shoot themselves when they realize that mass slaughter didn't make them feel any better. Suicide or suicide by cop are the main exits and they're not planned.

The few captured alive are generally the ones with severe psych problems and who don't have ordered thought processes.

If this asshole is still alive, he's up a logging road, his car hidden by brush, living in a lean to, and will most likely be caught when he breaks into houses and pilfers food.

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Anyone remember a mass shooter who wasn't dead or captured pretty quickly? [View all] Shrek Oct 2023 OP

Eric Rudolph (bomber, not shooter) the only one that immediately comes to mind. hlthe2b Oct 2023 #1

Eric Rudolph. He was a bomber, not a shooter, but it took 5 years to catch him. Ocelot II Oct 2023 #2

He had help from sympathetic right wingers. tblue37 Oct 2023 #4

True. The Maine guy seems to be on his own, as far as anybody knows. Ocelot II Oct 2023 #8

How do you know inthewind21 Oct 2023 #12

I don't. What I said is that so far he is *not known* to have an agenda Ocelot II Oct 2023 #15

The linkage to the shooting locations appears to be places he took his (now ex-) girlfriend. brooklynite Oct 2023 #19

He might have a personal motive, but so far Ocelot II Oct 2023 #24

there has been a good bit of information stopdiggin Oct 2023 #17

Not mass shooter FarPoint Oct 2023 #3

Christopher Dorner AntivaxHunters Oct 2023 #5

I think very few plan an exit strategy.. Kaleva Oct 2023 #6

My Thought NowISeetheLight Oct 2023 #10

I wouldn't be surprised if that turns out to be the case Kaleva Oct 2023 #14

If he is as troubled as they say, that would be my thought. Srkdqltr Oct 2023 #20

I wonder if maybe he escaped by water Shrek Oct 2023 #29

I think you're right, which is why they get grabbed quickly Warpy Oct 2023 #30

Christopher Dorner doubleplusgood Oct 2023 #7

With all the guns in Maine, you would think they Emile Oct 2023 #9

Maine is mostly forests. If he knows his way around the woods Ocelot II Oct 2023 #16

Have heard that, in Maine, one can usually not see more than 20-30 feet in the woods Attilatheblond Oct 2023 #18

If you've ever been in any northern forest you'd see how dense they can be. Ocelot II Oct 2023 #52

This. Absolutely this. thenelm1 Oct 2023 #55

Because guns are good at locating things? eShirl Oct 2023 #27

According to gun humpers if everyone had a gun Emile Oct 2023 #28

One of the murderers who killed an OB/GYN Dr. Marcus IM Oct 2023 #11

James Kopp, but as far as we know, he killed only Dr. Barnett Slepian. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2023 #13

James Kopp murdered Dr. Slepian im 1998. wnylib Oct 2023 #37

unless police have an actual trail/track stopdiggin Oct 2023 #21

Not necessarily a mass-shooter but the DC Sniper. MyNameIsJonas Oct 2023 #22

They killed at least ten people over a few months. The whole are was freaked madinmaryland Oct 2023 #23

I think 17 total. MyNameIsJonas Oct 2023 #25

It could have been. It's been nearly 20 years because it was before I moved to Maryland. madinmaryland Oct 2023 #38

Wasn't there claudette Oct 2023 #26

Sylvia Segrist PCIntern Oct 2023 #41

Yes claudette Oct 2023 #42

He's probably dead. maxsolomon Oct 2023 #31

I wonder if some of these cats are on something like Ambien for sleep? Some of those on it reported LiberalArkie Oct 2023 #32

Most shootings happen in more urban settings pinkstarburst Oct 2023 #33

He may well have... 2naSalit Oct 2023 #35

They don't usually have an escape plan. This guy might have. Iggo Oct 2023 #34

Not a shooter, but a bomber - The "Mad Bomber" in NYC in the 1950s kskiska Oct 2023 #36

I wonder if that is where the Unabomber got his idea from. madinmaryland Oct 2023 #39

I'm Thinking, No ProfessorGAC Oct 2023 #46

Did He Kill Anybody? ProfessorGAC Oct 2023 #47

No, but 15 injuries. kskiska Oct 2023 #56

That's What I Thought ProfessorGAC Oct 2023 #58

I think he's dead somewhere and they just can't find him Catherine Vincent Oct 2023 #40

All the time TheProle Oct 2023 #43

Lengthy? It's been two whole days? nt babylonsister Oct 2023 #44

How big a mass? Xoan Oct 2023 #45

If one goes H2O Man Oct 2023 #50

Only if the shooter is white LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2023 #48

Hardly TheProle Oct 2023 #49

There are two types H2O Man Oct 2023 #51

This message was self-deleted by its author spooky3 Oct 2023 #53

yeah sadasfyed Oct 2023 #54

It took a while to find the Idaho guy. dclarston13 Oct 2023 #57