it sucks that innocent brother was handcuffed and perp walked by cops

[Honeycombe8]

47. I saw a man on TV (ha! but supposedly he's FBI, studied mass killers)...he said

I know that man's face, but I forget his name. Anyway, he said several interesting things. One was that no one has figured out why some people do these mass killings. Second, they know that the kind of person who does this is not usually insane or truly mentally ill, altho they definitely have some mental issues...but they have tended to be severely depressed people who see their lives as going nowhere, etc. They often do not have a violent background.

This makes sense to me. Maybe they are sociopathic...OR...I can see where they have objectified their targets, and their targets represent everything that they are not, who have things that the shooter will never have (in his opinion). I can imagine that mindset leading to a situation such as this one. How else to shoot a child point blank than to objectify the child....you are shooting this person who has everything you never had and will never have (or so you think). So you kill people out of anger and revenge. You are maybe not sociopathic...but these particular people have been objectified for that purpose at that time. The killer may actually be empathic toward others who do not represent what he is angry about.

But boy, am I going out in left field here. We don't know much yet. I'm just saying that I could see what that FBI man was talking about. Not that I've ever felt that way...but I could put myself in the place of that person and see how those feelings could lead to the killing of innocent children.

The same way I could put myself in the place of Lizzie Borden, and see what led to her killing of her father and stepmother, esp with an axe. That it was an axe was very important. Don't laugh...I have been fascinated by the Lizzie Borden mystery for years.