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davidn3600

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2. What they mean is that no direct group helped him carry out the attack

Reply to Mc Mike (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 01:28 PM

Aug 2016

People can get influence anywhere. I remember one case where a guy went on a killing spree because he thought he was in the Matrix. He had apparently just seen the movie. Is the movie to blame for that killing spree? No. Of course not. The guy was psycho and could have been set off by anything.

The question concerning Roof is was he already radicalized and then he sought out those symbols and hate groups, or did the hate groups turn him into a killer? According to the Feds, he became radicalized on his own and then gravitated to the hate rhetoric.

It's sort of like the debate with violent video games. Are the video games making people violent? Or is it that already violent people gravitate to violent video games?

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Feds: Church Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof 'Self-Radicalized' Pre-Attack [View all] Eugene Aug 2016 OP

Oh. It wasn't his interactions with the Council of Conservative Citizens. He was in a vacuum, a Mc Mike Aug 2016 #1

What they mean is that no direct group helped him carry out the attack davidn3600 Aug 2016 #2

I remember how quick the repug pols were to return the CCC donations right after the shooting. Mc Mike Aug 2016 #3