Multiple people killed in another Colorado mass shooting

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'Very Anti-Social’: Suspect in Boulder Supermarket Massacre Was Paranoid, Brother Says

Police identified the suspect as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, a 21-year-old Arvada, Colo., man. Alissa lived "most of his life in the United States."

Didn't we already have an active thread on WP about this mass shooting?

... oh, wait... that was another one...

... it's hard to keep track when they happen less than a week apart ...

I am waiting for the inevitable politicizing of this thread by the usual clique of bullies.

@Daddy63: Clearly you don't know my home town man.

That's not the full list of what the FBI had to look into yesterday & you know it. We're just bummed that anybody would start some kind of self-righteous debate over random violence.

Criminals get profiled, it's nothing new & we know the process to be very informative.

Choosing to blame some set of definite factors for the actions of a belligerent, delusional psycho is not only arrogantly self-assured, it's nothing but hearsay because trials don't happen overnight.

It's already very much established that to be a violent extremist is to be mentally unwell. Ten people died yesterday as a result of a racial persecution-complex, which amounts to terrorism whatever you want to call it.

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I do not understand if he lived in a house with other people that they did not know he had guns and ammunition.
Even if he hid them once he acquired them, he had to get them into the house.
I cannot imagine how to do that with no suspicions.
Did he not have to have a license in order to purchase the guns?

Let me be clear, nobody next door is upset that some raging as*hole with an AR-15 has hurt feelings about being stereotyped. The FBI came & went. Five days of investigation & this dude fries.

It's not like we're dismissive of the causes here but you're talking about net responsibility.

Being religious at all strikes me as a risk factor for being impressionable enough to pick up radical doctrines. It's ultimately not all that different by definition from being in these new internet cults.

Not all people have been coerced to believe their religion is either drastically superior or imperiled by persecution because not all people are religious.

I'm not here to disrespect anyone's spiritual lives, what I am saying however is that people throw around a whole lot of nasty dogmatic nonsense basically whomever they are.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

It's a legitimate concern but ultimately this was a guy with freedom of religion anyway. Nobody legally ordered the dude to construct his own nutcase version of the definition of peace.

This is an example of Americans not being treated as such in many ways.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Whatever anyone in the household believes and practices, SOMEONE had to have a suspicion that he had a gun (s?) and ammunition.
America is about believing and practicing your faith, your philosophy, your politics, that is not the point.
If it were, there are plenty of Voodoo practicioners for people to be upset about in Florida and Louisiana.
This was a man who apparently lived his life with his family, got a weapons license without their knowledge, acquired at least one firearm without their knowledge, acquired ammunition without their knowledge, then used them.
I don’t care what his delusion was.
How do you not know there is a gun in your house?