Here’s what we’ve learned about the shooter:
- Agents believe he developed a “festering and irrational hatred of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords” after she failed to answer a nonsensical question he asked her during a similar rally in 2007. The question was: “What is government if words have no meaning?”
- He was expelled from a community college in Tucson after five encounters with campus police.
- He was arrested twice in separate drug and graffiti offenses.
- Many of his classmates say he made them feel “uncomfortable” and feared that he would show up in class with a gun.
- Many of them thought he was on the verge of a violent breakdown.
- Many who knew him believed that he was mentally ill.
- He would smile incessantly and break into laughter at inappropriate times.
- A classmate said he was a “left-winger”.
- Others said he was non-political.
- Some say he was a member of a anti-Semitic fringe group.
- He was obsessed with the Mayan apocalyptical prophesy that the world will end in 2012.
- His backyard shrine contained a skull and candles indicating that he might have been involved in Satanic rituals.
- He was upset that the countries monetary system isn’t based on the gold standard.
- He was fixated on the government using grammer as “mind control”. (Which would seem to tie back into the question that he asked Gabrielle back in 2007)
After looking at this list and then listening to the commentators and political types giving their opinions as to why this obviously mentally-ill individual did what he did, it appears to me, that sadly, most of their explanations are framed and designed to advance their own political agendas!
And now… for a look at the lighter side of today’s news, scroll down!