What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Ack]

Well a hatchet and pepper spray, even though he had a gun, and had some bomb shit in a back pack. Dude was like 51, whats up with all these older white folks doing crazy shit?

White male privilege and the entitlement from it.

As an entitled white male I have to agree that's the truth. Some people can't handle the fact that not everybody gets to be an astronaut despite what Mr. Rogers told you.

Except in this case it was actually mental illness.

[Exhuminator]

Except in this case it was actually mental illness.

Isn't being an entitled white male believing one is inherent to privilege a form of mental illness?

[Ack]

All jokes aside, it's a terrible thing that happened. The guy had a history of violence going back to assaulting a police officer in 2004. His mother had reported him missing a few days ago and claimed she hadn't seen him for a couple of years, if I remember correctly. I wonder if he was receiving any kind of treatment or had anyone helping him.

[Luke]

I've already said we're close to having metal detectors in movie theaters.

These movie theater shooters are cowards. Innocent people in the dark trying to enjoy a movie. And I could be totally wrong, but I do think that if we made assisted suicide a viable option we'd have less of these killings. These killers almost always have a history of self destructive behavior.

And not all, but I would not be surprised if all these killers really want is a death with dignity.

[Luke]

The dude was not like 51, rather 29.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... spect-dead

[prfsnl_gmr]

The dude was not like 51, rather 29.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... spect-dead

I think they started out talking about this one. Since this is apparently just a thing that happens now, however, I understand why we might start mixing them up.

[Exhuminator]

I do think that if we made assisted suicide a viable option we'd have less of these killings.

They seem to kill themselves without assistance don't they? And even when they don't do it themselves, the police don't mind assisting.

[Ack]

The dude was not like 51, rather 29.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... spect-dead

I think they started out talking about this one. Since this is apparently just a thing that happens now, however, I understand why we might start mixing them up.

Not really. We had two in two months. In that same period, how many traffic fatalities, rapes, domestic abuse cases, kidnappings, suicides, murders, airplane crashes, natural disasters, etc., did we have nationwide? This is so uncommon, the media still talks about it.

I think we ought to instead focus on the new problem in America: robot rights in Philly. It's gotten so bad, a robot can't even hitchhike in the city of brotherly love without being decapitated and left in a gutter. Disgusting, America. Obviously we need some kind of law to prevent hitchhiking robot decapitation.

[Luke]

They seem to kill themselves without assistance don't they? And even when they don't do it themselves, the police don't mind assisting.

But they take innocent lives with them.

Not saying that psychology does or does not work, but some of these people need a different route. They go from "I want to end it" to "Might as well take some with me".

I'm spitballing as I don't have an answer, but if people knew they could just end it, we might save some lives. Of course this is a case study that I haven't researched, so maybe these guys are sociopath killers that can't be stopped. But you have guys like the Boston bombers who desperately wanted to kill people but not get caught, and then you have the people who want to go out in a blaze.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Not really. We had two in two months. In that same period, how many traffic fatalities, rapes, domestic abuse cases, kidnappings, suicides, murders, airplane crashes, natural disasters, etc., did we have nationwide? This is so uncommon, the media still talks about it.

This is a good point...even if there weren't any air travel or natural disasters in the past two months.