05-27-2018, 12:05 PM
(05-27-2018, 11:22 AM)Donovan Wrote: Bottom line is, people are people. Good, bad, indifferent. We all have our moments of triumph and of weakness. We all have moments of rage. And when there is a gun handy...
Yep, people are 'good' until they're not and there's often no way of foreseeing that they're about to do something very very bad.
We've covered numerous spree and mass public shooters in this thread and others where the killer was thought to be a "good guy" until he wasn't -- quiet, no significant criminal record, no known previous mental health problems, trained in gun safety, military veterans, ex-cops...
And, more often than not, the teen school shooters were also regarded as normal kids until they started shooting up their peers and teachers; the Parkland, Florida shooter being a severe exception to that rule (he was openly threatening to do what he eventually did and LE knew that far in advance).