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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Even that's becoming less and less shocking all of the time.
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No idea what "that" is, because I didn't click on Cliche's link. Ever since the advent of the "links to gross stuff on the internet" trend, I'm wary of links that promise to shock me. They probably will--and I'm fine without being shocked, thanks!
On topic, I think this would be a different situation if this guy were a member of an international organization of extremists who planned and co-ordinated this attack in order to forward their plan of eliminating all liberals.
It's despicable that this guy killed those people--and shocking that he did it in their house of worship--deplorable that he did it because of ideology. But let's not make it into a hate crime, or compare it to terrorism. He was a crazy person--a deeply unhappy, deeply crazy, deeply paranoid and probably very sick person--and the result was a tragedy. There's no need to make it into something more political than it is.
And I say that as someone who is pretty close to being a member of a UU church, actually. Just FWIW.