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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
Has anyone mentioned the fathers comments on how he said he wished his son wasn't born and that he did everything possible to make him turn out to be a good kid but he turned out to be a terrorist? Pretty strong words from the father and not exactly what has bee. Portrayed in the media the last few days.
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there's lots of things floating around about the father, but if you look at his views and the fact that he's basically declared himself as the President of Afghanistan, I'm not sure if the crazy apple fell too far from the crazy team.
But he's under investigation because of some suspicious bank account activity.
At the end of the day, its very easy to blame the country itself, and it would be right to do so, because of easy access to guns, and nobody being willing to challenge the 2nd amendment (automatic election loss for the person that does), and the effectiveness of groups like the NRA, they are absolutely at fault for giving these people the tools of the trade to carry out the killing.
but in all of our righteous anger we have to remember that the person that's most at fault is the shooter himself.
from reading up on the active investigation, it does sound like he was investigated for suspicious activity and the Feds even tried to get an informant close to him, but he was cleared, so in the view of the current laws of the states he was able to go out and buy guns because being under investigation and cleared isn't the same as being on a terrorist watch list. So in this case, competency withstanding the system in place did work.
If the wife knew he was conflicted and talking about committing an act of Jihad or a mass killing and she did nothing to call attention to it, except try to talk him out of it then she's just as guilty as he is, and she's as much of a killer as he is. At some point if you know something is going on and you do nothing then you might as well have been pulling the trigger.
the really weird stuff around this are the reports going around about the shooters lifestyle. Going to gay clubs and hitting on men, going to social media and setting up meetings, yet he had a father who was very anti-homosexual, and he was living the life of a lie. So how much of this was about a religious stance, and how much of this was a man's rage about not being able to live the life he wanted, and becoming very easy to recruit.
Its almost like the typical movie scenario where the class bully beats everyone up and it turns out that he's gay and doing the bullying to hide that fact from his classmates and his white bread parents.
This whole thing is so messed up on so many levels, and so different from your typical simple religion made him do it. But at the end of the day, his lifestyle, his life of lies, and his rage made him an easy target for radicalization, not because he wanted to fight for some twisted religious group or kill gays for god, but because he was looking for an outlet for his rage and denial.