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The New THOMA$ REPORT on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 4:57:04 PM
That’s what I hear over and over about people who plan and carry out mass murder schemes such as the most recent one at a Colorado movie theater. Yes, he may have been a loner. The man who killed a bunch of people at Ft. Hood and the one who committed mass murder at Virginia Tech were “loners.” Others who did likewise were also noted to be loners. But is that a symptom of somebody who is going to go “off the rails” sometime in the future? I don’t think so. I’m a “loner.” At least, by many people’s standards. I live alone and spend most of my time commenting on the world around me from an “objective” viewpoint. I don’t attend many “gatherings” of people. I usually eat alone in a restaurant. I’m no longer a married man, living with a wife or anybody else. I prefer not to “socialize” for the most part. Does that make me a potential mass murderer? No. It’s just the way I like it. I like to choose the people with whom I spend my time, and that tends to be a small group. Yes, I’m a “loner.” I don’t even OWN a gun (though I’m looking for one for self defense, not mass murder). Just because I prefer not to spend my time in large groups of people, don’t look at me when some OTHER “loner” goes out and kills a lot of people. It’s other things besides being a “loner” that leads people to do such things and we’ll be well advised to look elsewhere than his (or her) being a “loner” to find symptoms of a psychosis. I'm a loner because I don't suffer fools well--and the world is full of fools. We're being GOVERNED by fools. It does contain intelligent people too, but I just don't have time to seek them out, so I don't. When I find one, I am fully capable of "socializing" with them. (Just common sense)