Link to 'courant.com' story: http://www.courant.com/community/manchester/hc-omar-s-thornton-connecticut-shooti20100804,0,6244219.story
Yet, we are also already seeing sympathetic, shoulder-shrugging stories such as the following (by The Courant's Hilda Munoz and Jon Lender), at times depicting Omar as "...so soft-spoken and laid-back that no one knew how much of an impact the problems were having on him". Plus, (no attribution, same story/writers): "The only clue that the family has about Thornton's motive for the shootings was his complaint that he was racially harassed at work."
Link to 8/4/10 courant.com article: http://www.courant.com/community/east-hartford/hc-omar-thornton-story-0804-20100803,0,5894638.story
'Only clue'?? More information will likely come out in the days ahead, but why does anyone 'need' six guns (of various kinds)? How were these guns kept (e.g., locked up in a safe somewhere, or not)? With all of those guns available, what might happen when "Mr. Soft-spoken" has a "bad" day, or gets angry? (Rhetorical questions. We now know the terrible 'answer' (to at least one), plus Omar (apparently) took the coward's way out and shot himself. Update: 'Mr. Soft-spoken' apparently declared that he wished he "...could have got more of the people." I.e., in his (alleged) shooting/murdering rampage. In the same '911' call he called himself "the shooter". C'mon Omar, should have told it like it was: Ambushin' mass-murderer of unarmed people.)
Who will be the next innocent American co-workers, bystanders, etc. to die at the hand of a heavily-armed, but "real quiet", "nice guy" mass murderer? Will it be me....or you? A loved one?? Who's "number" will be up the next time?
Easy guns. (Link to undercover video.) Poor control. In a gun-happy country of 300 million-plus people, this kind of horrible outcome - repeated over and over - is inevitable. (Probability and statistics-wise that is (if you will). And ultimately, no one can easily predict exactly who will do something like this. Only that it will happen, with some frequency. (I.e., so many people; so many guns.) Also pls. see an earlier post here, same subject. Such carnage occurs over and over in America...)
Here's even a grim (partly-related) "tally" for you, from just one U.S. state (link). We're keeping TRACK of various deadly events, kind of like a (lethal game) score...
Keep turning a blind eye to rampant gun ownership and horrifying gun massacres in this country....and: Pray that you're not the next in the line of fire. Plus keep "trotting out" those much-practiced, finely-honed mourning skills...
When is it ever going to be ENOUGH? What does it take?
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