I think the lost, unmoored souls who construct reasons for committing some of these crimes are trying to fill some of the same emptiness as Twitter mobs attacking some perceived infraction or the ideologues who imagine they can re-engineer society if only they are given enough power.
I am agnostic on the subject of tattoos.
The hate-filled losers who commit these crimes are not unmoored--they're solidly plugged into 4Chan and 8Chan--anonymous sites where they can share their racist, nationalist, misogynistic spew with others of their ilk, as well as inhabiting various FB and Twitter sites. Mental illness is not a factor here. Going to church or going bowling wouldn't help.
Right, lacking anything more substantial in their moral/ethical/social operating system, they fall prey to gimcrack political ideologies. This is happening all over, although not always with the same level of immediate lethality. You might shoot up a Wal-mart or a softball game, or you might just cut yourself off from friends or family.
People oversimplify the world into a system of victims and villains, and come to believe the world’s problems could be solved by defeating a given ethnic group. Or bankers. Or Catholics. Or the internet or parts thereof. Or individual politicians. Or some competing gimcrack ideology.
Although I do have to believe that mental illness often enters into it.
I read somewhere that the Texas dude was an extreme environmentalist concerned with overpopulation and the number of people coming into a country that couldn't support their numbers. And the Dayton dweeb was an Antifa admirer and Elizabeth Warren supporter. Definitely sounds like mental illness to me.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
First, to the title question, NO. In my family, both are taboo talking points that have caused problems and will continue to beyond me.
Second, after watching "The Great Hack" on Netflix and knowing a bit about what I know about data use/mining, etc (just enough to be dangerous, not enough to do it), I wouldn't be surprised if at some point, it could be determined, loose cannons were identified and targeted to make them go unhinged and off the rails.
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