you realize how often you can turn around your final statement and make racism the cause, right? mental illness just being a factor? You make a piss-poor argument here.
it's racism. It's not difficult or shameful to admit that this racist shitburger killed people because he is racist.
why the fuck is that a problem for you?
Racism is the belief that some races are worse than inferior to others. We dont go around killing animals for the sake of being inferior, we kill them because it gives us something else. You dont kill a chicken to just kill a chicken, you it to eat it. A racist on the most extreme side will just look down upon other races. Now, racists are humans and thus complex, so they have other beliefs too. You can have an angry racist who feels that a group is doing x on top of being inferior.
If that anger builds enough, they may lash out at one of the groups they dont like. That racism is a factor in the choice of who the person attacked, but not a cause. The cause was the anger. What drove that anger is likely complex as well.
This guy has had years of mental issues. If you looked at the link I posted earlier you will see all the problems he had. The guy was going off the deep end for a while. His racist beliefs is what made him target those people vs others, but likely he was going to hurt someone eventually even if he were not a racist.
So, if he were likely to hurt people racist or not, then racism is not the cause of the murder, its a cause for the choice of who to murder, but not the drive to murder.
This thread has many posts by me, and if you want to isolate just one to say my argument is weak, that is up to you. I have supported each statement I have made, or at the very least given a good effort. I do not dodge anyone on this forum ever.
The simple fact is this. The guy had years of mental issues. He had his guns taken away once before because he was thought to be dangerous. His mother feared turning him in before because she feared him hurting her. Those things had nothing to do with racism, but were due to his mental health. What irritates me is that people just want to dismiss this as a racist thing, when clearly mental issues played a massive role here. All I said to start this was that I bet this guy had the medical emergency over mental issues the day before, and that people would focus mainly on race over that.
I think the reason people don't like to look at mental health in these types of cases, is because they think it absolves the person and if the person is absolved then they should not be punished fully if at all.
If I were driving on the highway and I had a sudden unknown health issue that caused me to pass out and cause an accident that killed someone, almost nobody would say I should go to jail if I did nothing to trigger it. If I were wasted from drinking all night and did the same thing and killed someone, they would all call for jail time. People want punishment and justice, and if this is labeled as mental health, then how can you call for punishment for someone who was sick and could not stop themselves?