by John Boch
Sandra Walden wrote a great piece on her thoughts in reading about the 18-year-old who killed children in Munich, Germany not even two weeks ago in a Muslim terror attack.
I read the same story and came to a different conclusion, seeing the so-called news story as an effort to humanize the barbarian terrorist as a “victim” of bullying.
Instead of calling a spade a spade – or in this case a “radical” Muslim savage committing “jihad” against Western Civilization, the AP went out of its way to paint the barbarian as a misguided victim who was bullied once four years ago. Oh, and he was depressed and seeing a doctor. Boo hoo.
Ms. Walden made a very prescient observation:
“Weapons are strictly controlled in Germany” Exactly! It doesn’t matter how many “gun restrictions” you make, people who want to do bad things to others will find a way to do it.
Yes, indeed. That’s one reason this Muslim terrorist was able to kill and injure so many people: Because there were no good guys with guns handy to put him down like the rabid dog he was.
The AP should be ashamed of itself trying to paint Muslim terrorists as poor victims of bullying and depression. No, they are monsters that must be put down.
MUNICH (AP) — The teenager behind the deadly shooting rampage in Munich was a withdrawn loner obsessed with playing “killer” video games in his bedroom, a victim of bullying who suffered from panic attacks set off by contacts with other people, investigators said Sunday, adding that he had planned the attack for a year.
Law enforcement officials piecing together a portrait of the 18-year-old shooter said he was seeing a doctor up to last month for treatment of depression and psychiatric problems that began in 2015 with inpatient hospital care followed by outpatient visits.
They said medication for his problems had been found his room. But toxicological and autopsy results were still not available, so it’s not yet clear whether he was taking the medicine when he went on his shooting rampage Friday, killing nine people and leaving dozens wounded.
The 18-year-old German-Iranian, identified only as [Scumbag’s name redacted] due to Germany privacy laws, had earlier been described by investigators as being bullied by schoolmates at least once four years ago and being fascinated by previous mass shootings. But none of those killed were known to him, investigators said.
…The attack Friday took place on the fifth anniversary of the killing of 77 people by Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, whose victims included dozens of young people. Investigators said the Munich shooter had researched that slaughter online and had visited the site of a previous school shooting in the German town of Winnenden last year.“He had been planning this crime since last summer,” said Robert Heimberger, Bavaria’s top official, citinga “manifesto” linked to the shooting found in the gunman’s locked room in the apartment he shared with his parents and brother.
Heimberger said he could not reveal details of the document yet because there were “many more terabytes” of information to evaluate, but described the gunman as a “devoted player” of group internet “killer games” pitting virtual shooters against each other.
This is certainly not a healthy way to spend hours and hours as a pre-teen and teenager, but it doesn’t make terrorists. A deeper investigative report might find he spent a lot of time in a radical mosque, too.
Weapons are strictly controlled in Germany and police are still trying to determine exactly how the shooter obtained the Glock 17 used in the attack.
Heimberger said it’s “very likely” the suspect purchased the weapon illegally online on the “darknet,” a restricted access computer network often used by criminals.
The “darknet”? Laugh out loud. Someone’s been reading too many spy novels.
The “darknet” is nothing more than than a part of the internet accessed by special software to anonymize your traffic. It’s not restricted access – unless you find downloading free TOR software (The Onion Router) a restriction.
He said the weapon had been rendered unusable and sold as a prop before being restored to its original function.
Uh, sure it was. He did the same for the ammo, right?
The shooter’s father saw a video of the start of his son’s rampage on social media and went to police as it was taking place, Heimberger said, adding that the family was still emotionally not up to questioning by police.
Witnesses say the gunman shouted slurs against foreigners, even though he himself was the German-born son of Iranian asylum-seekers
Heimberger said the McDonald’s restaurant were most of the victims died was a hangout for youths of immigrant backgrounds, and the dead included victims of Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, and Kosovo Albanian backgrounds and a stateless person. The restaurant remained cordoned off Sunday, as people gathered for a second day to pay their respects.
Across the street, at the shopping mall where the rampage spilled over, the pavement was covered by a long line of flowers, some with messages of condolences. One woman, dressed in black, knelt and cried before being escorted away by an acquaintance.
“Today, I feel deep sadness,” said Veljo Raicevic, a resident. “Why can one person do something like this?”
Fatu Sherrit Schmidt was among those visiting the site.
“Some of the kids who died happened to be my son’s friends,” she said. As for the shooter, “his younger brother was at my son’s birthday two years ago.”