I hope you are monitoring HotAir.com today. Talk about a goldmine of comments.

Their big conspiracies: He came from anti-American South Korea and had “Ismail Ax” written on his arm, which means he’s a Jihadist. He also was an English major, which means we must have been a Marxist. Also, that kid with the cellphone video was a Saudi. Coincidence?

It’s just a crazy fucker with weapons. It’s hard to get your mind around precisely because it HAS no meaning. It’s an aberation. I’ll make 2 quick points.

First, there is a major loophole in the societal deterrent to mass murder. After you kill your first victim, there is no additional sanction, no greater punishment that can serve as a check on your further actions. After this guy killed the people in the dorm, he knew he was all done. He knew he would most likely take his own life rather than accept the consequences for the killing. But either way, there was nothing left with which society could up the ante and cause the killer to think “well, it’s going to be better for me if I just stop now”.

Now, that said, most mass killers or spree killers like this stop before they are stopped. Killing is emotionally very draining, and even in cases like Columbine the killers just burn out their rage and have nothing behind it to sustain their lethality. So in most cases, the number of victims is constrained by the sudden leaden sense of numbness, the emptiness in your soul, the feeling, despite how you started, that you just don’t want to kill any more.

Whitman, Huberty and this guy are the three I can think of that didn’t stop, that somehow managed to continue to kill right up until the end. What does that mean? Three guys, about twenty years apart? If anything, it means that these badly defective individuals are very rare, and for the rest of us, I guess, that can be a comfort…

mikey

Shorter Shorter Everybody on the Internet:

Muslims exist; therefore, everything bad is their fault.

Well said. And mostly true.

I am John Doe. If I see a person of Asian descent raving and acting unhinged, I will report them. Hi, Michelle.

That’s exactly what I’VE been saying all along!

I think this pretty much confirms all my prior confirmations…

And one more thing, self-proclaimed expert cultural critics of the internet: Remember to cite yourselves!

i’m all for gun control. i tend to keep mine in my pants, occasionally it’s even loaded. after fifteen years of marriage, no less!

btw, please email me immediately if someone’s about to shoot me. it’ll undoubtedly help me to determine which way to fall.

A direct descendent of Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics, whose authorship is related to the ‘Shorter’ concept.

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I think Mikey gets some mojo for his comments.

Did anyone catch Tim Kane’s speech to assembled VTers on NPR? It sounded like a campaign speech to me. Maybe I’m missing something in VIrginian culture that says it’s appropriate, but he made the president seem socially gifted.

I am iPundit. I am an annotated bibliography unto myself.

Drats, poster “ahem” beat me to it.

And I thought the d2/streetlawyer connection wasn’t widely known, but I guess it’s a small internet.

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/5644.html#comments this comment confirms exactly what i believe this comment confirms, which in turn is what i believe this:
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/5644.html#comments said so succinctly.

shorter this: this.

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Motion is Impossible and I Proved it.

So fuck you.

Motion is Impossible and I Proved it.

Sorry, you’re only halfway there.

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