Referencing our handy media coverage of mass-shooting flowchart, you can see we’re now entering the period where we intimately profile the Clackamas Town Center shooter’s life and try to find some sense behind his violence.
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Referencing our handy media coverage of mass-shooting flowchart, you can see we’re now entering the period where we intimately profile the Clackamas Town Center shooter’s life and try to find some sense behind his violence.
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Sarah Shay Mirk reported on transportation, sex and gender issues, and politics at the Mercury from 2008-2013. They have gone on to make many things, including countless comics and several books. More by Sarah Shay Mirk
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But there are approximately a million assholes in the greater metro area, and only one of them shot up a mall food court. So obviously his status as an asshole isn’t the only thing to point to, otherwise we’d all already be dead.
Trying to learn something about violence by sifting through this particular idiots facebook is about as useful as trying to learn something about hurricanes by trying to suck facts out the end of a meteorologists dick. This guy was a lazy, entitled asshole who believed in quick fixes, quick stupid fixes like “I bet if we learn more about this guy we can stop gun violence with the power of our undirected worry” and “If I shoot enough kids they’ll remember my name forever”.