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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most people are confused/dismayed by the portrait of  this guy as a normal kid who suddenly did something heinous.  A lot of other perpetrators of terrorist acts or violent crimes have a more predictable pattern:  they became religious extremists, or they behaved oddly and had no friends (Loughner or Holmes), or they would charm people and then screw them over (Ted Bundy).  None of those patterns seem to fit the bill here.

The whole thing has made me want to do some research on people who seem to just snap. Will it turn out, as some posters suggested, that there WERE warning signs? Do most people have the potential to do evil things? Do some people have the potential, and a precipitating act sets them off?  [/quote]

Says who?  The media?  His friends?  His 3rd grade Spanish teacher.

We don't know anything about this guy...before you start pining for the adult he could have been, wait for the true investigation, not a few wrestling buddies who said "yeah, he's great!  I smoked weed with him and he's awesome "[/quote]

That is all we have to go on in really any case until the investigation and yet in almost every case we hear things...

Cho and Holmes....people spoke of signs and evidence they were mentally ill
Lanza - loner, at home, history of problems throughout life

Even the older brother in this case we have heard things...
...arrested for domestic violence, wife and child left him and living with her parents
...dropped out of school
...interviewed by FBI
...didn't fit into culture here, had trouble making friends
...became more involved in religion and in radical thinking in recent years
...left the country for unknown reasons for 6 months last year
...shared or posted jihad / al-Queda videos on Youtube[/quote]

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