We know projections of posthumous publicity & spectacle motivate these people (obviously with suicidal ideation as well as desire to kill.)
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Replying to @zeynep
That's why fitting deranged shooters (obviously not unheard of in the USA) into a grand clash of civilizations narrative is not a good idea?
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Replying to @zeynep
Now we have morbid fascination with every detail of San Bernardino shooter's lives. It's an illusion of understanding. It won't help much.
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Look, SB shooters left infant with grandma to go mass murder. It's... deranged. Detailed profiles won't provide coherent answers for future.
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(Meaning we can't just look at details of lives of SB shooters and build a model with a reasonable signal/noise ratio to catch individuals).
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New parents are so unlikely to commit mass murder/suicide that *ISIS* imposes birth control on fighter's wives. SB shooters break all molds.
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@zeynep yup. And as you +@emptywheel say, you got an isolated conservative girl w/ stress, add work place shooting and convenient “banner”1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@thegrugq@emptywheel All shootings horrible but I doubt San Bernardino county holiday party high on ISIS target list. Disordered thinking.4 replies 0 retweets 1 like - Show replies
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