Tuesday, February 16, 2010

News: Out of the blue?

Details keep emerging out of the University of Alabama-Huntsville shooting - how the people at the meeting shoved the shooter outside the door after her gun stopped firing, the conditions of the people wounded, and, perhaps most interestingly, the troubled personal history of the shooter:



Here's a Shangrila Towers Investigation Hint - it's rather unlikely for someone to "accidentally" shoot a hole in your bedroom wall, then to "accidentally" shoot you in the chest, and then to "accidentally" point a gun at a passing car.

Anyway, the whole ordeal really illustrates that very few spree shooters suddenly "snap" and start killing people out of the blue. Despite some Hollywood portrayals to the contrary, it takes a lot of screws loose to actually shoot a person without provocation. As more time goes by, we'll know more about what happened, but my guess is that heads are going to roll over this one. If there was ever a time for a wrongful death claim...

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