Brazil: Rio school gunman ‘motivated by bullying’
He was bullied so he felt justified in going out and murdering 12 innocent little kids.
If everyone followed his line of reasoning, then I guess the kids who survived but were traumatized should feel justified in growing up and…? What? Maybe blowing up a hospital and killing hundreds? Or perhaps flying an airplane into a skyscraper and killing a couple of thousand??
WTF is wrong with people??
A Brazilian gunman who shot dead 12 children at his former school in Rio de Janeiro last week before killing himself was motivated by bullying, letters he wrote have revealed.
The messages left by Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 23, were released by police along with videos and photos.
In them, he praises a US student who killed 32 people in 2007, calling him his “brother”.
The school massacre in Rio was the first of its kind in Brazil.
“I hope this serves as a lesson, especially to those school officials who stood by with their arms crossed as students were being attacked, humiliated, ridiculed,” Menezes de Oliveira says in one video.
Here’s the part that really gets me. In-freaking-credible:
“I want to leave very clear that I am not responsible for the deaths that will occur, even though my fingers will be on the trigger,” he adds, blaming the murders he went on to commit on bullies.
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