People go postal. Some are fascists or have delusions of grandeur/severe narcissistic problems. Some are self styled libertarians. Some are paranoid schizophrenics. Some are marxists. Some are people that nobody ever really noticed or bothered to ask what they thought about stuff because they felt that there was just something a little bit wrong with them. And some are muslims. These types of incidents occur with alarming regularity all over the world. In the UK, in Tasmania, in France and Germany, in Russia, in Japan. Everywhere where there are people there are some men, because they are usually men, who creep everyone out a bit and finally decide that they are not getting enough credit/respect/whatever and decide that the best solution is an extended suicide where they get their revenge.

There are warning signs. There is a reason that FBI was looking at this guy. We just have to get a lot better at figuring out how to stop it before it comes to the point where the guns come out so to speak.

These people are dangerous, nasty and violent. They have absolutely no regard for what happens to other people, in fact they most often want to kill as many as possible. I am sure there are psychiatrists who could tell you a lot about how they are created and how to identify them. But my point is this: the problem society has is that we have no way of dealing with people who are bent on killing others like this today. Regardless of whether they work alone or in tightly knit pairs (Columbine) there is no real easy way of getting inside, nothing to infiltrate. Some of them show outward signs, like this guy, big flashing warning signs. But we still have some way to go before we can actually nip them in the bud, make sure that they are managed in a way that they pose as small a threat as possible to their colleagues/fellow students/fellow men.

In this case his religion wasn’t a prerequisite for what he did. It certainly affected the way he justified it in various postings, it affected how he went about before he did it and what he said (possibly) while doing it. But he remains a vile, disgusting and highly disturbed person and someone who isn’t fit to be part of society and that is the real root of this action and nothing else.