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    VirilityUntoTheeLacey Donohue
    11/03/13 10:51pm

    Here's the unblurred photo. NSFW or whatever.

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      Lacey DonohueVirilityUntoThee
      11/03/13 10:52pm

      Thank you! I didn't want to link to the awful one because triggers and all that. But if people can handle it, click here. If you can't, DO NOT.

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      VirilityUntoTheeLacey Donohue
      11/03/13 10:56pm

      It is pretty gruesome. The fact he's still alive is pretty amazing and says a lot about first responders.

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    lccslLacey Donohue
    11/03/13 11:15pm

    How come he was not charged with terrorism? even the letter had the clear intention to instill fear...

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      SulaymanFlccsl
      11/04/13 12:15am

      Probably because he's not Muslim. It's simple bigotry.

      Honestly, there was a shooting in LAX in 2002 by an Egyptian and everyone called him a terrorist. Similar case today and nobody uses the word. Now these white Americans are just known as "gunmen."

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      blue-haired_lawyerlccsl
      11/04/13 12:24am

      There's no umbrella "terrorism" charge.

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    Whiskey Tango FoxtrotLacey Donohue
    11/03/13 10:57pm

    How does one manage to drop off a roommate who is in possession of an AR-15 and 5 magazines NOT suspect something? Is the roommate really that stupid?

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      Lacey DonohueWhiskey Tango Foxtrot
      11/03/13 11:01pm

      Apparently he had a large duffel bag and told the roommate he had a flight. I've dropped off plenty of people with just a duffel bag at LAX so I'm not sure we can call the roommate stupid on this one? Who asks people what's in their bags?

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      Whiskey Tango FoxtrotLacey Donohue
      11/03/13 11:13pm

      I guess oblivious would be a better term. Unless he shoved a bunch of other stuff into the bag with it, it would be very simple to make out that there was a gun in the bag. Unless you don't know what a gun looks like.

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    ArdenLacey Donohue
    11/03/13 11:26pm

    Dear People Who Blow Up Buildings/Shoot Up Places,

    When you write your manifestos, please write them neatly, and clearly. Provide explicit evidence for your beliefs, (even if it's insane, at least we have a clear point-to-point map for how you went nuts) and make sure your ideas come across well. I'm tired of all your manifestos being rambling, no nonsense conspiracy rants. Please provide the rest of society with a solvable problem rather than the fact that "you're just crazy."

    Good Brief Example: "The current state of affairs with our Government spying on it's own citizens as well as the overly paranoid treatment of citzens by TSA has reduced the once greatest nation on earth into a paranoid surveillance state. The indefinite detention and extra judicial murders of our own citizens has turned America into a living mockery of what we once stood for; We are the enemy we have always said we'd never be. Our inability to alter this within our own corrupt justice system has forced my hand, leaving me no other choice but to take the drastic action I am taking today."

    Bad Brief Example: "the New World Order along with the jews in the media make our fiat currency part of the 9/11 was an inside job country for the muslims are taking over"

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      dallyanArden
      11/03/13 11:38pm

      I'm thinking the causal arrow goes from the crazy person willing to commit such a crime to the crazy, rambling letters. A well-reasoned, articulate letter writer is most likely not shooting up airports.

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      SulaymanFArden
      11/04/13 12:13am

      Would a 150 page manifesto work, like that hatemonger Anders Brevik?

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    corey3rdLacey Donohue
    11/03/13 10:57pm

    New World Order? So he's still freaked out from the first George Bush?

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      workingontheclampdowncorey3rd
      11/03/13 11:09pm

      The guy listened to Alex Jones, I would guess, as well as Mark Levin.

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      corey3rdworkingontheclampdown
      11/03/13 11:15pm

      And the beauty is that those who informed him of these conspiracies will claim no responsibility. Is it their fault that their audience contains people who will flip out and kill people? Although probably privately these people consider a mad man quoting them after a slaughter of government officials as a standing ovation. They just can't admit it cause then they'd be sued by the survivors.

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    Rick_WrinklebottomLacey Donohue
    11/03/13 11:14pm

    I love how the people who believe in this all powerful, incredibly methodical and capable "New World Order" are also almost always the same people who most loudly criticize the government as being incompetent, without even a hint of awareness of how these two tentpoles of their warped worldview are in direct conflict with each other...

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      ItsARampageLanaRick_Wrinklebottom
      11/03/13 11:45pm

      Cut them some slack, they're making it up as they go.

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      sui_generisRick_Wrinklebottom
      11/04/13 1:13am

      Yup — know what else?

      These nutjobs are the folks who constantly vote Republican morons into office who refuse to cut military spending under any circumstances whatsoever...

      ...yet when you ask them why they're stockpiling weapons, it's so they can defend themselves against the tyranny of the U.S. gov't and its military.

      (WTF???)

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    sui_generisLacey Donohue
    11/03/13 10:58pm

    Since the Fox News crowd and the NRA are always quick to try and shift the blame from actual guns to stuff like "violent video games" and movies/TV/music when something like this happens, I'm a bit curious about how much Fox News and NRA mailings this guy consumed on a regular basis...

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      Crass_Warfaresui_generis
      11/04/13 7:07am

      I read that as Fox News and the NBA. Just what is the role of the national basketball association in the new world order, I asked myself. Obama. yes.

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    OneViewHere3Lacey Donohue
    11/03/13 10:55pm

    Somebody should create a Hunger Games type game show where all of these conspiracy nuts (Alex Jones types) get left alone on an island and kill each other off.

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      ItsARampageLanaOneViewHere3
      11/03/13 11:13pm

      But that's so much work. Why don't we just have George Soros or Ben Bernanke mention in an interview that one should never eat rare meat?

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      BBWhatsitOneViewHere3
      11/03/13 11:37pm

      I like the cut of your jib, son. You've got moxie!

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    L Ron FlubbardLacey Donohue
    11/03/13 11:26pm

    Question! I have a crazy FB friend who could very easily become one of these dudes. He is constantly posting bizarro violent nutjob rants and pictures of his guns. We went to high school together and he no longer lives in my state, and I haven't even seen him in 10+ years. I have basically nothing concrete to go on, threat-wise, except that he's clearly disturbed and does NOT like Obama. Is there nothing I can do? Or is there some kind of Homeland Security hotline where you can report crazed lunatics?

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      M54B30L Ron Flubbard
      11/03/13 11:37pm

      I'm sure the NSA has been tracking him, they'll intervene when it's time...

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      FaithandReasonL Ron Flubbard
      11/03/13 11:55pm

      My best advice- your local police department or contact the nearest FBI field office.

      http://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/fie…

      God bless and here's hoping your friend doesn't do anything crazy.

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    BahamaBobLacey Donohue
    11/03/13 11:07pm

    Maybe someone will have a better understanding than I do. But if your goal was take out as many people as possible, why use guns. Seems like there are other ways that are just as easy to accomplish this

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      krashkowBahamaBob
      11/04/13 4:39am

      Setting asaide the obvious answers of availability, skill and time involved, you're ignoring one basic thing: Visceral satisfaction. A bomb is big and takes out lots of people (potentially) but when you're on the war path a gun is instant gratification and using one in anger conveys a lot of visceral power. You're looking at mass killers as thinking "I want to kill as many people as possible." I think it's more, "I want to shoot people as possible. I want to strike out and be active." This isn't always so. Columbine, for example, was meant to be a huge bombing that would be enhanced by shooting. When the bombs didn't go off, Harris and Hlebold decided to go for the standard mass shooting. But for a lot of these guys, its about acting out, not simply acting on, their anger.

      Also, and this is big, mass shooting is a full on meme in our culture the way suicide bombing is for the Palestinians. It isn't a normal act of violence. It's one our culture throws quotes around and evokes strong associations.

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      allthegoodnamesweretakenkrashkow
      11/04/13 8:34am

      It is a meme in our culture because of how the media treats the shootings. That's a proven fact, yet no one seems to want to address that matter. It needs to be reported on, without a doubt, but the next 4-6 weeks of poring over every detail of this person's life is going to accomplish nothing but convince more people who feel like he did that doing something like this will accomplish something in that it will make their life meaningful or notable. Let's talk about how many people were murdered in Chicago last year instead. Oh, wait, that wouldn't attract as much attention, and we might have to address issues of poverty and our ridiculous drug policy and wealth inequality and lack of education. No one wants to do that, so let's just say "GUNS BAD!!!" and keep talking about this deranged kid for another two months.

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