As regular readers know Tearfree has a bit of a bee in her bonnet about whacko psychos who commit horrendous murders and the people that say, “Oh, no, he was a totally normal guy, nothing strange going on there.”
Well, last night on the National, Alison Smith reported this familiar narrative yet again -- telling viewers that the whacko perpetrator of the atrocity against the Amish girls hadn’t given any indication he was about to go off the rails.
First of all, how the hell would Alison know? Because his wife said so? Well, she would, wouldn’t she? Or do we really believe that one day a regular guy just gets up and takes his stockpiled ammo and wipes a bunch of Amish girls off the face of the earth with no prior warning?
People know these sickos are sick. They are either in denial about it or figure reporting it wouldn’t do any good because no one would believe he was more than the average weirdo. Maybe there is no solution to this madness. Denial is what it is and the police can't spend their time doing in-depth investigations of every garden variety weirdo. But, at the very least, in our private lives, we should all stay away from people exhibiting the symptoms of craziness when it actually is possible.
R.I.P.
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