MaryL
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Just now the headlines are saying that Jimmy Lee Dyke, age 65, has been killed by the FBI after he started pulling out a gun in his bunker with the child Ethan whom he took as a hostage after killing the school bus driver.
I am concerned with the number of elderly rampage shooters starting to occur -- surely quite a new phenomenon! and I think it may be the baby boom generation gradually getting what used to be called "hardening of the arteries" --- paranoia of age.
Another one was William Spengler, age 62, who was a felon who had killed his grandmother as a young person, but had lived without obvious crime for decades, and then suddenly broke out: killed his sister, set a fire, shot four firefighters, seven houses burned down entirely, and he then killed himself like the young people do.
The man who shot up the Holocaust Museum in Washington was 88! James von Brunn only killed the security guard (who wasn't Jewish) but he meant to kill as many as he could. He was a known anti-semite, but hadn't been in crime trouble before -- he just suddenly broke out, as these paranoids do.
What is going on here? These men get old and get paranoid and angrier and angrier and suddenly decide it's a GOOD idea to go out and shoot a lot of people. When they had not done anything like that before! I think the country needs to take this seriously, and watch out for serious paranoia warning signs in older men ---- who own a lot of guns.
These old guys are nearly as bad as the crazy kids. What do people think should be done about this? If anything --
The majority of mass shootings were by people under the age of forty. They either legally bought a gun or obtained them through folks that did. So, are you afraid of all gun owners, or just old folks? Your concerns are misplaced, kiddo. I am up there in years, and this thread is rather offensive and ill thought out.
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