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Supple Cow, to me, that he shot her for any reason beyond self defense puts him in the psycho category. Monetary gain, turf, or activism wouldn't excuse it, but they would at least follow societal patterns. That he appears to have done it in response to simple rejection says he was on the edge and doomed to snap. I'm thankful he wasn't smart or he might be out there planning his next relationship.
I've noticed this type of crime - something so far outside my understanding - stops my identification with both victim and perpetrator in the hope of more information. It might hit closer to home if I had more information about the relationships, but my gut says the guy is a nutcase and we'd have heard from him sooner or later.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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