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The immigration and failure to educate the immigrants might have been a cause for this. Although I think killing someone would be a law common to the immigrants homeland, the immigrants native law might have had some variations when it comes to people verbally assaulting one's self, heritage or "honor" in their homeland. Educating immigrants on these possible differences might have changed what had happened, but considering how he attempted and nearly succeeding in gunning down all of his victims this leads me to believe that the man did completely snap.
So, racism on the victims part also contributed to the trajedy. A little more understanding and education for cultural differences should be attempted to be taught by the government to the people of the town then. Teaching the younger children of the town how to speak their language may be an attempt already in progress by the government to break the cultural difference. This could be a very effiecient tactic too, since influencing the next generation into acceptance will only lower discrimination for further generations.
Racism aside though, being cronfronted by such a large number of men who then throw racial slurs at someone really could have caused an instable person to snap; especially if the verbal abuse was hostile and threatening. His lack of remorse and happiness for not having to pay his mortgage or child support supports that he might have been a little over the edge.
Without knowing the specifics of the man's beliefs I cannot make any other assumption of why he would react this way if he was sane. All in all it's a trajedy and luckily the other 3 men survived.
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