What's kinda scary is that FedEx facility isn't far from where I live... Oh, it's a good 20 miles or so, but it's within the county, which is disquieting. I don't know where the package was heading, but if it was going to Austin, then he had shipped it from here in San Antonio. If he shipped it from Austin.... Well!
The fourth device, from what I understand, was not a copycat. It was the same basic device, only with a tripline trigger instead. It seems that the bomber was experimenting.
No word yet on his motives. They can't even find much of a connection between his intended targets. At this point I would say it's one of two things: he was either going totally random, or he was going after people that violated his intensely conservative christian sensibilities.
Thing is, while his family sounds very nice, the bomber himself sounds like old testament fire and brimstone - feels that LGBTQ people should not have any rights and that he was vehemently in favor of executions. I think his targets were not racially motivated, but intensely ideological. Maybe people that he viewed as traitors to the faith? I'm not sure, just throwing it out there.
But at any rate, this guy has been everything that I've been worried about and warning against. Someone who is certainly disturbed on a deep level and felt that guns were not the way to go. We haven't even gotten around to passing any real legislation about gun control.
Regardless, I hope that we don't get another mad bomber. A shooter I can at least take a chance with bumrushing them. A bomb? No.
The fourth device, from what I understand, was not a copycat. It was the same basic device, only with a tripline trigger instead. It seems that the bomber was experimenting.
No word yet on his motives. They can't even find much of a connection between his intended targets. At this point I would say it's one of two things: he was either going totally random, or he was going after people that violated his intensely conservative christian sensibilities.
Thing is, while his family sounds very nice, the bomber himself sounds like old testament fire and brimstone - feels that LGBTQ people should not have any rights and that he was vehemently in favor of executions. I think his targets were not racially motivated, but intensely ideological. Maybe people that he viewed as traitors to the faith? I'm not sure, just throwing it out there.
But at any rate, this guy has been everything that I've been worried about and warning against. Someone who is certainly disturbed on a deep level and felt that guns were not the way to go. We haven't even gotten around to passing any real legislation about gun control.
Regardless, I hope that we don't get another mad bomber. A shooter I can at least take a chance with bumrushing them. A bomb? No.