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Tuesday, 17 August 2021

Compassion for a Killer?

It's been ten days. I bet you were going to call out the coastguard to see where I was. You've been feeling starved of free content haven't you? Oooh, I'd love a coffee, thank you for offering. There is a little green coffee cup icon bottom right on this page.

So what's the point of writing a blog post if you are not going to be controversial. Some of what I write here will outrage some readers but free speech and opinion must be defended at all cost.

The tragedy in Plymouth last Thursday led to the knee jerk reaction of cries 'Incel' & 'Violent Misogynist' aimed at Jake Davison. He was only 22. That's pretty young in my book to be both of those things. I did watch a video with him in after the shootings and I have to say I felt sorry for him. There were six victims in the Plymouth shootings, not five. You can scream Incel and Violent Misogynist at a dead man all you like but you are giving your prejudices away a little too darn quickly.

He killed his mother first in an act of matricide and I suppose if you have killed the person who brought you into this world, then you have nothing left to lose. The tragedy unfolded with the killing of such a young girl and her father. Derrick Bird in Cumbria in 2010 began his attacks by killing his twin brother first. Michael Ryan in 1986 killed his own mother among the others that he shot.

Whatever their specific motivations were they must have been fundamentally desperate men. They must have entered the black hole of no return. Ryan shouted at a police officer after he was holed up in his old school "I should have stayed in bed"

What I would like to know as amateur psychologist "What was the tipping point for all three men?" What had they heard? What had they visualised? What was the particular moment that led them to pick up that gun for that point of no return.

After killing all those 'innocent' people they did the honourable thing and killed themselves. Even though there is no Capital Punishment in the UK, they would be looking at life means life after taking so many lives.

What I feel sparked so many 'Burn the Witch' outcries was the fact that so many people, especially women feel vulnerable after a year and a half of lockdown and the Sarah Everard case.

The Police have shown their incompetence in both cases but surely prevention is better than cure.

Can mass shootings be prevented? If the UK had the best Mental Health System in the world would they be able to prevent mass shootings?

Who actually needs a gun in the UK apart from the police?

These are questions I am asking into the ether but before condemning men for being so fundamentally unhappy and not having the emotional development to blame anybody apart from women, let us think about the dysfunctional home lives of these people. If they didn't have access to arms then they could do not do harm to innocent passers by.

I know that I have experienced blind rage. Anger so explosive that if I had access to a gun I wonder on occasion what I would have done. In that moment you are so unreasonable, so unhinged, that you are out of your mind.

Can you honestly say that you have not had thoughts of harming others when you have 'lost it'?

When tragedies happen, let us not be so quick to blame the perpetrator and call them the names that we want them to be. There is such a thing as a collective unconscious. We've all come out of a womb. Is it just too far of a leap of imagination to think about the triggering motivations of people at times like this or is it just best to fire out names and insults from the anonymity of a twitter account? It wont affect the deceased in any way and it won't dissuade others from similar actions in the future. What we as a society have to work out is how we can help our neighbour so that they don't end up in a situation where they are feeling so desperate? Can we do that? Is it possible?

We have to think of something to prevent innocent people being slaughtered in the future.

We are all human till we become inhuman.