November 1, 2002
8:16 PM   Subscribe

Another post-linked shooting. Is it not a little worrying that there are murders happening across the US that only make headlines because they happen to have been committed by a famous serial killer ? USAians seem to be inured to death at both ends of the spectrum: Random and Judicial.
posted by godidog (8 comments total)

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i don't find it very worrying that there happen to be murders happening in this country that i don't know about.
posted by luckyclone at 8:39 PM on November 1, 2002


When you said "post-linked," I cringed instinctively, thinking you were talking about some Metafilter rule I might have broken.
posted by inksyndicate at 8:56 PM on November 1, 2002


Like, say, posting a CNN story about an ongoing news event?
posted by yhbc at 8:58 PM on November 1, 2002


Matthowie sez: "Yay! The sniper case looks closed. Got something sniper related? Put it here, instead of anything new, thanks."
posted by owillis at 8:58 PM on November 1, 2002


I still think random killings are the exception, not the rule. People kill out of impulse without forethought, 95% of the time, and then usually a friend or loved one. The exception just does not prove the rule. There are no Hannibla Lecters but only subnormal, borderline Jeffery Dahmers--and, now, John Muhammads, who, as it turns out, was just as dull witted. Consider the Tylenol poisonings--you and I could think of a thousand ways to commit traceless murder via the grocery vegetable section.. but we don't. Why exactly I don't know, but we don't. So, maybe most people, if not all that good, are, at least, not all that bad.
posted by y2karl at 9:22 PM on November 1, 2002


Memo to self: Don't go shopping with Karl.
posted by yhbc at 9:24 PM on November 1, 2002


I'm a nice guy: be grateful--be very very grateful.
posted by y2karl at 9:43 PM on November 1, 2002


Just in!! Ballistics tests on JFK bullet fragment point to DC sniper!
(Also, hair and fingerprint matching Jimmy Hoffa found in Blue Caprice. Amelia Erhart linkage still pending.)
posted by HTuttle at 10:07 PM on November 1, 2002


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