Dire News From Cumbria...
Jun. 2nd, 2010 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endlessraritiesMy thoughts tonight go to the residents (both permanent and temporary) of Cumbria. It's the last place you'd expect a mass murderer to be running amok, but then that's usually the case, isn't it?
Why is it these losers can't just cut out the middleman and turn the gun on themselves first, without involving all these poor innocents who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time??
Hungerford, Dumblane, Whitehaven. Another place name is etched in collective folk memory. For all the wrong reasons...
Why is it these losers can't just cut out the middleman and turn the gun on themselves first, without involving all these poor innocents who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time??
Hungerford, Dumblane, Whitehaven. Another place name is etched in collective folk memory. For all the wrong reasons...
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Date: 2010-06-03 07:37 pm (UTC)He shot his twin brother first, and the family solicitor second. Then he went to the taxi-rank, where he may have had a grievance with another driver.
After that, he randomly picked off folk. But he seems to have gone for older people, though not exclusively. He avoided young children and mothers with young children...
I suppose there's some kind of twisted logic in there somewhere, buried very deep...