Thursday, September 23, 2021

Shooting Still in the News

 If you watched public TV last night (either ARD or ZDF) in Germany.....you kinda noticed the top topic as being this gas station killing in Idar-Oberstein (Pfalz) from Saturday evening.  The background to this event?  

49-year old German guy walks into a gas station....no Covid mask on....the 20-year old gas station clerk asks him to mask-up.....guy refuses.  Things go quickly into a spiral, and the older customer pulls out a pistol....killing the clerk.  

The public TV version of the event?  Far right-wing extremist at work, and just another example of how the anti-vax crowd are being developed as 'threats'.

Drug-testing the murder suspect, or conducting a mental eval?  Well....no one has said that yet, but I'd generally go and expect the mental eval to be a minimum.

It is an odd trend with public TV over the past couple of years....where anything of a leftwing tendency involving violence....gets minimal mention or hype, but rightwing action needs public attention.  Most of the radical Muslim events now?  They all quickly lead to a mental eval suggestion and some chatter over paranoid schizophrenia.  I would even go and suggest it's pretty easy to write the news script for a radical terror attack and 'stamp' the suspect having schizophrenia.  

This Idar-Oberstein guy potentially having some level of schizophrenia?  It wouldn't shock me if a doctor checked the guy out and he was diagnosed.  He may have been on a schizophrenia 'trip' for the past two decades.  Using alcohol to mask the problems?  That's a general trend with some of these folks.  

The gun connection?  Still openly discussed.....it doesn't appear that he had a license to own a gun....so where did it come from?  If he couldn't legally own a gun....why?  

As for anti-vaxers being mostly rightwing?  Where's the statistical data to back this up?  You could have leftwingers as anti-vax folks as well.  

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