There can hardly be a situation deserving the question Dr Phil keeps repeating , "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" than this. It needs to be screamed through bullhorns all over the country. They easily give that power to take life with just a small movement of a finger and do that repeatedly then wonder what went wrong every time a mass murder happens.
Although hate and/or discrimination seems to be the reason behind that mass killing in that church on its face, regardless of the question of right and wrong, does it look like that the "suspect" has that kind of depth in that believe? Or does it look more like a shallow thing strengthened by the power to act on it? Does it look like that absent the convenience of a gun he would still have attacked that church to make whatever point he supposedly wanted to make?
And the acting like being in a playful state was even clearer with that shooting in Colorado where the "suspect" suddenly substituted himself for an action movie, with a title stating that the main character "Rises", in a movie theater and started shooting the attendees. Even if we want to ignore that, for close to three years now, did anyone hear any reason for that attack?
So, we should be careful and not pretend that we confuse actions where belief makes use of power with actions where power makes use of apparent believe.
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