'You Will All Know Who I Am,' Parkland Gunman Said in Video
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/us/nikolas-cruz
Law enforcement authorities have confirmed that the videos were recorded by Nikolas Cruz, a former student now facing 34 counts of premeditated murder and attempted murder in the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Even before the attack, Mr. Cruz had posted a comment on YouTube saying he wished to be a professional school shooter.
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He adds with a chuckle: Youll all know who I am. You are all going to die. At that point, he makes some sounds Pew! Pew! Pew! and adds, Cant wait.
In a second video, he provides more detail, describing his plan to take an Uber to travel to the school, walk up the stairs, get his AR from his bag an apparent reference to the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle used in the attack and shoot as many people as possible in the main courtyard of the school.
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I am nothing. I am no one, my life is meaningless, he said. With the power of the AR, you will know who I am, he said. Enough of everybody telling me Im an idiot and dumb ass.
Read more: New York Times
Yet another reminder of the highly premeditated nature of many of these mass murders.
catbyte
(34,326 posts)But I remember the names of his victims.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)With the power of the AR, you will know who I am!
benld74
(9,901 posts)Have fun
Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)but good taste demands that I refrain from going into detail.
maxsolomon
(33,232 posts)It links nearly all Mass Shootings in the US: maladjusted males achieving infamy through retribution for imagined wrongs. Usually with a heaping dose of Misogyny. The World will know my Name.
SOME men are probably always going to feel these emotions/impulses. The best way to prevent them from carrying out these plans is making firearm acquisition onerous and difficult.
With power comes responsibility.
Igel
(35,270 posts)And highly grievance-ridden.
All id, and ego in service of the id. Underdeveloped superego, but that's the way society says a healthy person's supposed to be. Liberated from those nasty constraints, well, at least the one's we don't like.
LudwigPastorius
(9,095 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Especially when they stay alive
ansible
(1,718 posts)The only bad news for them is no news to report on.
7962
(11,841 posts)Naming simple snow storms because it makes people tune in longer thinking the end of the world is near.
In another OP regarding the SCOTUS, someone pointed out that Thomas votes with Sotomayer far more often than not (the OP was about a 8-1 case). It was a response to someone else mentioning how shocked they were that those 2 had agreed on anything. I said "only dissent makes the news, nobody wants to cover agreement"
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)As impractical as your suggestion is, were it in place it would do little, and stop less.
7962
(11,841 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,138 posts)Ill never remember his name.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Difficult for me to grasp the lengths people will go simply to stand out and be noticed. Seems there's no real concept self-identity in these guys other than through the eyes of others.
As always, these little fellas reek of a self-indulgent oppression.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)because his god-given constitutional right to have some girl touch his peener was infringed upon
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)as you can see...