The guy's name is Chris Mintz, not Harper Whatever. Just wanted to clarify that with you.
With the church shooting, it was nothing but pure racism and the desire for anonymity. He wasn't mentally unstable. Neither was the shooter in Oregon.
It’s not about mental illness: The big lie that always follows mass shootings by white males - Salon.com
I absolutely love everything in this article, although to dismiss outright that absolutely none of the shooters had mental illness isn't fair, I don't think.
Just because there aren't records or files anywhere of a child having a mental illness doesn't mean they don't have them. I struggled with depression and anxiety as a kid and it got much much worse in high school (bullying). My nickname at the Christian school I went to my freshman & sophomore years of high school was largely "Columbine". I was a freshman when it happened and being stuck with that title really did a number on me, along with all those years in elementary school being made fun of for literally everything.
The teachers never did anything to stop it and I was too ashamed to tell anyone. We had mandatory pep rallies after school on Fridays down on the football field. One afternoon, as we were all going back up to get our stuff and go home, 2 of my classmates clothes-lined me and nearly dislocated my shoulder. Again, nothing. The last day of my sophomore year, I got home and cried for so many hours to my sister begging her to let me go to a different school. She did, of course, and I switched to public school- which turned out to be the decision I should've made as a freshman. But, the damage had been done. I didn't care anymore. My pot intake increased (something I started at age 12 'cuz my brother is a douche), I started drinking, literally never did my homework, cut classes, went in stoned... The bullying mixed with the fact that I was behind 4 credits kinda screwed me. I finally just gave up and dropped out.
I'm over it now, but it still really makes me sad. I have a HS diploma now (a real one, not a GED. With a 3.62 GPA), but as a kid I'd always been excited to go to college like my sister and be an AOII like her and have that whole experience and I didn't get it.
It was after I started public school and became more withdrawn that she started making me go to therapy and be on medication. I never said anything. So yeah. Just because a kid hasn't been diagnosed doesn't mean he doesn't have it.
My understanding of Columbine was that they were bullied as well, but not to like any extreme degrees.
I've found this article on the subject from 2004:
At last we know why the Columbine killers did it.
Anywho. I'm very very very glad that the name of the shooter nor his picture have been released. It makes me beyond happy. I don't think these people should -ever- be given a name or a picture. They don't deserve it. I don't want to know about that man. I want to know about Chris and the victims. And I think that if the media continues with this trend, maybe, just -maybe-, these mass shootings could decrease a bit.
This man shot those people purely for the notoriety. He said it himself. I saw on Facebook that he was screaming "GIMME DEM DANK MEMES!" as he was opening fire on those people (this kind of made me chuckle, I couldn't help it) and that police think 4Chan had something to do with it. A friend further confirmed that they might not be entirely wrong. I'll post the screenshot he sent me in a little bit.