Blaming the gun, within 24 hours, as usual

[nogods]

Anyone reading your critique of Navy's second letter would likely think you as ignorant of the subjects of which you speak as you imagine Navy being ignorant of when, or when not to, write a freakin' letter of his own volition, irrespective of your lacking-in-facts opinion of what he "probably" "needed" to do or not do.

Blues

No, only the mentally challenged would think so. Both probably and in fact as you have exhibited.

 

[Reba]

He was convicted in court today. Guilty on all 33 counts.

postandcourier.com | Post and Courier | Charleston, SC. Local News, Sports and Weather

 

[BluesStringer]

He was convicted in court today. Guilty on all 33 counts.

postandcourier.com | Post and Courier | Charleston, SC. Local News, Sports and Weather

Any predictions as to whether or not he will get the death penalty?

 

[Reba]

Any predictions as to whether or not he will get the death penalty?

Nope.

 

[Reba]

Update from the trial:

This is chilling:

FBI agent: Dylann Roof reached out to other white supremacists before church shooting | Church Shooting | postandcourier.com

Just some excerpts:

FBI agent: Dylann Roof reached out to other white supremacists before church shooting

. . . Prosecutors also introduced a disturbing jailhouse journal found in Roof cell just six weeks after the shooting in which he drew white supremacist symbols, doubled down on his racist ideologies and sought to set the record straight about his motivations and actions.

“I would like to make it crystal clear I do not regret what I did. I am not sorry. I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed,” he wrote.

Lauren Knapp, an intelligence officer with the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, told a federal jury that officials decided to search Roof's solitary cell after she came across the letter from the 22-year-old white supremacist while screening mail at the county jail.

The two-page letter stood out because it contained sections that did not appear to be in normal handwriting. She searched online and saw the writings were from a book related to the so-called "Werther effect," a term applied to suicide contagion.

In his cell, investigators found a batch of racist, xenophobic and homophobic writings and drawings that railed against Jews, Hispanics, blacks, gays and others. This new manifesto built on earlier writings he posted online just hours before the mass shooting. Roof wrote that he felt the need to complete his thoughts because he had been in a rush that day. . .

Roof also dismissed accounts that he had a troubled childhood. Being a child of divorce did not scar him, he stated. "I had everything I needed and then some," he wrote.

Roof cautioned people against seeking deeper meaning in his words or actions. For example, he stated that he never used drugs to drown his pain or self-medicate. "I used drugs to get high. There is no deeper meaning to this."

That, Roof said, is why he so dislikes psychology, which he belittled as a way for people to invent fictitious diseases to explain away actions.

"I also, like many other people, find it pleasurable to be sad," he wrote. "I get off on it."

From the impact statement by the son of one of the victims:

. . . The Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr. also was a wounded Army veteran who normally carried a pistol and had a concealed weapons permit. When his son heard about the shooting at Emanuel AME, he thought of that gun and his father’s protective nature.

“Why didn’t he protect everyone?” Simmons wondered.

When police released his father’s car from the crime scene, Simmons found the gun sitting on the front seat of his father’s car.

 

[Reba]

Roof got the death sentence.