An ongoing “domestic situation”
So maybe it wasn’t that the guy with the big gun wasn’t cray cray after all, despite Trump’s confident assertion that it was. (Where did he get that, by the way? Law enforcement wasn’t saying that, the media wasn’t saying that. Did Trump have Special Inside Presidential Intelligence about it? Or was he just talking at random as usual because he wanted us to shut up about guns.) It maybe was that he had a big mad for his mother-in-law. Angry domineering men often do, I think. Sheds a whole new light on all those mother-in-law jokes, doesn’t it. (Actually no, it doesn’t – it sheds the same old light. Mother-in-law jokes are classic misogyny. Why mother-in-law and not father-in-law? Oh, you know – because they’re too old to fuck, and they’re all bitches.)
The massacre of more than two dozen churchgoers — the youngest of whom was just 18 months old — occurred amid an ongoing “domestic situation” involving the gunman and his relatives, some of whom had attended the church, law enforcement officials said Monday.
While authorities have not publicly identified a motive for the attack, they emphasized that the shooting did not appear to be fueled by racial or religious issues, as has been the case with other rampages at U.S. houses of worship. Instead, they pointed to the gunman’s issues with his relatives, saying Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, had been sending “threatening texts” to his mother-in-law, who was not at the First Baptist Church when he opened fire on the congregation Sunday morning.
I suppose she wasn’t entirely friendly toward him because of the way he abused her daughter? Women are so annoying, aren’t they?
Precisely how Kelley obtained his guns remained a key question for investigators. Kelley had been court-martialed in 2012 and sentenced to a year in military prison for assaulting his then-spouse and her child, making him part of a long line of mass attackers or suspects with domestic violence in their pasts. He was reduced in rank and released with a bad-conduct discharge in 2014.
So if you’re mad at your mother-in-law, the thing to do is shoot up a church full of people?
Too much anger.
It’s interesting how many times these attacks happen, and they trot out people to talk about how unexpected this was, how nice he was, what a quiet boy, never causing any harm. Dig further, and you often find domestic violence. And I can’t believe you can have a known record of domestic violence without at least SOMEONE knowing about it, but they’re all, oh, nice boy, and all that. Perhaps they don’t count wife abuse as working against his being nice? She probably deserved it, right?
Misogyny seems to be behind so much of what’s wrong with the world. Referencing the recent scandals in Hollywood and Oxford, the various ways of keeping women controlled around the world, and my own personal experiences of dealing with “enlightened” sexism, I conclude that misogyny permeates everything to some degree or another.
And…he taught Bible studies.