Okay, I've read a slew of articles on this incident and I have to say, those with big, heroic ideas if
they were on that bus are, IMO, full of
it. I am a big guy and if I was on that bus, I'd make more of a point of helping my fellow passengers get out than doing my best to be the next
victim.
One guy. One fellow passenger, in one of the articles I read, turned to another guy and said "C'mon, let's get this guy!" and what did the guy he
asked for help do? He beat feet outta there. What did the "hero" do? Followed very close on the other guys heels getting the hell away from the,
reportedly, big, crewcut-wearing, asian-ish guy with a freaking short sword of a knife going stab-happy on some young guy!
Fight or flight? Preserve your own existance? Live to fight another day? Call it what you want, but, unless the escape route is un-passable, flight
is the obvious action. Self preservation. It's not weak, it's smart.
The more I read about the incident and the attacker, the more it pushes me towards being an incident of Mind Control. There just seems to be more and
more incidents just like this, where a man just goes blankly and quietly into kill mode. I think if he had a gun, there would have been more deaths,
as well. Since they got him alive and he wasn't shot by the RCMP, we have a chance to hear his "story" and learn more about what triggered him.
I'm not so sickened by this incident. That's kinda sadder than the incident itself, to me. I've lived through Gacy, Dahmer, Ramirez, Columbine,
Virginia Tech, N. Illinois University, L.A. Shootout, OKC, 9-11, Mt St. Helens, O.J. Simpson, The Green River Killer, etc. and I'm getting less
affected by it all. It's just typical news now. There are people I've known and hung out with that are in prison for murder. There are people I've
known and hung out with that have been murdered themselves. It affects me less and less.
So, in effect, I'm focussing on the why and how come in this case. I'm not going to focus at all on the gruesomeness of it. It would be just a
sensationalist feeder anyway.
Eek, I ramble,
Cuhail