Charles Whitman - The killing of America

A cilp from the documentary "The killing of America". I know that they leave out a few detales, but it's still an ok clip.

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[johannjackunterweger]

Once again,Whitman was insane,he had mental illness.I agree with you if you say he did more "damages",it s a fact.He killed and injured more then eric and dylan.Anyway,we can t compare an insane man with 2 determinated,forward planning,and cold blooded teens killers.So,in my opinion they were more evil.And what about if propane bombs didn t fail? Victims could ve been hundreds.Finally,every massacre and every killer is different...

[jimswe]

@johannjackunterweger Welll the thing is that whitman just didnt simply suffer a "mental illness" Both eric, dylan AND whitman was determind, driven Forwardplanning and cold, yes the "bombs didnt go off" but they sill CHOSE stop STOP the massacre at 13 dead. even though eric and dylan could have killed many more, eric and dyland CHOSE to stop, but whitman DIDNT, he shot an 18 year old girl who was 8 months pregnant in the belly . he killed his own mother and wife , he killed stangers and friend

[johannjackunterweger]

Everything was clear in their minds,they chose 2 do it,they chose when,how,they planned even the details to be sure of killing a lot,even the fact that they let few people go is an evidence that they perfectly knew what they were doing.And they enyojed it,they "have fun"(Dylan Diary referred to the massacre).They had the possibility to finally decide against the massacre,they didn t.So they r 100% guilties.Instead Whitman didn t have this possibility,there was something wrong in his mind.

[jimswe]

@johannjackunterweger actually whitman DID have the possibilaty to stop it but he chose not to. nothing forced him to do it, he had also planed it out when and where down to the smallest detail, eric and dylan may have said they wanted to kill thousands of people but they chose to stop the massacre at 13 even though they could have killed WAY more people if they had continued, Im not saying eric and dylan arent evil, they were to fucked up little monsters. But not as fucked up and evil as charli

[johannjackunterweger]

In my previous comments i explained that Whitman in his letter seemed to be sorry 4 what he was going 2 do.He said "i didn t understand myself,i was supposed to be an intelligent reasonable young man...",he was out of control,there was something inside him that forced him to do it.So i think we couldn t say he was 100% responsable 4 what he did.He felt sorry but he couldn t stop.Eric and Dylan maybe chose to let few people go,but anyway they absolutely chose to do it.

[jimswe]

@johannjackunterweger whitman was 100 % responsible for what he did even if he couldnt really explain why, the reason goes back to his childhood and relationship to his father, but he was still 100% responsible for what he did, and there was nothing that foreced him to do it, He didnt seem to be so sorry in other letters and notes he wrote that night, he was more worried about money than the fact that he had just stabbed and beaten his mother and wife to death.

[newsfan139]

It's shocking to know that he basically confessed to his shrink that he was thinking of doing this and yet nothing was done to prevent it. I guess it is true: No one says anything until it's too late.

[TAFFTHC23456]

fucking legend, the original spree killer

[Moonsorrow15]

@tejanochris Bullshit

[JOSUE5401]

@johannjackunterweger My bad.

[johannjackunterweger]

@JOSUE5401 Infact,that s what i said.

[JOSUE5401]

@johannjackunterweger whitman diden't choose,he was driven to it.

[johannjackunterweger]

Instead Whitman massacre was an isolated case.Nothing similar ever occurred.

[johannjackunterweger]

You must consider also other aspects of the tragedies.Columbine has been an example 4 successives massacres like Virginia Tech,Red Lake,shootings in Germany and Finland.They were all imitations of Columbine.Eric and Dylan were idols 4 the next generation of shooters.Columbine signed the beginning of a new era of school violence.I think Eric and Dylan r a bit responsables also for that innocent victims.Are we sure that without their example we should ve see Virginia Tech and the other shootings?