Holy crap, that was the best article about this tragedy I've seen yet. I'll bet the other sorry papers in this town are kicking themselves for not getting an interview with that guy.

"Brendan and I". "Me and Brendan" is not an alternate; it's just wrong. Think "Me worked all weekend".

Great work Josh and Brendan.

Thanks.

Damn, he sounds so much like Huff.

There are THOUSANDS of these losers walking around, drifting in and out of crappy jobs and crappier apartments, hopelessly unattractive to (sane) women, with no engagement with the world. Sooner or later some percentage of them are going to "go off" (a puff of wind is all it will take) and start thinking about firearms -- because every American male has somewhere in the back or the front of his mind a psychosexual relationship with the idea of THE GUN. Guns turn them on.

The image of the almost empty apartment littered with refuse, with a "Sith" poster on the wall -- emblem of blanked-out culture, is a powerful one. This Rennert (any relation to weatherman Jeff?) doesn't sound too stable himself. None of these people read books or participate in their culture. They live next door to you.

Anybody got any ideas on how to engage these people? How to prevent them from "throwing it all away" and killing people?

After reading this article he sounds more like a mysogenist than an anti-semite.

Congrats. You're doing a much better job in constructing this criminal identity than you did with Huff. We need details of the rooms where they lived, and their lives. The most important thing to construct is "not one of us".

The forceful marginalization of deviant behavior by public discourse is the job of writers in commercial media. Besides selling cigarettes, you must project forms of covert power for the corporations and government.

The idea must be presented to the public that the unemployed, the cleaning people, those who deliver pizza to our condos, those whose sexual practices differ from ours are dangerous. These ideas, being considered undeniable "truths", define our particular way of seeing the world, and the particular way of life associated with our "truths" becomes normalized.

The ranks of the privleged have produced as many murderers as any other social class, and many of the privleged do nothing but lounge about and play video games. We must normalize the idle behavior of the privleged classes while using the commercial media for domination of the poor and unemployed through constructing deviant identities.

Our worlds problems today are not the oil corporations making a killing off war. That's not getting away with murder. Instead we must fear those who are not working to pay off cars and condos, those who spend their time reading and thinking about the world. Pizza delivery and having time to read should be a crime.

Have you ever considered the possibility that perhaps the reason those of us on the left haven't been able to connect to Americans on the street is this kind of snooty, condescending, needlessly polemical approach? The article simply offered a psychological approach to the shooting- an act that should be condemned regardless of why it was carried out. It doesn't deny that this kind of pathology exists in the rest of society/societies, and nor does it claim that the shooter is that much different than anyone else. I don't understand how you can claim this article is talking down to the unemployed or the sexually frustrated- it's simply reporting. Sure, our society is sick at its core. If anything, this killing is a manifestation of that. But it's still an unreasonable act- and it doesn't matter if the whole war in Lebanon also happens to be an unreasonable act. Both should be condemned.

Determining the psychology of killers will prevent murders. Compare Huff, our new murderer, and other unemployed people and you can draw scientific parallels. Pizza delivery drivers are often sexually frustrated loners longing to be accepted into the in crowd. Affluent, employed people rarely commit crimes, and even when they are accused can prove themselves innocent. It is the poor, unemployed, and underclass that gives me the creeps. Why don't these rural losers from Pasco stay in their own towns and kill each other?

I went to high school with Naveed. We often sat at the same table at lunch throughout my Sophomore year (91-92). It was a large group kind of setting, some of the less famous football players (Naveed was one of them), a few of their closer friends, and usually a small part of the wrestling team. It wasn't a tight knit bunch at all. There were individual friendships that were close, but the group overall was loosely associated with each other.

My memories of Naveed were that he laughed quite often, joked with the group and seemed to always have a smile on his face. He seemed driven to a slacker like me, and took his academics way more seriously than I did.

When I heard from the Seattle papers I told them we weren't close...even after sitting near each other for 9 months of lunches, jokes, and the normal high school kid stuff. But I never would have thought Naveed was capable of something extreme. He was a friendly, likable guy. What a shame.

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