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Judi Lynn

(160,227 posts)
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 06:53 PM Jan 2016

Louisiana theater shooter's journal calls US a 'filth farm'

Source: Associated Press

Louisiana theater shooter's journal calls US a 'filth farm'

Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

Updated 4:49 pm, Wednesday, January 13, 2016



BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The mentally unstable gunman who shot up a Louisiana movie theater last summer left a rambling, hate-filled journal in which called the U.S. a "filth farm," railed against women, gays and blacks, and thanked a man accused of killing nine churchgoers in South Carolina for his "wake up call."

The hand-written, 40-page journal released Wednesday doesn't explain why John Russell Houser decided to kill two people and wound nine at a screening of "Trainwreck" last July 23. He didn't say a word as he opened fire, killing Jillian Johnson, a 33-year-old musician and business owner, and Mayci Breaux, a 21-year-old student. He died from his own gun before anyone could question him.

But the contents suggest Houser expected to die, and knew others would read the words he left in his room at a Motel 6. Shortly before the shooting, Houser wrote on the last page that he was leaving the journal "in hopes of truth, my death all but assured."

Houser, a 59-year-old drifter, also shared his "random thoughts" on politics, the news media, the presidential race, the Ten Commandments, his favorite movies and music and his view of the future.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/science/article/Theater-shooter-thanks-man-accused-of-black-6756572.php

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Louisiana theater shooter's journal calls US a 'filth farm' (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2016 OP
Why do these sickos need to take others with them? Cassiopeia Jan 2016 #1
Where O Where in the World would he get this mindset from? Midnight Writer Jan 2016 #2

Cassiopeia

(2,603 posts)
1. Why do these sickos need to take others with them?
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 06:55 PM
Jan 2016

Why can't they just self terminate and leave everyone else out of it, other than the cleanup of course.

Midnight Writer

(21,555 posts)
2. Where O Where in the World would he get this mindset from?
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 03:11 AM
Jan 2016

I guess he is just another "lone nut". Well, thank God he is not another one of those radicalized Muslims.

Then I would be afraid.

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