It's looking a lot like a Hate Crime (Theater Shooting)

[itsrobert]

Seems like most of the victims were female (any male victims?). Both killed were women. Was he deliberately targeting women?


more:

"Whatever he wanted to talk about, it would generate calls,” said Floyd. “He was anti-abortion. The best I can recall, Rusty had an issue with feminine rights. He was opposed to women having a say in anything. You could talk with him a few minutes, and you would know he had a high IQ but there was a lot missing with him.”"


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/07/24/tv-hosts-remember-alleged-lafayette-gunman-as-anti-tax-anti-feminist-gadfly/?postshare=7821437760547990

[Dwayne Hicks]

1. Also

He was a tea party extremist.....Seems a lot of these tea party types are violent criminals.

[drm604]

2. What was the movie?

Was it one that women are more likely than men to attend? I'm not dissing your hypothesis, just trying to rule out other possibilities.

[RandySF]

3. Trainwreck

[drm604]

5. I had to google it.

Is Amy Schumer popular with women?

[itsrobert]

6. Very popular

Look at the hashtag #trainwreck on twitter. Many women posting photos of themselves and friends attending the movie.

[arcane1]

7. She has a very refreshing anti-misogynist angle to her humor.

Though I know nothing about this movie. If he had an MRA stick up his ass, I could see how he might think her fans are good targets. Just speculating at the moment.

Here is a funny example of her work:

[lapislzi]

10. 0% likely that this choice was accidental

This was no coincidence. Killer was making a very public point about what he thought should happen to sexually assertive women. No accidents.

[RandySF]

11. It's hard to say.

The Colorado theatre shooter chose the Batman movie because it was going to be crowded. He could have picked out the movie with the longer line.

[riderinthestorm]

12. No! He had a public record of forcefully, publicly, demonizing women

he also had domestic violence issues with the women in his life.

It's not hard to say that this was a hate crime when you combine it with his other rants and writings.

[itsrobert]

4. Probably a man who hates strong women

He probably chose the movie because there would be more women "targets" in attendance.

[Igel]

9. Doesn't necessary matter who was likely to attend.

Matters who attended. If it was mostly female audience, you'd expect "mostly female" deaths.

The distribution of sexes for the wounded might say something.


If it was a movie that women were more likely to attend, we'd have to show that he knew this ahead of time. Otherwise we're looking for evidence to support our hypothesis--which is fine, when you're trying to form a hypothesis. But the hypothesis isn't proved at that point. It's formalized and testable.

Too many people assume that if there's enough evidence for a hypothesis then we've reached a conclusion. That's what the faithful do, not the critical thinkers.


And there's always the chance that an explicit statement of intent will come along, rather than having us comb through and read the Tea (party) leaves.

[Warpy]

8. Women are the group exempted from hate crimes legislation

because, hey, everybody hates women!

Yeah, it seems he targeted a chick flick.

I'd expect nothing less from an ugly, hate filled, Tea Party kinda guy.