Wrong?

Why would it be wrong?

The only problem is if people forget that they're just speculating and start taking their hypthesizations for fact before the facts are known.

It's starting to look like the problem with that shooter is that he was never cut out for the military to begin with... one of those people who does it because he thinks it's an easy career option... and then freaks when he finds out he might actually have to go into combat.

In this particular case, it's starting to look like his imagination warped it into a conflict based upon Crusaderistic Christian-versus-Islam thinking, which it's not, but which lots of Christians are confused about as well, and then the cake was iced by the fact that he was a psychologist.

It's known that half the time people become psychologists because they themselves are mentally confounded by the workings of their own head, so they study psychology in order to try and get a grip on their own mind, such that half the time they're as nutty as their patients, and it looks like he was one of those.

Now you just watch how the dumb-Christian factions in America will take off on blaming his behavior on his religion, rather than because he was a nutty psychologist who was only in the army because he thought it was an easy career decision, and who freaked when he found out he was actually going to have to go into combat.

What do you want to bet that if they check his desk or medicine cabinet or locker they find a plethora of pharmaceuticals that his license is supposed to entitle him to prescribe to patients only, and what do you want to bet he was off his meds?

Is what I just did equate to what you were talking about when you said "speculate about motives"?

It didn't feel wrong at all.

But I know it's speculation... does the reader?

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