re: Shooting at church in white settlement,TX

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He was dead as he fell. Look at the video again, you can see the spray of blood from that poor man get blasted onto the wall to his left. A split second later he falls.

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That might have been the BB’s from the shotgun

Nothing has been said yet about a motive.

Just saw the video. That is scary shite.

Hell of a shot by the Good Samaritan.

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Do mentally ill people have motives? All the comments about the shooter indicate that he was just another crazy person with access to guns. Maybe a schizophrenic with a head full of imagined demons?

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I suspect the lines are blurred on this

I imagine a lot of mentally ill or emotionally disturbed people get involved in radical causes. Some people freak out when you talk about this because they think you're downplaying the extremist element (Islam, etc.). But the reality is we should be talking about how fringe radical movements can exploit the deficiencies of people like that. It doesn't make the movement any less culpable or dangerous.

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I imagine a lot of mentally ill or emotionally disturbed people get involved in radical causes. Some people freak out when you talk about this because they think you're downplaying the extremist element (Islam, etc.). But the reality is we should be talking about how fringe radical movements can exploit the deficiencies of people like that. It doesn't make the movement any less culpable or dangerous.

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Was thinking about that this morning. Also a lot of radical causes, have issues with the Christian Church.
Someone who is easily manipulated can be turned into a time bomb.

If that would have been a AA church and that was the first pic of the shooter things would be a lot different right now, believe dat.

Why in the hell was he on the streets?

I noticed on video one lady almost jumping over people to get to back where victims were, and I am guessing after reading an article it was the daughter interviewed in this article (the deacon first approached by killer I think who pointed out something to killer).
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/daughter-of-deacon-shot-and-killed-during-church-service-speaks-out/2283486/

I don't think he was part of security team & was standing as part of helping with communion as a deacon, and that and what was being said by killer may be why the security team member that was shot first continued to draw even as he had to know shooter saw him doing so (maybe hoping for some hesitation by shooter or maybe to draw his attention away from other guy or both).

I have not seen anything official on the other victim that was drawing weapon as part of security team except for the below from the guy who took out the killer.

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Wilson identified the second church member who died in the shooting as Richard White. He said White's wife worked at the church and that his concern going forward was for the "loss or Rich and Tony and their families."

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That fricker messed with the wrong church. There was like people with weapons drawn after the shooter went down.

Such a great shot by the hero though. He needs a medal. He saved so many lives.

I know my church questioned if we should began having some members armed in cases of something like this. I think this video should remove all doubts of that.