#5 From deeper in the article:
Police said "the most notable discovery" on the phone was a photo of a handwritten note taken on April 9 2020, which appeared to be a suicide note written by Sapirman.
That note begins with, "My final thoughts on paper" and goes on to say, "I’m a sociopath. I want to hurt people." Police said the note alludes to Sapirman shooting himself with a shotgun, with the explanation that "This was the result of my issues: mental instability, depression, frustration, and sexual isolation."
Police said that Sapirman’s apparent suicide note more than two years before the shooting "leads us to believe that Sapirman’s "homicidal and suicidal thoughts had been manifesting for years."
There is a strong affinity among the mentally ill for the cant of totalitarianism, whether Nazi, Marxist and variations, eco-terrorism, and so forth. Once the fact of insanity is established, in my opinion, the exact philosophy chosen is meaningless.
But it’s easier to fuss about the evils of Nazism — definitely evil, I’m not trying to claim otherwise — than the fact that the West’s paradigm for dealing with the mentally ill among us might as well have been designed to sacrifice random passers by (or immediate family members) to sudden death at the hands of a madman simply because we as a society are no longer willing to do the work to figure out who needs to be kept separate — whether or not forcibly treated — in order to protect both that untreated young man and those he could no longer resist the impulse to kill. |
[IsraelTimes] Police find images of Hitler and ’extremely graphic’ videos of previous mass killings on Jonathan Douglas Sapirman’s device