Bleach his hair and spike it up and you've got yourself a blond mohawk.
Posted at 2006-09-14 06:36:07 [PermaLink]Actually, most of the eyewitness reports I read describe him as having "black, slicked-back hair."
In the midst of a traumatic experience many people get details wrong. So the shooter has been described as white, which he isn't, and as wearing combat fatigues, when he was really in a long trenchcoat. Some also reported 2 or more gunmen when there was only one.
(Another reason why conflicting eyewitness reports from events such as 9/11 should be disregarded.)
Since the grassy knoll, if not beforehand, it seems lots of witnesses "see/hear" second gunmen. Same thing happened last Christmas when some guy shot up a shopping mall in the States; people said there were two or three or four guys, and these people sounded very convincing.
Eye/ear witnesses are notoriously unreliable it is true, but I wonder: why exactly? Some blame Dealy Plaza confusion on accoustics, but what about a shopping mall's/cafeteria's very different accoustics, and the number of people I saw interviewed last Christmas who _swore_ that an (imaginary) gunman pointed the gun right at them, was only a few feet away, etc?
FWIW - here is a Google cache of this creep's Goth website/blog. Link courtsey of LGF.
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The first link shows him with his knife and a photo of his gun.
I'm going to coin a name for it Kathy, how about 'The Bambi Syndrome'?
Posted at 2006-09-14 09:44:18 [PermaLink]Good catch on the eyball witness description and the geek in the Vampirefreeks web pix...wouldn't the MSM blush if they got the wrong "Gill" ;-)
As for me, I'm having a hell of a good time watching the MSM (in sequence): mess up the facts, roll in the blood, misrepresent similarities between Lapine and this nutter, grind their pro-registry axe, and generally sensationalize, promote hysteria and blow the entire issue out of rational perspective.
Lost in all this second coming of the 'Ecole Polytechnique speculative hysterics, is the fact that a swift, armed response saved many lives....by extention the obvious is down-played by the MSM..that is that this nutter picked his vicims and the venue to do his act of murder suicide precisely because it is a gun-free zone....also we were just lucky the cops were on the spot and had chased him into the college and dispatched his threat quickly....had they not been there I wonder if it dawns on the navel gazing hoplophobes in the MSM that a properly trained and armed security guard or College employee or private citizen could have accomplished the same swift response to an armed threat.....the bottom line is this was a perfect display of the defensive use of firearms and justifyable defensive violence....guns save lives...probably more than they take in the wrong hands.
No wonder they got the guy's description all over the map.
CBC interviewed a student who walked right past the shooter. The student was pretty upset as is to be expected of a 16 ish old girl.
When asked to describe him, she said he was tall, wearing a black trenchcoat and had a retarded haircut.
That clip was played back on our local news station later. The "retarded haircut" bit had been edited out.
Musn't let facts get in the way of political correctness. I suppose if she had said his haircut was "differently enabled", it would have passed with flying colours
I'm tellin' ya, I saw it with my own ears and heard it with my very own eyes!
When people are in a panic their senses narrow and focus only on those things which offer the possibility of escape. Everything on the periphery is dulled and blurred.
Perhaps that's why they're mistaken.
Sounds like the perp watched too many "Munsters" reruns....followed by "Dirty Harry" movies.
What a sad idiot.
Ralph; Thanks. That retarded haircut item is a keeper; probably the only bright spot. It's kind of ironic that even before/during/after his attack people are still ridiculing this bozo. A 16yr.old chic disses him...
Posted at 2006-09-14 14:47:52 [PermaLink]So have they blamed Americans yet?
Posted at 2006-09-14 16:19:53 [PermaLink]Better yet, where are the press releases from the Canadian Goth Association fearing a backlash against the Goths? I also some how doubt the MSM will even mention his politics.
Posted at 2006-09-14 16:49:42 [PermaLink]John - I'm sad for Gill. The victims, and their families, but for Gill too and for his family.
Kathy:
My experience under live fire* is that one hears pulse waves ("shots") that include clear directional echoes last, the original muzzle blast second and the pulse from a passing super-sonic bullet first if the distance is over fifty yards or so. There is also the "whack" of the bullet into something hard like a wall that can sound like a shot. Thing is, in a urban or hilly area, one shot can deliver three or more distinct directional signals. It can be very confusing, (dangerously so) depending upon the strength of the muzzle impulse, even for police and others trained under similar conditions.
(* target range duty under a berm.)
I hope this guy's victims pull through.