“This was, quite frankly, a maniac who decided he wanted to take lives,”

Copycat shooter with a manifesto, armed with the usual kit: A plate carrier, an AR-15, and a Glock.

While I can see this is a racially motivated shooting, I think this pattern indicates some deeper… suicidal, martyrdom ideology. The intent includes the suicide. It’s suicidally motivated, too. These plans include the repetitive messaging of a newsfeed marching down the list of mass shootings by scared whitr supremacists. Racial killing, suicide, manifesto, and the date makes it a copycat killing. Is he truly a maniac, if so many are falling into this same set of cowardly cries for help?

I feel no sympathy for the dead shooter. But I stare into the abyss, feeling I must empathize with the scared white supremacist who does this next.

Stochastic Terrorism (wiki)

I must empathize with the scared white supremacist who does this next.

Really, though? Conservatives do no empathize with you. They see empathy as a weakness to exploit. Do not empathize with them unless you’d like to become their next victim.

The only possible way to try to prevent it is to try and talk them down before hand.

I mean, aside from the obvious gun legislation that won’t happen

Or you stop spying how many times people go to toilet and start using the NSA resources to track down and put in prison those people posting in kiwifarms and other terrorist organisations’ forums.