You don’t see this everyday.

Telemundo:

Relatives of victims of the massacre in Uvalde confront the mother of the shooter in the middle of the street.

Several of them got out of their cars, confronted the woman and berated her for what her son did after breaking into Robb Elementary School. "It wasn't my fault, I'm tired of them coming for me," she replied, her voice cracking with emotion.

Hard not to feel bad for the woman after watching the video. If it’s any condolences to the mother, I don’t even remember her son’s name at this point.

What’s noteworthy is that none of the shooters in recent memory have been even mildly interesting. It’s always some young guy in a mugshot looking three sheets to the wind on a big pharma cocktail.

With “terrorism” as its typically understood, one can look at those situations and understand that the terrorist has a larger political aim. Typically there is some particular ideology or authority figure you can trace the terrorist ideology back to, be it a religious thing, a racial or ethnic or national thing — there is usually some kind of “objective” to their crimes.

However, all the shooters in recent memory have just been unhinged lunatics who attack unarmed and innocent people. More and more, there’s not even an alleged purpose to their actions. It’s never even claimed that the men were seeking fame.

Even the ones who have, allegedly, written “manifestos” are always pure nonsense, incredibly basic copy+paste stuff with nothing insightful whatsoever.

I’m old enough to remember when killers said interesting things while they were throwing their lives away.

Most of these recent shooter-uppers seem to be very much driven by the copycat effect with depressed teens seeking to get 15 minutes of fame. Reinforcing this incentive, after every shooting you see Democrat politicians immediately dancing on the graves of the dead in shameless power grab attempts.

It’s all very tiresome, and nobody is interested in debating whether or not we lose our rights when someone taking SSRI’s flies off the handle. Our rights are not up for debate, much less a vote.

Hopefully these would-be shooters start figuring out what it really means to be a rebel in the current year.