Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the man accused of killing 10 people at at the King Soopers store in Boulder, Colorado, supermarket (March 22, 2021) faces 10 charges of first-degree murder for this heinous terroristic act. Nine civilians and the courageous police officer Eric Talley, who first answered the call, were killed in this attack.
We still don’t know the motivation for the shooting, but demands for gun control are already been made before the facts are known. The Democrats and their gun prohibitionist allies in the media capitalize on every tragedy to push their citizen disarmament agenda.
We are only beginning to study psychopathy and unprovoked human aggression with biochemical and genetic markers, radioisotopes, and neuroimaging techniques. Much work still needs to be done with these techniques to add to what we know from neuropsychiatry and clinical psychology. These studies need to be carried out in a hurry.
In my investigations of mass shootings and their media reporting, I believe these shooters are either deeply deranged individuals, prone to criminal insanity, who seek celebrity status, even if achieving it ends with their death; or they are disturbed or malcontented persons who have a bone to pick with society and blame others for their personal failures and shortcomings in life. They take it upon themselves to hunt down and kill innocent victims to find deadly outlets for their pent up resentment, satisfy their own sense of dissatisfaction, and even fulfill their morbid fantasies in the process.
The public health model for the study of gun violence was applied — or rather, misapplied — for over three decades and was found wanting, riddled with faulty, preordained, politicized gun research masquerading as science.
Mental health research needs to be intensified with a multidisciplinary approach in the study of mass shootings, including not only psychologists, but also sociologists and criminologists. Just the fact that we stigmatize the shootings as a mental disorder, subject to medical investigation, may serve as deterrence to those seeking notoriety while inflicting punishment on society for their personal failures.
Mass shooting deaths, enormous in human pain and suffering and tragic as they are, represent approximately 1 percent of all homicides in the U.S. The 2017 infamous Republican congressional baseball practice shooting in which House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot and wounded along with three other people, represent clearly a political crime. Others are carried out by deranged madmen as previously mentioned.
But was this last mass shooting in Boulder the work of a deranged madman or a political terrorist? With the name as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, we must wonder if this was a terroristic, Jihad-inspired mass murder.
Alissa’s motives are yet to be ascertained. Yet, these shootings, whether motivated by derangement or terrorism —which in our day is almost always Islamic terrorism inspired by jihad, whether home grown or foreign — must be thoroughly investigated before knee jerk responses to civilian disarmament are elicited.
Regardless of the motive, before we call for more gun control, which affects the law-abiding citizens disproportionally more than criminals and madmen, we need to find ways to identify these deranged individuals before they strike. The simple parroted solution of the gun prohibitionist movement — i.e., banning assault weapons and more gun control — is not the answer. We have had plenty of guns in American society; and yet, this type of mass murder at one time was very uncommon.
And yet, Colorado legislators are furiously calling for more stringent gun control laws before all the facts are known.
Reportedly Alissa used a Ruger AR-556 pistol during the shooting. This type of gun supposedly would have been banned under the Boulder city law enacted in 2018. To add drama to the this act, the ban had been overturned by a local judge just days before the attack because it violated a 2003 state law that prohibit municipalities from passing such ordinances in contravention to state law.
Among the proposed solutions, Colorado lawmakers have called for another statewide ban of “assault weapon” (allegedly like the one used in the Boulder attack), as well as more draconian firearms storage laws and more requirements in reporting lost or stolen guns.
We must find effective alternative mental health and law enforcement solutions to mass shootings, whether carried out by madmen or terrorists, without curtailing the God-given rights of citizens and ending freedom in pursuing false security.
Miguel A. Faria, M.D., is Associate Editor in Chief in socioeconomics, politics, medicine, and world affairs of Surgical Neurology International (SNI). He was appointed and served at the behest of President George W. Bush as member of the Injury Research Grant Review Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2002-2005. His recently released book is America, Guns, and Freedom: A Journey Into Politics and the Public Health & Gun Control Movements (2019).
“Mental health research needs to be intensified with a multidisciplinary approach in the study of mass shootings”. A mental health approach??????? What a joke. We need more law and order in society and we need a lot less psychiatrists and a lot less social workers. The psychiatrists and social workers make up excuses for every crime that criminals commit. According to these clowns, rapists have a “disease”, criminals have a “disease”, drug users have a “disease”. I am sick and tired of this garbage where anyone who does evil things in society or anyone who is stupid and takes drugs, is “mentally ill”. People that do evil things, like commit crimes are immoral, they do not have a “disease”. People that take drugs like heroin, cocaine or meth are stupid, because anyone with half a brain knows that drugs can destroy your body or kill you. Liberals are excuse makers, plain and simple!!!!!!!!
You are correct. These mass killers need to be swiftly tried, convicted, sentenced to death and then quickly executed. Nikolas Cruz, the Marjorie Stoneman HS killer has yet to go to trial 3 years after his murder spree. His trial slated to start June 2020 was indefinitely postponed due to COVID. Patrick Wood Crusius, the El Paso Walmart shooter who killed 23 and wounded another 23 on August 3, 2019 also has yet to go to trial. In these instances where there is absolutely no doubt as to their guilt. why are they still alive?
That’s all true, but he’s keeping his roommate, Bubba, relaxed and not starting any riots.
MAYBE if we stopped CODDLING The insane, we’d not be SEEING these nutters do shootings!
AND HOW many more ******* times, must a shooter “BE KNOWN to the FBI/DOJ PRIOR< and nothing flag him/her, when they get their backround checks done, for the guns they legally buy", BEFORE WE START fining the hell/charging as accessories, THOSE WORKING for those organizations!?
The insane left-wing thinking is a self destructive suicide mission to end civilization. They tolerate and coddle the insane killer while at the same time they punish, intimidate and silence the law abiding and leads them like lambs to slaughter.
PITY its everyone that suffers, from their stupidity, NOT JUST THEM.
Since these come at the most critical moments, does it seem like a possible false flag event orchestrated by persons unknown?
For what is worth, Dr Faria wrote in another article, “Mass shooting derangement (MSD) syndrome is a psychopathic-sociopathic character disorder created by the politically correct nonsense and the progressive modern liberalism (socialism) of the last several decades, particularly since the 1990s. The perpetrators who survive need to know that they would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, face capital punishment, or be locked away in a mental facility for life. And that they will also be stigmatized and studied as the homicidal freaks of nature they are.” https://www.gopusa.com/the-mass-shooting-derangement-msd-syndrome-update-2019/
They are trying to understand why this happened.
Here’s a clue:
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, an immigrant jihadist from the Middle East decided to read the Koran one day and found out that it says he must kill non-muslims. They call it “Radicalism”.
Note, not ONE reporter, even those on fox, have said a damn thing about his ‘possible muslim radicalisation leanings’.. ALMOST like they are all too SCARED to go there.
The jihadi that unfortunately was not put down like a rabid dog while still at the store is of Syrian descent and didn’t Biden bomb Syria recently? Mix that in with attendance at “training” sessions at the ol’ mosque, and awareness of a store known to cater to Jews but 25 miles away from his residence sounds like a recipe for such an event that happened.
As usual, of course, he was “on the FBI watchlist” but apparently not taken seriously (also like the 9-11 pilot training) while the FBI was too busy rounding up 2-300 people people wearing MAGA hats Jan 06 in DC who had the misfortune of being picked up on surveillance cameras out on the Mall and not among the group inside the Capitol building. Imagine how many interesting folks are crossing our wide open border now with jihad on their mind – thank you Democrats.
It is still SO AMAZING that when democrats need a shooting to exploit to sway the low information voters, voila–it happens. And then another. Tell me how these killers with their supernatural sense of timing seem to happen on cue.
Especially if they are all supposedly Mental!
They are paid, or otherwise encouraged, by the CPUSA aka DemoKrat Partei.
After Columbine in ’99, Aurora in ’12 and Colorado Springs in ’15, NOBODY was carrying a sidearm in a supermarket or, since it was a “gun free zone”, just say “NO” and shop elsewhere?
A number of folks DID. BUT not sufficient in #’s to make a difference to those businesses bottom lines.