From the Knoxville News Sentinel:
The shotgun-wielding suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church planned to shoot until police shot him, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said this morning.
Jim D. Adkisson, 58, of Powell wrote a four-page letter in which he described his feelings and why he committed the shooting, Owen said.
Adkisson said he was frustrated about not being able to obtain a job and how much he hated the liberal movement, Owen said.
So it looks like he went there because he hates the liberal movement. Which sounds like TVUU was just a convenient target for him. Now, in addition to all of the other emotions I’m feeling, I can add disgust in.
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Joseph // July 28, 2008 at 12:00 pm |
Would it matter whether this man’s act was against the liberal, conservative or any other movement / set of ideas?
Surely we must feel disgust at this act alone – regardless of motive.
Robin Edgar // July 28, 2008 at 2:18 pm |
Good point Joseph.
My Response to the Attacks at the Tennessee Valley UU Church at The Adventures of Jessica Sideways // July 28, 2008 at 4:01 pm |
[...] the life of people who were just worshiping at this particular church. This has been blogged about all throughout the UU blogosphere. The attacker was the ex-husband of a parishioner at the church and [...]