Alexandre Bissonnette, the Canadian mass murderer who walked into a mosque and opened fire, is not at all remorseful.
“I regret not having shot more people,” the shooter told the social worker, who described him as calm and coherent. “The victims are in heaven and I’m living in hell.”
Earlier in the day, prosecutors revealed searches from Bissonnette’s computer that “indicated the Quebec mosque shooter was obsessed with U.S. President Donald Trump, Muslims, Dylann Roof, mass shootings and feminists,” the Gazzette noted. The Canadian National Observer reported that the shooter searched for Trump more than 800 times before the massacre he committed just over a week after the American president’s inauguration
What an excuse! He imagines his victims are in heaven. They’re not, they’re dead, their families are grieving. Religion sure fucks up your head, doesn’t it?
You know what else he was consuming, besides his bible? Alt-right neo-Nazi garbage.
Evidence presented at Alexandre Bissonnette's sentencing hearing this morning includes a list of some of the Twitter accounts he was checking in the month before he killed six men at a Quebec City mosque. pic.twitter.com/Xdew4HbjkQ
— Andy Riga, Montreal (@andyriga) April 16, 2018
Just to be fair, Ben Shapiro was very popular with this guy, and he has tried to distance himself from the association.
The shooter is a deranged POS who should burn in hell. If you think I'm responsible for his evil, GFY. https://t.co/VHmCMoK6TU
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 16, 2018
OK. Bissonnette is a “a deranged POS”, agreed. But then Ben Shapiro is also “a deranged POS”, so I guess it was a case of shared affinities. Looking at all the names on that list, it’s one big garbage pile of deplorables.
By the way, Andy Riga is the journalist reporting on this case for the Montreal Gazette, and is worth following if you care about what happens to “a deranged POS”.
bigwhale says
Momma always said, “responsible for evil is as responsible for evil does.” I’m not judging anyone’s soul, but if someone’s audience is full of hate, they either need to do something about it, or I will have to assume they are supporting it.
Reginald Selkirk says
Huh? Why was this necessary? Trump dominates the front page of the news every single day, it doesn’t take any searching.
Steve Bruce says
I’m just stunned that Sam Harris is not there in that list.
peptron says
Don’t forget to read about the victims too, they were all very involved in their communities. Read the story of Aymen Derbali for example.
SC (Salty Current) says
Daniel Dale: “After a false early report that the Quebec City mosque massacre was co-perpetrated by a man with a Muslim name, Ben Shapiro mockingly tweeted, ‘It’s the damn Mormons again’. In fact, prosecutors allege, the killer was a white Ben Shapiro fan.”
numerobis says
Bissonnette was Christian? Odd for Quebec.
LaPresse reports that he seems to have been debating whether to shoot up the mosque, or a feminist gathering at the local university.
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/dossiers/attentat-a-quebec/201804/16/01-5161201-alexandre-bissonnette-voulait-tuer-plus-de-monde.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_vous_suggere_5161318_article_POS1
Ed Seedhouse says
>What an excuse! He imagines his victims are in heaven
Wait. They are surely accursed non believers in Christ and deniers of the Resurrection, so they pretty much by definition go to hell from an Xian perspective, right?
unclefrogy says
@7
well that does illustrate that there is a complete lack of consistency and understanding of his purported religion. and a complete failure at reason.
unless he is saying that they were in truth innocent victims and that he is now suffering for his deliberate acts. seems very self-destructive thinking to me.
uncle frogy
blf says
(This is a slightly-edited cross-post from poopyhead’s current Political Madness All the Time thread.)
Related, Neo-Nazi ‘Tyrone’ exposed as US marine:
More details at the link.
notruescott says
No single raindrop thinks it is responsible for the flood.
numerobis says
Ed Steedhouse @7: it’s somewhat likely he’s an atheist, being in Quebec. But it’s usually a catholic god that Quebecers don’t believe in.
screechymonkey says
Funny thing about Shapiro “distancing himself” from the shooter: he previously attacked Piers Morgan (talk about asshole-on-asshole crime!) for supposedly having violent followers:
https://twitter.com/calebecarma/status/986262963773497344
gijoel says
Slightly off topic, I do like this jaunty little tune.
billyjoe says
“I’m just stunned that Sam Harris is not there in that list”
Or maybe his absence undercuts your argument. ;)