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A Mass Shooter’s Tragic Past (2013)
- hga 12y agoFor a more balanced account, see e.g. this one I got off of Wikipedia: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html which details a long history of violent tendencies and likely real violence, note the restaurant assault. A bit from the beginning: "Over the years, Dr. Bishop had shown evidence that the smallest of slights could set off a disproportionate and occasionally violent reaction, according to numerous interviews with colleagues and others who know her." A tragic past, alright, but one she created, enabled by the sort of corruption and softness on crime Massachusetts is well known for (e.g. she was sentenced to probation for the restaurant assault, but wasn't technically "convicted" of a crime). And a technical note, pump shotguns don't "go off" more than once without "pumping", moving the forearm back to eject a shell (and that's one way to unload them, granted, you have to hit a switch if you haven't just fired it), and forward to put in a new shell. Which she did twice: after she went outside and attempted a carjacking, the gun was found with a shell in the chamber.