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 Accused Alabama Shooter’s History Raises More ConcernsPosted on Feb 15, 2010
Alleged University of Alabama shooter Ann Bishop’s history of violence appears to extend much further back than last week’s fatal confrontation at a staff meeting on the university’s Huntsville campus. According to an unnamed law enforcement official cited in Sunday’s Boston Globe, Bishop and her husband were questioned about an attempted mail bombing in 1993 that targeted Dr. Paul Rosenberg, one of her research supervisors at Harvard. That information, combined with last weekend’s revelation that Bishop had fatally shot her own brother in 1986, adds another troubling dimension to the shootout that claimed the lives of three of Bishop’s Alabama colleagues and wounded three others on Friday. —KA
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By L2k4FC, February 17, 2010 at 6:20 pm Link to this comment
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Hey Suzanne: where did I show lack of respect by calling a psycho, a psycho? The grieving families if they happen to be reading this post [which is possible but not likely] would more than likely agree with the spirit of my message given the suspect’s historical performance in the category of VIOLENCE. If I’ve broken the rules of this forum then I expect my posts to be removed. Otherwise kindly desist from assuming that you know anything about me or whether or not I do in fact have any empathy for victims of crime. I do get what you are saying but it really doesn’t need to be said here and it comes off as totally condescending.
Report thisBy NABNYC, February 17, 2010 at 5:59 pm Link to this comment
I’m surprised there aren’t more mass-shootings by women. When you think about it, women are often horribly oppressed inside the home, treated like slaves with no rights, ordered to work, to clean, cook, serve, all with a smile, while their husbands and often children talk down to them. Then in the work place, women are routinely denied promotion or equal opportunity or wages solely based on gender. The university environment is a great example, still keeping its male-only sign up for tenured positions.
What happens to people who are mistreated their entire lives, always demeaned and ridiculed and undermined, subject to ongoing threats and fear of physical violence, seeing other women beaten or murdered by a disgruntled male partner. Doesn’t that really serve as a reminder to all women that they’d better mind their Ps and Qs?
Why is it only men who go on the rampage? Women have better grounds to do so. We shouldn’t be surprised to see this. What we should do is go to every major employer in the country and tell them to get 50% women in their best positions, and to do it now. Because some women are beginning to arm themselves.
Report thisBy Suzanne, February 16, 2010 at 12:12 pm Link to this comment
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@L2k4fc Ummm, could you try to remember that there are four people dead here, please? I know that when the media craziness starts it’s easy to become desensitized, but this is not a lighthearted event. Families are grieving, and you should show some respect for their losses.
Report thisBy expat in germany, February 16, 2010 at 7:14 am Link to this comment
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I read a news item today in which her husband was quoted as saying that they recently went to a shooting range but that he “didn’t know where she got the gun.” WTF?! I may not share everything with my husband, but if I suddenly had a gun after never having one, I think he might ask me why and where I got it. Don’t be surprised to see a mugshot of the husband sometime soon…
Report thisBy L2k4fc, February 15, 2010 at 12:45 pm Link to this comment
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Uhhhh move over Hannibal Lecter cuz there’s a new Psycho in town!!! I love it. PLEASE tell me she has not pro-created. She gets a poor review, and decides to mail some pipe bombs - denied tenure so she kills some people, what did her brother do, snore too loudly? Change the TV channel? If there was ever a case for summary execution….bing bing bing bing…..yahtzee…..
Report thisBy Blackspeare, February 15, 2010 at 8:58 am Link to this comment
The dropping of the investigation into the shooting of her brother and the letter bomb several years later, not to mention the disappearance of the police records from the shooting, point to the old adage, “It’s good to have friends in high places.”
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