I have lived in Huntsville for the past 18 years and want to correct a few mis-statements from trangbang68 and then comment on the thread in general.
“Huntsville is this dull, high tech town where they have a hard time keeping young people because its so boring, but every now and then there are explosions of violence.”
Pure libel and nonsense. There have NEVER been recurring explosions of violence. Furthermore, Huntsville is only dull to effete metrosexuals who hate sports and outdoor recreation while *also* being too dim to find Dolce’ and similar fine dining, the bountiful shopping, the artist and craftsman bazaar, the local Symphony, the local Broadway Theatre League, etc.
“A couple weeks ago in the suburbs, a 13 year old wannabe gangsta’ killed another kid in the middle school hallway.”
It happened exactly one week before the UAH murders.
And again, nothing remotely like these two freak incidents have occured in Huntsville while I’ve lived here. We have recurring, violent tornadoes. It would be a HUGE news story if a student was caught on school property with a weapon, much less coldly assasinating a schoolmate. The entire community is in a state of shock over both tragedies.
Finally, the speculation and tone of this thread has been a bit of a shock to me. You’ve all taken this in a weird direction, especially for the Belmont Club.
Granted North Alabama is a very conservative, libertarian region politically. Granted, Amy Bishop was a Harvard Commie. Even so, none of the local speculation has tied national-level politics to what was either a personal grudge or pure, insane, evil. Do you really see the world that way?
This is not a criticism of Wretchard’s original post, per se. But the commentary is off the reservation. Does “road rage” theory apply when murder is pre-planned *and* you have an accomplice? What was Mr Bishop’s Rage Du Jour? That McCain carried almost a 70% majority in Madison county? Is that really motivation to blot our the fact your *four* young kids will now most likely grow up without parents?
