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I'm sorry to say this but velvetvandal has a crapload of problems with the psychological profile of the sniper. He makes the one mistake that profilers aren't supposed to make. That is, not to make profiles which are affected by the profiler's bias and misinformation.
I'll start from the beginning..
"The Sniper is a college graduate or drop-out, probably with some kind of technical degree, e.g. engineering or somesuch. He's the kind of guy who takes metaphors literally. He has, or has recently been laid-off from, a job which has at most average pay, is dull and repetitive, and which he considers beneath his capabilities."
Possible. I don'tthink this is the most likely possibility but it's posible.
"He's a right-wing libertarian, and he has problems with authority - be they his boss, the cops, whoever. He's probably read Nietzsche and De Sade, and perhaps Ayn Rand as well. He might have read some Hesse - probably Demian - and if he has, he'll definitely have the bit where Demian explains the Mark of Cain heavily underlined."
Uhm.. I don't understand why you'd consider him to be a right wing libertarian. There doesn't seem to be any basis for such a specific statement.
"He's probably a member of some gun club or other but he's a loner (cliched, I know, but if the shoe fits...). He's not millitia - the millitia are fairly fundamentalist Xtians and would never claim to be God themselves."
This shows quite a bit of personal bias/misinformation. The militias are not fundamentalist Xtian groups as the mass media portrays them. The militias are composed of members of many religions. Jews, Christians, etc.. and quite a few of them aren't political at all. So this conclusion seems to be based on bias.
"He might have joined, or more likely attempted to join, some kind of magickal order - probably the Church of Satan or Temple of Set - but I'm wary of staking my life on that possibility. those are the organisations he'd consider most in keeping with his philosophy, but I imagine their selection procedures would have identified him as a mentalist and he wouldn't have been accepted."
You make the really big mistake of claiming to know the sniper's "philosophy". You don't know the sniper's philosophy on anything because that info isn't available. Plus, you're right not to stake your life on the sniper joining any magick groups because that seems highly unlikely.
"The huge number of killings carried out initially were a test - he was seeing if he could get away with it, and how much he could get away with. He believes that by killing people, he somehow acquires godlike powers - hence the Tarot card. He probably reckons he's achieved his godly status now, which is why the killings are lesss frequent - he's chilling out, taking his time, savouring the hunt, revelling in his self-styled divine right to decide who lives and who dies."
Doesn't seem to make sense. He left the Tarot card at an early shooting. Does that mean he was striving to be God before those early shootings? And when did he believe that he reached god-like status? At what point? This isn't a mistake, you should just put in more of a timeline.
"He's also probably been getting off on the media attention his crimes are getting, and the panic he's causing - which he doubtless interprets as awe and fear of his godhood."
Probably. I'd think that's pretty much correct.
"The police have, apparently, discovered a white van with bullet casings in abandoned at Dulles airport, so he's probably taken off and left the scene of his crime to try out his powers elsewhere. He can't take the gun with him, given the security procedures on American airlines, post 9/11, so wherever he fetches up next, his first move will be to acquire a new weapon."
Well, we now know that the shell casing found in the truck was the wrong caliber. But that's not important. Why would he fly? Why would he spend money to take a plane trip somewhere when he could just drive? You don't have to fly to get across the U.S. And he could bring his gun with him.
"This will mean he'll probably have to have gone somewhere with fairly relaxed gun control laws, so I guess he'll be on an internal flight. Either that or he's off to find a country without an extradition treaty, but think about it: he's God. Why does he need the law to protect him?"
Why would he go to a state with relaxed gun control laws? He's acquired a gun in Maryland. A state with tough gun control laws. Why would he suddenly start paying attention to the law? And why would he go to a country without an extradition treaty if he believes he's god?
And now.. for the CHEAP SHOT... How do you know the sniper is male?
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