Shooters on the Couch: Terrorism? Hate Crimes? Mental lllness?

Dr. Carole, America's Psychiatrist, puts the two most recent mass shooters - Robert Aaron Long in Georgia and Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa in Colorado - on her couch and analyzes them. What would make someone become a mass shooter? She explains why she believes they each had different motives, but both had underlying mental illness. Long is an admitted sex addict, but that's not all of his problems. Alissa was paranoid, according to his family, but this, too, is not all of his problems. Despite some who would claim otherwise, Dr. Carole does not believe that Long's attack was a hate crime against Asians. On the other hand, there is reason to believe that Alissa's attack was related to terrorism and his anger at alleged Islamophobia. What they both have in common is that there are people in society with their own agenda, who are spinning these attacks to fit narratives they want heard in the media. For Long, they want to blame white supremacy. Yet for Alissa, they want to deny terrorism. Dr. Carole is also known as the Terrorist Therapist®, because, since 9/11, she has devoted herself to helping people thrive while living under the cloud of 9/11 and the ongoing threat of terrorism. So, both as a psychiatrist and a terrorism expert, Dr. Carole is particularly well suited to put both of the on her couch.