{"id":433366,"date":"2022-04-18T02:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T23:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-nyc-subway-shooter-bears-responsibility-for-his-crimes\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T02:55:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T23:55:56","slug":"the-nyc-subway-shooter-bears-responsibility-for-his-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-nyc-subway-shooter-bears-responsibility-for-his-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"#The NYC subway shooter bears responsibility for his crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6afa377f1d1a1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6afa377f1d1a1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-nyc-subway-shooter-bears-responsibility-for-his-crimes\/#%E2%80%9CThe_NYC_subway_shooter_bears_responsibility_for_his_crimes%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The NYC subway shooter bears responsibility for his crimes&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_NYC_subway_shooter_bears_responsibility_for_his_crimes%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The NYC subway shooter bears responsibility for his crimes&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Nicole Gelinas\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In the near week since Frank James\u2019 alleged Brooklyn subway attack, it\u2019s become accepted wisdom that New York City\u2019s or America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-services system failed him \u2014 and us. Yet no one has shown any way in which social services could have stopped this attack. What we have is what it looks like: a bad guy who intelligently planned and executed a bad thing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the mass shooting, City Councilwoman Alexa Avil\u00e9s and Assemblywoman Marcela Mitaynes, who represent Sunset Park,\u00a0said\u00a0that it <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCCouncil38\/status\/1514043185722503170\">showed how \u201cwe need investments in social services<\/a> \u2014 housing, healthcare and education.\u201d\u00a0Politico\u00a0wondered \u201cWhat Brooklyn\u2019s subway shooting reveals about the state of mental health care.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far? Nothing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>True, New York City and state leave seriously mentally ill people on the street, despite multiple warning signs. Some of those people, like Martial Simon, who pushed Michelle Go to her death under a subway in January, are violent. Simon\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/05\/nyregion\/martial-simon-michelle-go.html\">had a documented<\/a>\u00a0history of delusions and compulsions so severe that he couldn\u2019t function.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James is not that person. James, though born in New York, has no <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent recent ties to the city. Until Wednesday,\u00a0he hadn\u2019t been arrested\u00a0here in nearly a quarter-century.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t fit the profile of Simon or the people accused of killing Christina Yuna Lee and Krystal Bayron-Nieves this year: people recently arrested and released, despite escalating episodes of uncontrolled violent impulses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James claimed, in his video rants, that New York\u2019s mental-health system failed him, but he didn\u2019t say when or how. If the education system failed him, it did so five decades ago. (Maybe the lack of charter schools back then failed him.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-24.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Brooklyn shooting\" class=\"wp-image-21936446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-24.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-24.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>People get help from other commuters following the April 12 subway shooting in Brooklyn. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Will B Wylde <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our housing system didn\u2019t fail him, unless it fails everyone who leaves New York for a different city for one reason or another. He found housing in Milwaukee and an Airbnb in Philly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Should social services run by Milwaukee or some other city have noticed James\u2019 YouTube screeds, in which he said white people \u201ckill and commit genocide against each other\u201d and will do the same to \u201cyour black ass,\u201d declared that \u201cwhite people and black people . . . should not have any contact with each other\u201d and praised 9\/11 as \u201ca beautiful day\u201d?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These are disordered thoughts \u2014 and, as Mayor Eric Adams said last week, big tech should stop allowing people to amplify disordered thoughts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But you are allowed to have disordered thoughts. You\u2019re allowed to think 9\/11 was an inside job; you\u2019re allowed to have bizarre racial theories.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-5-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Frank James\" class=\"wp-image-21936412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-5-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-5-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-5-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>James, the alleged Brooklyn subway shooter, posted multiple concerning videos on social media prior to the attack. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">YouTube \/ prophetoftruth88<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There\u2019s no getting around the fact that James was functional. As he said himself, he <em>chose<\/em> not to work consistently for a living: \u201cThere\u2019s no way that I\u2019m going to . . . go to work, pay my taxes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was functional enough to plot a complex ideological attack across geographic boundaries and carry it out.<\/p>\n<p>He was functional enough to compile the equipment he needed, to disguise himself as an MTA construction worker, to discard his disguise immediately so that he could escape. He even arranged his own arrest.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a whiff of patronizing racism in assuming that James didn\u2019t do exactly what he set out to do but rather \u201cneeded help.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-3-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"New York City Police Department personnel gather at the entrance to a subway stop.\" class=\"wp-image-21936410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-3-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-3-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-3-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>NYPD personnel stand outside of the subway entrance where the April 12 shooting occurred. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">John Minchillo\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anyone who commits a mass attack has mental problems. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, probably\u00a0<em>did<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/buffalonews.com\/news\/military-trauma-part-of-mcveighs-downfall-how-a-decorated-soldier-can-turn-into-the-oklahoma\/article_7c5980f6-6c1e-51d9-908f-f7837184f5c9.html\">have post-traumatic stress disorder<\/a>, and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev\u00a0probably <em>was<\/em> manipulated by his mastermind brother. The 9\/11 hijackers also (apparently!) had disordered thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody ever says that he needed housing services.<\/p>\n<p>Like these other attackers, James knows right from wrong and action and consequence. In one video, he said that \u201cI wanted to kill people\u201d but \u201cI don\u2019t want to go to f\u2013king prison.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Should the FBI have zeroed in on the videos James\u00a0posted\u00a0just before his attack, when he used more menacing language, saying, for example, that \u201cit\u2019s time\u201d?\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-4-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Law enforcement officials lead subway shooting suspect Frank R. James, 62, right, away from a police station and into a vehicle.\" class=\"wp-image-21936411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-4-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-4-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Subway-Shooting-4-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>NYPD escort James into a police vehicle following his arrest. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">John Minchillo\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sure, but that\u2019s law enforcement, not social services. Plus, James made no direct threats \u2014 more evidence of careful planning.<\/p>\n<p>It may be a good idea for social-services agencies to interact more with people like James.\u00a0But there are a\u00a0<em>lot<\/em>\u00a0of such people: people on the border of society, with plenty of time to cultivate loony ideas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is New York City going to hunt each of these people down and provide him with an apartment and daily intensive counseling so that he doesn\u2019t make a cross-country <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> here to attack us?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicole\u00a0Gelinas\u00a0is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute\u2019s City Journal.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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