Nothing I am saying or quoting from articles and testimony is telling or individually significant, yet collectively, I think its instructive to understanding motivations for shooting Reeva:
Pistorius worrying background with firearms.
He seems to have patterns of behavior in how he handles guns and shoots as emotionally driven:
- He uses guns when he is angry. Fresco and Taylor suggest he shot the gun out of the sunroof because a policeman dared to touch and unload his gun you dont touch a mans gun (Freud alert!) and then shot out of spite. Obviously uncaring that celebratory gunfire or random air shooting can kill, over long distances, innocent people.
- He uses guns in stress and as a stress relief. In the New York Times profile he recounts shooting at a gun ranges to help his with his insomnia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/oscar-pistorius.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
(Many lines in that profile are revealing. On an athletes disposition : he believes himself to be royalty of a certain kind.)
- He uses guns as a sign of his masculinity and authority, part of the reason why he collect guns and artillery and exhibits them to his other gun interested buddies and even the NYTimes reporter. Also, he used guns when he felt slighted by police; he wanted to shoot at a robot. Samantha Taylor testified that Pistorius got out of his car and not so much out of out of fear but to threaten, with his gun, occupants of a possibly following car. Mindboggling, the occupants may just have been photographers or his fans.
- He uses guns and shoots in a reckless manner in casual settings. In the restaurant shooting he felt shame but still wanted got others to lie and cover for him. And with all his cold glances (anecdotal tweets from journalists covering trial) at Fresco he even may have wanted his friends to lie about his gun use in open court.
- He uses guns in an irrational manner. It seems irrational to go into code red about a washing machine noise and even more irrational to discuss this behavior by tweeting about it online, to NYTimes and the official, Rens, who examined his firearm proficiency and responsibility. The level he thinks that behavior is normal, let alone thinking the public would support it, shows a strange reasoning and lacking some sense of reality.
(nb: I wrote this before the last two days of trial, but I'll just put it out there
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