This is sick:
NBC NEWS – The heavily armed gunman who slaughtered nine people at an Oregon college left a hate-filled note at the scene of his rampage and “felt the world was against him,” law enforcement officials confirmed Friday.
Two officials familiar with the contents of the note say 26-year-old Christopher Harper Mercer, who was killed in a firefight Thursday with police at Umpqua Community College, wrote that he would be “welcomed in Hell and embraced by the devil.”
He wrote that he was “in a bad way,” one official said. “He was depressed, sullen.”
The officials said Mercer lamented the fact that he did not have a girlfriend. “He said he had no life,” another official said.
Former acquaintances and social-media postings paint a picture of Mercer as a withdrawn young man who spent a lot of time on the Internet.
He appeared to be sympathetic to the predominantly Catholic Irish Republican Army — but also posted online that he was “not religious.”
Public records show that one person of that name was born in Los Angeles County in 1989. Police declined to confirm the shooter’s identity late Thursday and during a news conference Friday, in an attempt to not “glorify” the actions of the gunman who killed nine people and wounded nine others.
Authorities told reporters that the shooter had amassed 13 weapons — all purchased legally by either him or a family member from a federal gun dealer.
Six of the weapons were recovered at the scene and seven from his home, said Celinez Nunez, an assistant special agent in charge with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The guns taken from the home were two pistols, four rifles and one shotgun, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said.
In addition, investigators at the school recovered a flak jacket with steel plates lying next to a rifle and five magazines. Additional ammunition was found in the home, Nunez said.
Mercer had enlisted in the U.S. Army and was stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, from Nov. 5 to Dec. 11, 2008, Army officials said. But he was discharged for “failing to meet the minimum administrative standards to serve,” the Army added.
What a cold and calculating way to go out. He was obviously so obsessed with hating Christianity that he apparently made sure he murdered Christians in order to seal his fate in hell. If that isn’t mental, I don’t know what is.