erin micklow
Last year, Erin Micklow, a 20-year-old aspiring model and actress, was hired to work at a dating seminar attended by George Sodini, the 48-year-old man who shot and killed three women and wounded nine others at the LA Fitness gym.
Erin Micklow is right. After the aforementioned self-help seminar, which was held in Los Angeles and reportedly attended by a number of lonely men from around the country, Sodini made a YouTube video which was essentially a tour of his house. According to Erin Micklow, Sodini was encouraged to make the video as a homework assignment; it was an attempt to make his home look more presentable to a woman. If you watch the video, you'll discover that George Sodini does indeed seem like a quiet, unassuming fellow; he seems rather gentle, in fact. So Erin Micklow is correct when she says that George Sodini didn't seem like a bad person.
But the truth of the matter is that George Sodini was a bad person. A very, very bad person. Anyone who cold-bloodedly murders innocent people is a bad person. Hello?
I have written two other articles on the LA Fitness shooter and am astonished that some people have posted comments under the articles that actually come to Sodini's defense.
These terribly misguided people are making excuses for Sodini. They argue that "society" shunted him aside for being too nice. One poster says that it's understandable that Sodini snapped. "After being alone for so long, you might snap too," writes the anonymous poster.
One poster named "Mary" writes that she read Sodini's diary and "felt his pain, his loneliness and wept."
I wonder if Mary would have felt Sodini's "pain and loneliness and wept" if one of her relatives had been savagely murdered by him?
It is disrespectful to the people whom Sodini murdered to start making excuses for his appalling act. It's hurtful to their families.
