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...difficult to understand why there are so many disturbed people like Charles Whitman [Aug. 12] in your technological society...
Because Charles Whitman was male, the major motivation behind his psychosis is said to have involved his mother. Yet it wasn't his mother who trained him to handle guns as soon as he was old enough to hold them; it wasn't his mother who beat his father; it wasn't his mother who is described as authoritarian; it wasn't his mother he hated with passion...
...half-outraged, half-defensive statement by self-described "gun fanatic" Charles A. Whitman, father of Mass Murderer Charles J. Whitman, that "I raised my boys to know how to handle guns" echoes the plaintive wail of another father, Willy Loman, protagonist of Death of a Salesman, who in exasperation over his son Biff, cries out: "Why is he stealing? What did I tell him? I never in my life told him anything but decent things." Particularly in light of the Austin tragedy, Whitman's utterance seems just as hollow, counterfeit and pathetic as Willy...
...TIME calls Whitman "the perpetrator of the worst mass murder in recent U.S. history." What about the charmer who a few years ago put a bomb in his mother's airborne suitcase and sent 44 innocents to a terrifying death...
...traveled the breadth of Texas last summer. Granted, everything is big, but when you say Charles Whitman carried a 35-mm. Remington, that isn't big; that's Texas...