Making Sense of the Mandalay Bay Hotel Shooting

By Jonathan Mubanga Mumbi

Certainly this man can be anyone in upper-class American society, but he is also unique in his lack of connection to God, deep self, and his community. Predicting how people will turn out after hitting key life crisis points is impossible. Guessing what will be triggered is equally hard. But it is now understood that most mass murderers do so around a time when men would be facing their midlife crises. The Mandalay Bay shooter falls in the bracket of men falling in late life crisis (the full impact of knowing that one is now a senior citizen). It is not an end of life crisis, but it has enough emotional punch to trigger something if there is some underlying emotional time-bomb to trigger. Efforts to minimize such atrocious behaviors can be even more proactive by ensuring that people stay socially connected and in touch with healthy Christian spirituality. American society, like every other human society, also needs to address the root causes of suicide whether it be personal and private or a suicide mission of a psychopath who imagines himself to be "signing out" in a memorable way by murdering many innocent people. People cannot afford to live in fear of the next senior citizen living a very quiet and private life next door because the terror effect is an outright win for the kingdom of darkness (walking in faith and love does not sit well with entertaining a pulverizing fear). There is a spiritual dimension to psycho-emotional wellness and this needs to be taken into serious account too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jonathan Mubanga Mumbi
• Release date: Oct 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370949274

Jonathan Mubanga Mumbi

I am Jonathan M. Mumbi an ordained Bishop of the Church of God (World Missions Zambia). This is a denomination under the World Missions Department of the Church of God, Cleveland Tennessee, USA.I have been in ministry since 1988 and mostly a volunteer in Youth With A Mission (YWAM) +30 years. My wife, Jean Mumbi, and I have served at various levels in YWAM and in the Church of God. My passion is to empower young people through nonformal Christian tertiary education. My educational journey has been mostly through YWAM's University of the Nations but I am grateful to have earned a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theological Studies through Nations University. I am a Pastoral Counselor and a lecturer. We are a family of which the youngest is going twenty-three and her siblings are adult brothers.Special personal note: None of the organizations served or mentioned will endorse every opinion I hold, neither do I want to leave anyone under the impression that I writes for, or, under any other authority other my own passion to write what I feel inspired to write.

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Making Sense of The Mandalay Bay Hotel Shooting

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: Making Sense of The Mandalay Bay Hotel Mass Murderer

CHAPTER 2: The Challenge of the Senselessness of the Act

CHAPTER 3: The Empty Soul

CHAPTER 4: Going Forward From Here

The End

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CHAPTER 1: Making Sense of the mandalay bay hotel mass-murderer

Is this man the animal, the pure evil, or the psychopath, he appears to be? At the age of sixty-four, who goes around murdering people attending a country music festival if not one who is in every sense a beast, pure evil, and an icon of psychopathic behavior? America is in shock and along with the rest of the world. Why is this happening in a Christian country, and specifically in the Bible belt of this leading Christian country? Is this a failure of faith in God? From a distance, one has to make sense of this shooter as a