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In reply to the discussion: Just a reminder: Most people with mental illness are NOT violent. [View all]NRA_SUCKS
(39 posts)Seriously, we always talk about how someone is "ill this or mentally that" why?
Why can't this guy just have been royally pissed off?
Why can't he have been a bible-thumper (ok point that is a mental illness)
Or....
I think I may have broken my own argument.
Still, why do we always assume these things are done for some mentally broken reason?
Columbine... I'm sorry but that was well reasoned, calculated, and motivated. These boys were tormented to insanity.
there was no mental illness. that was revenge pure and simple.
Here we are 10+? years later and we still ignore the causes for many of these outrages.
mental illness also can no longer be a simple throw-away excuse.
Many many many successful people out there are "mentally ill" in some way or another... and what is mental illness anyway? what is normal?
We need to look at the cold facts.
someone just killed 20 children, his mother, and 7 other adults.
Yes I'm interested in the WHY, and WHAT motivated him. but there is also a very cold real fact that if extended magazines, and automatic weapons were not available the death toll is likely to have been FAR FAR FAR less. people can move astonishingly fast between clips.