No, not at all.
My overall point is simply that his pattern of behavior fits that of a schizophrenic. If Colorado lacks an appropriate punishment then dispatching the perpetrator to God for judgement might actually be very appropriate.
My larger point was that the ridiculous hysteria on display by our entertainment-media complex, and the shameless opportunism being carried out by low-life pundits (particularly the psychopath presently living in the White House) and gun-control nuts like Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Rendell is not merely "out of proportion" to the situation when compared to the slow-motion, apparently less entertaining, massacres happening in cities like Chicago, is hateful and criminal.
I re-re-read the original post, Prospero.
Choir, meet Preacher.
My take also, is that I hope this won’t be setting up the Hinckley Defense for the perp. The next span of days will show if there is anything more than a lone whacko gunman involved...
We have moved away from having news inform us...to endless commentary on the news. We need to educate our youth in discerning the difference. Analytics.
“Mr. Kromka said that Mr. Holmes’s “disposition was a little off” and that he could be socially awkward, one of the quieter people in the lab. He spent much of his time immersed in his computer, often participating in role-playing online games.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/us/shooting-at-colorado-theater-showing-batman-movie.html?pagewanted=3
He was living more socially in his on-line fantasy world (as the bad guy) than he was in the real world. As things got tougher for him in the real world, he slipped gradually into the fantasy one. Does that hypothesis make sense to you?
That may happen to a lot of people as things get worse economically.