Just because the guy was high on meth does not mean he is blaming his actions on the meth use.
The use of drugs are not always to blame for a persons behavior.
For instance, the meth use did not prevent him from realizing he did wrong to the point he borrowed a backhoe, dug a hole and buried them.
Lots of people do stupid thing behind the wheel and sometimes kill people by their action without being impaired by drugs or alcohol, just stupid people that don’t know how to drive.
They say 30% of all highway
fatalities are either drug are alcohol related, that would mean the other 70% of fatalities are caused by sheer stupidity.
“The use of drugs are not always to blame for a persons behavior.”
I know. Some drugs actually (intentionally or inadvertently) inhibit a person’s behavior.
Further, the identical ‘drug’ (for lack of a better term) affects different people in different ways, sometimes vastly different ways.
I am not against legalization of drugs (if regulated). Big Pharma alone is scrooing up plenty of people on their own. But at the same time I acknowledge that drugs are at the root of many a crime; they are not victimless.
Adam Lanza and the Charleston Church shooter were on some kind of prescription (legal and sanctioned) so-called psycotropic drigs?
Excellent point! While it's safe to say the meth didn't improve his thinking process, it's rank emotionalism to say his crime is an "indictment" of meth, or drugs in general.