it really is an unbelievably stupid article.
I have yet to see an intelligent take on this atrocity, from either side of the political spectrum. And I don’t have one myself, other than “mental illness is bad and we don’t do a good job in this country handling these extreme cases” which is not very helpful as a policy recommendation
True.
Has the list of prescribed meds been released yet? There undoubtedly will be several in this guys history.
“And I don’t have one myself, other than “mental illness is bad and we don’t do a good job in this country handling these extreme cases”
Just because his parents and the media say he was mentally ill doesn’t make it so.
In his own words, therapy was useless in a “cruel and unjust world.” And he was right about the world being cruel and unjust. It is. Everybody has to find a way to live with that.
He refused to, just like he refused to work a custodial job, walking off after one day, because he was a self-described “intellectual” and the job was beneath him. That isn’t mental illness, either. That’s a grandiose view of yourself and your place in the universe.
He thought he was smarter than all the therapists. He didn’t know God. So there was no helping him. He decided to take revenge by throwing a childish temper tantrum against the “cruel and unjust” world and his place in it. And he used knives and guns and his car — anything within reach, like a kid who throws himself on the floor and breaks things. That’s not mental illness. That’s childishness.
If he was sick, he’s not responsible. Do you really want to let him and all the narcissistic, eternally childish, hateful bastards like him, off the hook for his choices and actions?