[ari-freedom]

“If this report is correct, the guy was clearly suffering from a parasitic attack on his brain. “

too bad it conveniently missed the part of the brain that came up with the idea to kill a pastor and effectively carry out the plan.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"too bad it conveniently missed the part of the brain that came up with the idea to kill a pastor and effectively carry out the plan."

I'm not sure "conveniently" is the correct word. Lyme can cause paralysis, phantom sensations, visions, voices, all sorts of stuff-- a whole spectrum of brain disease. I haven't dug up the previous story mentioned in the article to see what the shooter's symptoms were, but in the months since that story it could have gone in any direction. Schizophrenia, for example, is possible. I knew a guy who'd gone about six months before a Lyme diagnosis, and he'd undergone personality changes and a really bad case of manic-depression, just huge swings, along with really bad arthritis as the result of the spirochete. Nothing would surprise me with Lyme. Again, it's quite similar to syphilis, to which it is related, and can have the same end result. My impression is that it attacks faster, though. It's quite a serious affair. Pray you never experience it.

[ketsu]

too bad it conveniently missed the part of the brain that came up with the idea to kill a pastor and effectively carry out the plan.

When the brain is damaged this sort of psychosis is quite common really. Charles Whitman and Phineas Gage are good examples. That's also why people with dementia can be such pains in the butt.