Can you have a severe mental illness and still get a degree in neuroscience? I’m going with evil. Of course, he will probably be deemed not guilty by reason of insanity, spend a few years in a mental hospital, and be released. I do feel for his family, though.
The answer to your question is yes.
We don’t know the story on this shooter yet. But I hold strongly that the mentally ill have a responsibility to get help. It is entirely possible to be both ill and evil.
What we need is to somehow get some tools in place so friends and family who see a person’s deteriorating mental state can force him treatment before he goes bonkers. EVEN IF HE IS UNWILLING.
That is nearly impossible under current law.