This is beyond mental illness. This is demon possessed. People with mental illness usually only harm themselves. They can make life hell for parents etc but they only take it out physically on themselves if at all.
“People with mental illness usually only harm themselves. They can make life hell for parents etc but they only take it out physically on themselves if at all.”
That is not true - the prisons are full with people who have mental illness, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome being the predominant condition. They hurt anyone near them - usually without really knowing what they are doing.
That should be the national discussion, not the weapons but the evil people using them. We let our kids play video games where they shoot people in a very realistic setting without cause and think that won't impact their thinking. Congress won't ever do anything about the violent games because a good chunk of their lobbyists come from that industry. We turn a blind eye to the foul hateful language in their music because that's the new generation. Even when these kids drop the f bomb themselves, adults look the other way.
If we don't care that our families are exposed to evil 24/7 in this culture then we shouldn't expect to produce a generation of saints. We are what we read and hear and watch and play.
I was selected for jury duty a couple of years ago in a double murder case where a young white woman had set her parents up to be murdered by her boy friend, a white male who was no more than 20. She supplied him with her father’s pistol and he did the actual killing. When I first looked at him I was shocked. His eyes were in the centers of dark, black pits and he looked like some hideous thing that had all of its soul sucked out and replaced with pure evil. Indeed, he coluldn’t have looked worse if he’d been deliberately made up for a Hollywood horror movie.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t a death penalty case. Also, and most unfortunately, I was preemptorily challenged, meaning I didn’t get to serve on that jury. Fortunatly, the jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Looking back, from what he did and his appearance, total demonic possession was possible.