Can we please please stop doing this?

[mr_lebowski]

25. THIS & the notion that every one who kills must be mentally ill is poppycock ...

And as you say, a complete insult to people who are legitimately mentally ill through no fault of their own.

If we adopted the attitude that 'killing someone' is prima facie evidence that someone is insane, we'd have to commit all murderers to mental hospitals, or just call 'em not guilty by reason of insanity ...

Not even close to all murderers meet the clinical definition of 'mentally ill', let alone 'insane'.

Who here thinks that the average gang member who shoots someone from a rival gang for invading their drug-selling territory and cutting into their profits ... must be 'insane' and therefore should be able to plead not guilty by reason of insanity ... as proven by the fact they killed someone? Raise your hand ...