Why are people buying the line that this was driven primarily mental illness

[loyalsister]

37. Yes there is the line between EXTREME anger an mental illness

Pretty much everyone does things they regret or later find irrational when angry.
People who do not have mental illness may experience absolute rage. Some of us can comprehend incidents of domestic violence where a one spouse kills the cheater in that relationship and do not label it mental illness. It's because we have been in or close to those situations and we can make sense of it.
It's not impossible to understand a person who kills the employer who fires them right before christmas.

We can follow a disturbed logic that indicates anger and rage and does not necessarily imply mental illness.

The trouble is, we live in a culture that permits violence in response to personal anger. Listen to what people say and look at the cathartic entertainment produced. AND, the tools available to act on the angry emotions that drive those behaviors.

Our negligence when it comes to mental illness is abhorrent. I think that writing these incidents off as mental illness before exploring situation like these kinds of incidents is also negligent.