Is having the conversation about mental illness and horrendous violent crime stigmatizing?

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They sound more like the emotionally-charged rants from a Yahoo! news or Youtube comment. I also take SSRIs and psychological disorders run in my family. None of them are dangerous, but I do know someone who is prone to bouts of anger and has borderline but fortunately he has never done any harm to anyone while having them and isn't totally out of control, though they are scary to witness.

But seriously, that's not what I am hearing from mental health advocates on the news and like from the one who wrote that "I am Adam Lanza's Mother" article, instead the message I am getting from them is the reduction of stigma, and the need to reform our mental health care system, and mentions of how thankful they are that "Obamacare" covers such a thing. There is also talk of tighter background checks that include people with severe mental illness but that couldn't prevent some cases where people like Adam Lanza stole their guns.

To be fair though, it's something that needs to be talked about regardless in light of many other issues surrounding mental health such as the schizophrenic homeless and the high price of mental health care.

It's a horrible, but statistically rare event. However people still win the lottery, people still get struck by lightning multiple times, and people still get bitten by sharks. Beaches still warn people about sharks, people are still taught how to avoid lightning, and people are warned about the pros and cons of winning the lottery.

Experts can debate until the end of the world about what to do in regards to issues that cross psychology, violence, and gun control, questions that extend to those not diagnosed with a psychological disorder like what does it mean to be competent, what is consent, what does it mean to even be in one's right mind, and if free will even exists. However, the law cannot operate under such debates and uncertainties and must have strict criteria for defining who is "competent", who is "in their right mind", and other things. Personally I favor a rehabilitative approach for all criminals, and in my honest opinion I would equate being under the influence of drugs as something akin to legal insanity depending on the strength of that drug.