Blame everything on mental illness. Blame me personally if you want.

[loyalsister]

37. "how could someone in their "right mind"????"

That's what I keep hearing on the topic. How could someone in their right mind want to (or would it be "not want to&quot kill.... their spouse after catching them cheating, or the boss who fired them Christmas eve, the loan officer who made the bad loan and foreclosed on their home?

There are very ordinary situations and motives that are understood so universally that most of us can understand how someone might feel justified in killing. We understand this as rage rather than mental illness.

I see many people who are so dismayed by the recent killings that they are quick to shove aside the possibility that there is a kind of rage, or trail of murderous logic they do not understand.
It is much easier to think that people who may have bad intentions have been identified as having a mental illness because there is a chance they are being treated and don't blend in too easily.

I totally share your concerns and hope that threads like these serve to educate and improve our dialogue.