You are not required to support Dorner,

[JDPriestly]

178. It boils down to a central problem with the abuse of authority and the inability to deal

with authority in the workplace. The problems lie in the behavior on both sides. The employee feels helpless when facing the abuse of authority, what the employee perceives as an unfair firing or an arbitrary docking of hours or maybe a dishonest review. But the employee is helpless about dealing with it. Bosses can be really arrogant and dismissive of employees.

But it is all murder when you get down to it. The question isn't whether the murder is wrong or right. It is definitely wrong. The question is whether the anger that motivated the murder and perhaps therefore the murder could have been prevented. That's where I think there is work to be done.

I think that when people say that mental health care should be part of the solution to gun rampages, they are talking about teaching people to deal constructively with anger.

Anger management classes can really help people. Depends, of course, on how they are taught. But I have seen some amazing changes. Dealing with addiction and teaching people positive self-talk can also help in some cases as I understand it.

As a culture, we tacitly approve of people's expressing extreme anger in anti-social ways. Our TV and movies are full of exaggerated displays of anger and other negative emotions. That contributes to the view that violence and killing can actually be justified or remedy a situation.