Mass Shooter influenced by the "Men's Rights Movement"

[MADem]

102. It's very difficult to commit a person for therapy against their will.

We don't know what his rich parents tried to do, or didn't try to do, to help this young man. We do know they called the cops and tried to get help for the kid.

I'm sure when he was born they didn't hold him in their arms and say "Let's encourage him to grow up to be a nut full of hate and resentment who shoots people."

I think all these easy theories about what "made" him do what he did are far too simplistic and really dismissive of the serious health issues this individual had. Mental illness is a helluva problem, and this guy had him some. Was he medically noncompliant? Was he blowing off his doctors/therapists? Were his parents so frantic they called the cops on him before he acted out? Signs point to YES.

It's lame to mistake one symptom out of many for the actual disease. IMO.

I'm no Bill Frist, but I think "high functioning Aspergers" was the LEAST of his problems. Time, of course, will tell.

Now that we have this murdering guy among us, and we are all aware of his existence, the important thing to do, first, is get him off the streets so he doesn't kill anyone else. Once that's done maybe we can figure out what caused him to behave the way he did, so we can apply those lessons to other disaffected, angry Youtubers who have to act out their feelings of impotent rage.

Thanks for those links and for injecting a bit of fact into this sad conversation.