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auntpurl

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13. Yes.

Sun Jun 12, 2016, 05:09 PM

Jun 2016

It's a lot easier to assume the person is crazy, because it's very uncomfortable to talk about a sane person walking into a nightclub (or an elementary school) and murdering dozens of people. Just does not compute. And what is the answer? What do we do with people like that? There is no mental health rehabilitation, because they have no mental health diagnosis (unless they do, of course. There are examples of violent killers with antisocial personality disorder and other diagnoses. Unfortunately, APD responds to almost NO treatment, including talk therapy and medication.). They just murder because they are murderers. That does not feel right or true or satisfying, as a society.

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Can I just say something about mental health? [View all] auntpurl Jun 2016 OP

Terrorists are normally sane and understand fully what they are doing. NutmegYankee Jun 2016 #1

Yes. auntpurl Jun 2016 #3

Good read DustyJoe Jun 2016 #2

Well, that is clearly not true. auntpurl Jun 2016 #4

Why would you want to own something made to kill unless you want to kill? scscholar Jun 2016 #27

wonderful post. thank you. cali Jun 2016 #5

Thanks for reading. auntpurl Jun 2016 #6

When someone commits such an atrocity Aerows Jun 2016 #19

"Unstable is a mental illness": Not in the sense of diagnosis and treatment. auntpurl Jun 2016 #20

I get what you are saying - the vast majority Aerows Jun 2016 #21

I'm so sorry. auntpurl Jun 2016 #22

Just when I think things have gotten better Aerows Jun 2016 #23

I was thinking today auntpurl Jun 2016 #24

... auntpurl Jun 2016 #7

we must talk about mental illness KT2000 Jun 2016 #8

"Words are important and we all have a need to separate ourselves from such an act." auntpurl Jun 2016 #9

as memory serves me - KT2000 Jun 2016 #15

It is much more helpful to base gun ownership on past actions than mental illness diagnosis. auntpurl Jun 2016 #17

reading comprehension KT2000 Jun 2016 #18

I think there is a valid conversation as to whether it is "sane" to think a magic being in the sky Warren DeMontague Jun 2016 #10

This is why language is important. auntpurl Jun 2016 #12

I think the real reflexive denial here is to make the connection to Islamic Fundamentalism Warren DeMontague Jun 2016 #14

I believe IS needs to be wiped out. auntpurl Jun 2016 #16

It's also an easy out. progressoid Jun 2016 #11

Yes. auntpurl Jun 2016 #13

One of the greatest atrocities that St. Ronnie committed Stonepounder Jun 2016 #25

How about a person being brainwashed, I liken his actions to a violent cult-like behavior oregonjen Jun 2016 #26

I'm a hunter with a history of Depression. Odin2005 Jun 2016 #28