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Originally Posted by adpimiz
Going on a shooting rampage isn't normal. There was someone wrong with Adam Lanza - whether it would be characterized as mental illness, I'm not sure - and he was not right in the head.
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That does not mean he had a treatable, definable mental illness that any legislation would do anything about. Criminals do a lot of mean, hateful things. We don't chalk that up to mental illness. People do awful things because they do things at the spur of the moment without thinking about the consequences or because they are selfish and don't care about others. They may lack empathy. That's still not mental illness. It's not because they are schizophrenic or some other diagnosis of mental illness. There is no pill to give them or talk therapy to keep them from doing what they do. You don't have to be "crazy" to kill.