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Originally Posted by Chicago88
"His motivation was not immediately known, but Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described him as mentally unstable and possibly acting with an accomplice."
I get so tired of the "mentally ill, or pleading insanity" excuse. In this case he might be mentally unstable and I'm sorry, maybe I'm a bit brash, but insane or not I believe they are fully aware of what they are doing and it's scary because they believe its acceptable. I still will never understand why people believe that violence or death will change anything. It solves nothing and the government is going to continue to carry on with their policies, ideology and so forth. I find it extremely sad that anyone would ever have to experience such tragedy. No one deserves that.
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You are (understandably) applying your own perspective (and experience) to something that very few people outside of psychiatry truly understand - mental illness, most especially thought disorders. Would that it was that simple, or worked that way. But it is not.
You cannot assume that your reality/belief system/value system is, in any way/shape/form, anything like that of a person who exhibits the type of delusional and disordered thinking that the suspect has exhibited. Nowhere in any of his rants or writings did the suspect indicate that his shooting of government officials would change anything whatsoever. His thoughts are largely incoherent. Officials from the local community college have come forward with information regarding the bizarre behaviors the suspect exhibited which resulted in his expulsion from the community college.
Having evaluated people who suffer from a variety of emotional disturbances and mental illnesses, I will say that their motives are seldom if ever understandable through the filters that most of us use and are comfortable with. Thought disorders are baffling, and paranoia is not something that can be reasoned with. Applying the standard of "fully aware of what one is doing" is challenging, even for the experts.
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