Just listening to the Evening News on NBC and the last topic was the shooting in Tucson. They had clips of viewers calling in stating a comment and one that really bothers me is the kind that go something like this "...it was not the gun that killed people, it was his mental illness..."
Does anyone besides me get angry at this? Why is it when a person knowingly does something that is offensive and uncomprehendable so many people jump on the mental illness band wagon? Is it possible that this is just a person who is evil, planned a horrible thing and carried it through? There are bad people in this world and they are all not mentally ill. In my opinion, it puts a bad light on the folks that honestly do suffer from different sorts of mental illness yet never cause harm to anyone.
Sometimes there is just no reason that most of us can think of that a person would purposely and willingly carry out such an act, but guess what....people do and we may never understand it.
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