Something ridiculously fucked up about this.

A psychiatrist who treated James Holmes described him Tuesday as an anxious, anti-social oddball who thought obsessively about killing people in the months before he opened fire in a crowded movie theater in the Denver suburbs, killing 12 and wounding 70.

Dr. Lynne Fenton testified before a packed courtroom that Holmes told her in March 2012 that he had “homicidal thoughts” — as often as three or four times a day. As his treatment progressed, he told her his obsession with killing was only getting worse.

And yet, Fenton told a jury there was little she could do because Holmes never talked about specifics. She couldn’t place him under a psychiatric hold because he never disclosed his intention to kill — even while he was acquiring weapons and “casing” a movie theater. And he never named a target, she testified.

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Fenton first saw him on March 21, and tentatively diagnosed him with “social anxiety” and obsessive-compulsive disorder. At their first meeting, Holmes expressed “thoughts about killing people,” but Fenton said she didn’t think he was dangerous. She believed his preoccupation with killing others was a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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After their fourth session on April 17, she noted that he made several odd statements she didn’t understand and wrote in her notes, “psychotic level thinking?” He said his homicidal obsession was “getting worse.”

This psychiatrist got people killed with her pedantic bullshit. Allowing that guy the continued ability to purchase firearms was inexcusable.