So, it appears that the media has now decided that Adam Lanza was “mentally ill.” Did I miss something or was this actually established somewhere? I’ve seen articles that describe him as having Asperger’s Syndrome, but that’s not the same thing as “mental illness.”

It seems to me that this label of “mentally ill” is being put on him right now just because he did something so evil that people can’t understand it in any other way except to make the killer an “other,” someone not like them. Mentally ill.

But I don’t believe it’s right to say that committing horrible crimes is an automatic indicator of mental illness. Human beings can and do choose to commit evil acts without being crazy.