re: #163 Obdicut

We have no idea if this guy was crazy or not. And your suggestion of punishment clearly wouldn’t deter him in the least. And your idea that our prisons actually put forth much effort into rehabilitation is nonsense.

I would be pretty certain the shooter was unhinged in some way. I can’t think of even a cold-blooded logical reason for someone to shoot twenty children under these conditions. He may have wanted to murder his mother, and some collateral damage* occurs, but this is well beyond that.

Arguably, he could have snapped into some sort of killing frenzy while there, but still the initial going there armed to the teeth is implying an unstable mental state at the time.

* - Poor choice of words for twenty plus innocent children and adults being shot. I apologize in advance to any believing I am trivializing the loss of life.