re: #265 Targetpractice

So far, I’ve never met a wingnut who used the “mental illness” defense who didn’t think that the “solution” was to just lock them all up. Not better screening, not more programs to help them, not even spending on more counselors or better access to medications. Just throw them in the loony bin and lock the doors behind ya, because they’re “dangerous” and can’t be allowed out in public.

It goes without saying that none of them believe they’re in any way “mentally ill” because they don’t want to shoot anyone dead…today.

“Mentally ill” is another one of those words that doesn’t mean anything when they say it.

It’s just a place-holder for whatever they need to fit in there.

Want to disavow someone taking wingnut logic to its violent conclusion? Mentally ill.
Want to dismiss a critic as fundamentally and incontrovertibly unserious? Mentally ill.

I suspect if they ever did apply themselves to defining mental illness, their standards would be like those of the Soviets….