Make sense? Someone angry, depressed, hears about a shooting, thinks WTH--I'll just shoot up, die

[bobbieinok]

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. The huge, vast majority of people who are angry or depressed do not do this, so what are you saying?

[bobbieinok]

3. Just wondering if maybe some might. See it as a release of pain and pressure?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. This kind of thinking is harmful to people with mental health issues, who are already marginalized

and seen with suspicion. I encourage you to self-delete.

[bobbieinok]

7. Sorry. Didn't think of that view of question

[Skittles]

2. no

[nolabear]

4. This was not an impulse based on psychological pain.

Mental health? Well, sure. Nothing healthy about senseless, random killing of innocents. But there’s no info yet, except he was young, had a weapon that appears to be at least semi-automatic, and walled into a very crowded store at ten a.m. intending to kill many innocent people. As the man on MSNBC is saying, in cases like this people don’t just snap. That’s a whole different set of actions.



I’ll edit this to say it’s possible he was utterly delusional and thought disordered. But it’s still not the depressed, unhappy person motif.

[lunasun]

5. No and I would not want our society to think it does