“And now we have other spineless idiots wanting to make amends for the deaths of 3 people and the wounding of more by labeling this woman with a disorder making it the fault of something nebulous rather than her own inability to control herself.”

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! Here is a “hate” crime–a woman’s hatred toward subjecting herself to the machinations of a tenure committee, hatred she chose to express in a calculated manner with a firearm, and by doing so, recklessly abandoning four children.

“The National Institute of Mental Health reports that One in four adults-approximately 57.7 million Americans-experience a mental health disorder in a given year.”–NAMI website. (Tcobb @5, perhaps, would channel Che and preside over the imprisonments and executions?? No doubt certain trolls would volunteer services as diagnosticians and medication managers.)

Wouldn’t these horrible shootings be much more prevalent if the cause were simply mental illness? Is it really reasonable to ignore the numbers (inflated though they be by IED and other disorders du jour)? But then again, certain youthful political pundits like to, yes, liberally apply the diagnosis of schizophrenia to society’s dire, pressing issues–naturally large versus surgically-enhanced breasts. Yet, see also http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/36/9/10.full.

Moral turpitude is another matter entirely. Can it exist independently of mental illness? That’s the money question–pun intended. Power and position (and all the perks they entail) certainly are mind-altering substances…