Ok, I am going to comment
, the following is MY OPINION, nothing more. My opinion and a dollar and fifty cents will buy you a coke most anywhere but not everywhere.
This thread has linked murders, mass murderers, to mental illness. Not all mass murderers are mentally ill. The legal definition of mental illness, as far as crimes are concerned, is very strict and probably differs state to state.
While many people think anyone who has killed a massive amount of people must be insane that premise is far from true. A machine gunner in any War has killed a massive amount of people yet they are not considered insane. Military pilots killed massive amounts of people with bombs, and on, and on and on. Killing a massive amount of people, at one time, is not a test of ones sanity.
You can not recognize a murderer by his eyes. You can not pick out a “crazy” person by his eyes. You can not pick out a mentally ill person by his eyes. Many serial killers were/are very nice, likable, personable individuals with beautiful eyes and they have killed a massive amount of people. Often times without a gun, and without being legally insane. The FBI reports that several serial killers are operating in the USA at any given time.
Large institutions for mentally ill do not work. This is a proven fact. Moving any class of people to a restrictive environment is unworkable, against international law in most cases, and crazy in and of itself. Consider the issues we and other countries have with holding terrorists, which cannot be help on US soil because of what we do to them.
There is a difference between the mentally ill and the criminally insane. People are not cars, they cannot be fixed. There is a difference between a drive by-gang shooting, and a frustrated angry armed person killing groups of people. But neither of these mass murders are judged mentally ill.
I simply do not understand what the linkages presented here are between mentally ill people and the massive amount of shooters we have in the USA, many of who are not mentally ill. I find the thread confusing