December 18th, 2012 at 01:51am
@ SuchASyn
Someone seeming mentally stable doesn't mean they actually are. James Holmes may have not show signs when he entered the theater but from what was reported, he did show signs in other aspects of his life. Holmes belonged to a gun club that he had gotten kicked out of only a few months prior to the massacre. The gun club removed him from their ranks because they saw him showing strange behavior and got scared of him, but they chose not to tell someone who could have helped. The Aurora massacre probably could have been prevented if they had alerted someone of the strange behavior but as usual, they turned their backs on someone who needed help. We will never be able to fully prevent massacres, someone will always slip through the cracks, but we can do everything in our power to try and prevent them. Most people who are mentally ill, however, will show signs. Sure there are some who never show signs, but the majority of people suffering from a mental illness will show at least one sign of it. We just choose to ignore those because mental illness still has bad stigma attached to it in the U.S. Americans prefer to pretend mental illnesses don't exist.
We can prevent these things but first, we need to change our views on guns and mental illness.
Ahh, see that I did not read! Thank you. I agree, again! We really can't prevent massacres--We have plenty of truth of that; Jonestown for example and even when Hilter ruled. And it's silly what people say about others who are mentally ill--you're judgement is clearly clouded. Do I feel remorse for the criminal? Yes, but only enough because no one realized that they too are victims themselves. It's just as you said: we choose to simply ignore it.