Basically, he went out of his way to be a total boy scout prior to his rampage specifically to avoid drawing any undesirable attention that would disrupt methodical planning and preparation that took place over years (which in some ways is the most disturbing thing about it: Despite years actively putting the pieces in place for his rampage there were no warning signs for friends and neighbors until he unleashed it.) That, and the fact he fully understood the difference between right and wrong well enough to apparently consider the massacre a literal "necessary evil" (he openly stated that he expected his acts would rightly be viewed as reprehensible but that he felt his holy war required he commit what he acknowledges was an atrocity) made me very curious about how his mental evaluation would go.

Realistically, Breivik was probably no more likely to ever again see the light of day than Manson is, for the same reasons. Had they determined him sane they would have put him in prison for twenty-one years and STILL put him in a psych ward for the rest of his life after that; now he will just go straight to the psych ward. Either way, he was virtually guaranteed to be locked up for the rest of his life, as he obviously should be. He may be better off; I do not know how it is here, but I have always heard that people who commit violent crimes against children are at least as much pariahs in US prisons as they are on the street (again I cite Jeffrey Dahmer, who only survived a year and a half in prison, making that far solely because the first attack failed to kill him.)