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The Sikh temple, I agree it could have helped in Aurora random thoughts Send a noteboard - 07/08/2012 03:01:43 PM
I don’t know but I suspect that in Aurora the shooter was clinically insane and likely suffered from some form of severe delusional handicap, something similar to Charles Whitman who had a brain tumor and killed 14 people at UT. I am not sure we can always help those people but we can identify them and if nothing else get them off the street. People who are otherwise fairly normal until something goes chemically wrong with their brain and they broke. The guy at the temple seems to be more of guy who had a life filled with hate and ignorance and decided his desire to hurt people aligned with his desire to stop living his miserable life. Him I don’t think we could have helped with more funding for mental health.
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do you have strong opinions/feelings about government mental health funding? - 07/08/2012 06:19:53 AM 806 Views
There's a fairly legit stigma attached to 'homicidal psychopath' - 07/08/2012 10:05:33 AM 647 Views
I think we need to spend more on mental health but I doubt it would have changed this tragedy - 07/08/2012 01:58:09 PM 564 Views
The Aurora massacre might have been prevented, but not the Sikh Temple shooting - 07/08/2012 02:14:13 PM 573 Views
The Sikh temple, I agree it could have helped in Aurora - 07/08/2012 03:01:43 PM 606 Views
I would like to see a graph... - 07/08/2012 02:12:46 PM 616 Views
Me, too, though that would not establish causality. - 09/08/2012 01:02:16 AM 603 Views
No stronger than my feelings on public healthcare generally. - 08/08/2012 09:16:19 PM 672 Views
A local example. . . - 09/08/2012 08:25:36 PM 893 Views

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