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The tumor was in the base of his brain. Your self control and inhibition are in your frontal lobe and that area was not affected. So he had self control, just chose not to exercise it. There's no excuse for what he did.

We pity that person and his victims.

Exactly. Why is it if i feel for this side, it implies i dont feel for that side.

And who knows that there’s something wrong with them, and wants an autopsy to show people that it wasn’t just pure evil?

Someone who's recently begun having crippling headaches and ego-dystonic violent impulses they never used to have.

He wasn't unable to determine between right and wrong. Yes he was more aggressive, but he still chose his actions and planned them out meticulously.

Tumor didn't affect the inhibition part of his frontal lobe and he pivotal knew what he was doing was wrong

I guess. That doesn't excuse it though.

Who is excusing it? Nobody said" this is okay", they're saying "he's also a victim here". "reason" is not synonymous with "excuse".

Well let's just hope you never get one of those tumours shall we.

We are, for the most part, our brains.

Exactly. Sadly, there's usually a pattern of mass shooters exhibiting mental health/psychiatric conditions. I don't condone their actions but do feel slightly sorry for them that nothing could be done to help them before things escalated for them to the point of wanting to harm and kill others.

Don't make it a law that everyone is entitled to own a gun, then the people who enter a crisis will smash some windows or get into a bar fight, rather than use military grade weapons to kill.

Then they will just end up using knives, hammers, or baseball bats. Locally, for all those who use guns in a mental crisis, there are just as many that have used other weapons to kill in a crisis.

While this is true, you can kill or injure a lot more people with a gun than you can in the same time-frame with a knife or a baseball bat.

Yes but they do significantly less damage. An AR fires 45 rounds per minute, how many can you stab in 60 seconds?

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I don't feel a need to empathize. Sure, it's bad luck it happened to him...but the fact is he killed people he loved, and then went sniping innocent folk from the safety of a tower. My feels go for them, not the f****n killer..

Your concerns should go to both. It wasn't his fault. As Cecil said above, he didn't ask for the tumor in his head. He never chose for it. The 'fact' is that he didn't do it out of pure spite, most likely the tumor (that caused more fear and aggression than normal) that pressed him to do it. Get that mouth right.

I thought they were called donkey jackets! (Sorry, I'm joking.)