No matter whether this killer was sick or not I have not read or heard any single one thing that he did or was involved in that did not center upon himself and ensuring his own comfort.
Anyone have anything to contest this?
What to think? Is this because people who know the nice things he did are afraid to speak up in support of him for fear of being ridiculed? Or did he really never do anything other than try to make his own self happy or at least less anxious. And if it is a fact that he was all consumed only in his own survival ~ can we excuse this selfishness because he was "sick?"
I believe he was both sick and self indulgent. And how does this, then, align with what we consider evil? Which brings into question the responsibility of those who might have been codependents in his selfishness.
One dead, sick person, by his own hand. And twenty six others dead because of his self indulgence. I believe he was evil but am having a hard time assigning responsibility to other family members at this time for their collaboration because we have such a paucity of facts.
Sick as he may have been, he didn't grow up in a vacuum. So how much weight should his family members bear in the guilt of not having had him properly evaluated and under enough control to prevent this horrendous slaughter of innocents and heros?
And I question, as a society that is experiencing these senseless slaughters more and more often, how much responsibility do we hold for not demanding and implementing something to better protect our children? Are we not also, as a society, as responsible as this killer's (whose name I refuse to type) family for his not being reported as a risk to murder children? Were they blinded by their love? Or were there no clues? Did the family try too hard to cover up or compensate or did they honestly see no danger?
DS came home after 4 tours in the Iraq war. PTSD and traumatic brain injury. Always had to carry a bottle of water with him wherever he went, constantly scanned crowds when were in public, trusted no one, divorced, holed up in the bedroom connected to the outside world only by computer, startled at each and every paper bag or piece of garbage in the path of our car (he was the convoy lead) and took 30 minutes to tie his shoes to get ready to go to church. MENSA qualified and common sense, too. Went to the Air Force Academy.
But he came home sick. Should I have called the police on him? Because, in all honesty, I wasn't sure of his or anyone else's safety.
He is fine, even wonderful, now. He went to the great Cleveland Clinic and it helped him restructure his entire life. New family, rewarding and well paying (Obama will tap him) job and seems well adjusted and even happier than he was in his "before Iraq" life.
Alotta words. To say maybe I understand the killer's mother and family not sending out an alarm because they were hopeful that their story would turn out as good as mine.
But the difference I see is that my DS, even at his sickest, worried that he was being a burden and an imposition on his old parents. DS, even in the torture of his mental confusion, had a pure heart.
Did this murderer have any heart at all?
