(facepalms at the continued “argument” that’s just people yelling at each other
Whatever. Not like I expected it to stop or anyone to be more concerned with being dignified than being “right”. Oh well.)
Yeah, it’s pretty clear that he’s a massive attention whore, which is perhaps the “funniest” thing about this: the Aurora (Colorado) Police Department didn’t want to release his picture. …Too bad they only got to say this like 8 hours at earliest after CNN had flooded the airwaves with his picture and name ad nauseum.
Even if you killed him with the “justice” that fishjie and some others are calling for, he’s already won. Most people will eventually forget about the incident, sure, since they always do until something like it happens again to remind them or their direct victims of it. Still, his face will already be the last one that people remember before any of the actual victims, especially since he’ll probably still be alive.
It would actually be legitimately “hilarious” to people who like dark comedy, at least in the “oh, everything makes sense, I didn’t think mad scientists existed still” way. The news is basically digging around for “answers” anyway, might as well through them a bone, especially given the number of people in this country who are against (higher) education.
As for insanity defenses, yeah, that probably won’t work. Those pretty much never work though, even if the person is actually legitimately “disturbed” and has been off-and-on for a while, if not for an entire lifetime.
Also, depending on how you define “insanity”, especially if you’re including said sociopathy there, then he could very easily have been part of that neuroscience program and still been “insane”.
Shrug.
It’s his (family’s) lawyer considering his family has, understandably, yet to appear in public between various people’s (over)reactions and the media being the usual ravenous vultures they are.
