You write: `It is not God that is mad because video games…' This sentence becomes rather incoherent. You seem to be speaking for God, and you seem to be saying that God is not mad about the occult, vampires and violent video games, because, after all, there have been violent operas in the past, and so you believe that this proves God is not mad about…

Do you really want to imply that the violence in `Hamlet' and `MacBeth' is no different than the violence in `Basic Instinct' or some other modern cinematic bloodbath?

Also, it's not clear if you're telling Emily Schrader to `grow up' or if you are just telling everyone who doesn't agree with you to grow up.

My aunt spent 40 years working with mentally ill children prone to violence. They are a danger to themselves and others and loved ones & caregivers need more leeway in dealing with them than normal people.

Thats what I see stilk hapoeninng with kids and adults today in regard to various levels of emotional problems and mental illness. Sure it's more commom for people to see psychologists and psychiatrists but there is still that stigma that keeps people from talking freely about their challenges and getting the help they need.

I also think that governments in general are not set up right to give the help to people who need it. The bueracracy can kill you.

I do think mental illness and addictions need to be solemn about more and bought to the forefront of the discussipn, not just to discuss and make people more aware but to help make changes in policy and make it easier for people to get the help they need.

But that is not usually the case. Some may have borderline symptoms, but there are plenty that clearly have the potential for violence, and the way the laws & policies are set up now, parents have few options until the child turns violent. Often, those options are temporary measures that leave the parents on their own again, even after a violent outburst.

This is a phenomenal piece by the mother of a boy that, by her own scared admission, could be capable of something like this:

http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/thinking-unthinkable.html

It's not about locking up people that seem a bit odd. You write that, "by associating 'mental illness' with evil people who shoot innocent children, you’re insulting the vast majority of people who live peacefully their whole lives with such current diagnoses as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and any other “disorder” that society currently catalogues (remember when homosexuality was a mental illness?).

I won't make assumptions about your experiences with those with mental illness, but I have had a few. A friend in high school was schizophrenic (which you incorrectly imply may be like the way homosexuality used to be viewed). One night he drove home one of my best friends from a party. My best friend described it as one of the most terrifying experiences of his life, and that he was praying he'd make it home safely.

I have also had a mentally ill man (as he later admitted) that at first blush simply seemed "different" try to pull a knife on me insisting we become blood brothers.

No one is saying that the geeks should be put away (I was a geek in high school!). People are saying that people that there need to be much better mechanisms for those that clearly have problems to ensure that they are unable to get guns BEFORE they commit a crime.

Lets just call it what it is. Evil. A person who can be thought of as generally in there right mind did and evil thing. In this case they used a gun etc…As our long history tells us though, other evil men have used many other devices besides guns to kill innocent victims.

The word needs to stop denying that evil exists because it does and this is just one more example of it.