Shots fired inside Armstrong Int’l Airport
Mar 22, 2015, 8:19 pm
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As someone who lives with a mental illness, I really hate to see this used as an excuse for criminal behavior. There are plenty of people with mental illness who are law abiding citizens.
Mar 22, 2015, 9:07 pm
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I think in this context, it's being used as an explanation, rather than an excuse. And if he had the kind of mental illness that makes you hear voices that tell you to do things, that's relevant.
Mar 23, 2015, 3:55 am
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Mar 23, 2015, 10:22 am
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Borderline sane/insane, yet criminally functional fits the description of the perpetrator of this attack at MSY.
Mar 23, 2015, 2:05 pm
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Mar 23, 2015, 2:11 pm
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Extreme affinity to extremely twisted dogmatism of a sort that comes from believers in one or more mystical voices fits some -- but not all -- versions of what is sane. Are sociopaths and psychopaths all that readily distinguishable, especially on very close examination? Not so sure about that.
Borderline sane/insane, yet criminally functional fits the description of the perpetrator of this attack at MSY.
Borderline sane/insane, yet criminally functional fits the description of the perpetrator of this attack at MSY.
1. did you not mean "versions of what is insane"?
2. I've never heard this legal term before so I'll bite, what is "criminally functional"?
Mar 23, 2015, 2:44 pm
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2. It's not legalese. Functional enough to deliberately design and knowingly execute an act that is criminal in nature.
Mar 24, 2015, 11:46 am
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Wow, just reading through the links; I didn't realize that the Sheriff shot one of the TSA agents while shooting the wacko. Those security spots at MSY are pretty confined; I can only imagine how shocking it must have been.
Mar 24, 2015, 4:07 pm
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