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Tobin S.

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1. This place went crazy after those shootings.
Mon Dec 24, 2012, 07:29 PM
Dec 2012

A lot of people made a lot of assumptions and jumped to a lot of conclusions without really knowing anything about Adam Lanza aside from his shooting a lot of little kids.

The focus turned to the gungeoneers and a few of them tried to scapegoat mentally ill folks. And, of course, everyone knew Lanza had paranoid psychotic schizoid manic clinical shityerpants schizophrenia. After all, only mentally ill people get incredibly angry.

Logic gave way to emotion in a lot of people here and they demanded some bloodletting of their own, figuratively speaking. This post is the most controversial thing I've said over the whole deal. Normally when people unfairly attack mentally ill people I'll be right in the fray if I know it's happening. All I could do was stand back and watch this time for the most part. I didn't feel like anything I was going to say would have made a difference...maybe that was wrong.

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