You read everything I said wrong. I wasn't talking about the legal part. I was talking about how you seem to think that mental illness causes all crime.
Look at all these posts you've made about him having a mental illness when there were no signs of it. He was some doctor guy studying neuroscience or something. He might have had a mental illness, but I doubt it.
I'm going to be completely honest and say that yes I don't know whether he is mentally ill or not but that's what we're going to find out when he has a psychological evaluation. I still can't figure out why you think I blame all crime on mental illness. All I'm saying is that the fact that I'm impressed with the statistics implies that I'm not blaming all crime on mental illness.
You're blaming what he did on mental illness when there is no reason to do so. You seem to think that every shooting that ever happened was caused by a mental illness when a lot of them aren't.
I never said I know everything about mental illnesses. I just know that there are so many people prescribed with depression that it can't possibly be correctly diagnosed. There's also a lot of people who are diagnosed with ADHD or ADD and they don't have it and I'm not convinced that disease is real, but I'm not sure that is even a mental illness.
Also this is relevant to the thread because I'm calling you out for things said in this thread. If I were to come into this topic yelling at you because you killed my dog 4 years ago, that would be irrelevant.
I've never said that, "This man should be freed immediately because he is definitely mentally ill!". This whole time I've been arguing with people who want anyone, diagnosed mental illness or not, to be executed without any sympathy to their condition. All I've been saying is that because he murdered a bunch of people, referred to himself as, "The Joker" and other people interviewed said that he was a loner, I think it warrants an evaluation to rule out insanity.
Also, you cannot be acquitted from a crime for ADHD or depression. If you read the source I posted when I was talking about the insanity defense and how much it's used, you'd see that you need to be insane to the point you were not in control of your actions. Staring off into space while your science teacher gives a lecture doesn't fit that criteria.
