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Kazmierczak, whose first name was earlier listed as Steven, was taking some kind of medication, (Campus Police Chief) Grady said. "He had stopped taking medication and become somewhat erratic in the last couple of weeks," Grady said, declining to name the drug or provide other details.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
...and there is no dyfunctional family...

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The only thing the kind of evil we're talking about here needs in order to stay hidden is a community sufficiently motivated to deny its existence.

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Signy, my parents were comfortably middle-class, degreed people who happened to be pedophiles--the neighbors still don't know anything about it. My parents friends were in as much denial as we were. How can you rule out dysfunctional family with the kind of information available over the internet?

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Originally posted by SignyM:
I know you just can't believe that people are bron with "issues", and you like to think that everyone who goes ballistic does so as a result of some childhood trauma. In most cases, you're prolly right.

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But as brilliant, compassionate, empathetic as people can be, there is the other side of the bell curve. "People" can also be paranoid, schizophrenic, delusional etc. There are millions of ways for the brain to misfire, and far fewer for the brain the work "right".

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But my point was not to react with horror when things like this happen, but to take a deep breath. People are like squishy computers: hardware, firmware, and software. "Horrific" deeds
are not just a cases of somebody "deciding" to be bad. There is a serious malfunction back there somewhere. It may be in the "software" (What you learned growing up) and the "firmware" (how you interpret things) or in the hardware. I stopped, in a sense, reacting to these as if it were a moral issue that demanded outrage against the perp and more like a problem that needs to be solved. That's all I'm saying.

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