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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
everyone keeps saying he was obviously disturbed..if it was so obvious how did he make it his 23 years without a single psych eval or anything? he couldn't of acted that crazy. his parents most likely thought he was just a troubled loner who has a hard time making/keeping friends. how often do parents think something like that would turn into a shooting rampage? even if the kid told their parents things like people should be shot, ect do you think every parent that hears this should be calling the police or something?
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There is a huge gray area where people can operate without being normal.
Case in point is a friend of mine. He has "water on the brain" and in the past twenty years has had some 14 surgeries on his brain. He's forty-six years old, but operates on the level of a sixteen year old kid. He's fully 100% medically retired from the post office and US Army, and hasn't worked in twenty years. He has a truck and an apartment, but otherwise functions as a teenager with no responsibility other than a handful of bills. The only conversations he can have is about working at the post office, his last wife, and then high school. Current events, pop culture; He no concept of what's going on in the world around him. He is utterly oblivious.
He operates as a normal human being. But the first time you met him, within five minutes, he'll either be talking about the post office, high school, or his last wife. And after you've met him a few times you figure out that the light is on, but no one is home - he's an empty shell.
Clearly he has brain damage. But both his friends and family assume that he's been tested somewhere along the line and someone has decided he is "medically fit" to be a member of society. The scary thing is that he is well armed; He has a handgun, and recently purchased an AR15.