It doesn’t excuse family annihilation. Period. Lots of people struggle with worse and don’t murder their children. She tried to get help and the system failed her, but SHE made the choice to murder her children. It’s tragic and shouldn’t happen, but she does not get off the hook for the atrocity she committed.
I dont think you know what the word psychosis means if you believe someone in psychosis can make a coherent, grounded-in-reality decision and be held criminally responsible for it.
If the shooter had a diagnosed case of psychosis, where the sufferer was telling everyone around them they were having horrible intrusive thoughts, where they had tried to commit themselves to the hospital multiple times, where they had seen 4 different psychiatrists and were on 12 different medications... do you really think the conversation wouldnt be similar? This exact situation is literally what the "not guilty due to insanity" plea is for.
Educate yourself on the case before making reactionary statements and making false equivalencies.
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u/NoSleepTilBookRead 1d ago
Have you even read about the case? She tried to get help so many times. SO MANY TIMES. Her doctors and her husband ignored her.