Altered State,

My BF has worked with the mentally ill for about 15 years now. He was getting very upset at the news, because they're all blaming VT and Columbine, and any horrible killing on mental health....My BF says that it takes a pure sociopath to do these things. Depression, schizophrenia, etc, doesn't make someone just snap and do a mass murder, according to him.

We also watched a news report, where they were talking about the intense planning these mass killings took. The news report said that the killers had to be pretty aware of what they were doing to do all the planning.

So anyway, I guess what it comes down to, and this is only the opinion of my BF, who actually goes up to the state mental hospitale where there are people convicted of murder who are actually "insane". These poeple have used the insanity plea but actually are insane, and they wouldn't be able to have an intelligent conversation on the internet like you and I can. He's described these people to me, they're not coherant, so I seriously doubt those of us who are able to post on here could ever truthfully use the insanity plea.

Again though, this is the opinion of one person, from his own experience. But I don't think you'd snap and go on a mass killing spree.......