Killings about more than mental health  To the Editor:  I’m
writing this because of recent events — the murders of those
innocent children and the teachers.  The whole nation, at least
many in the nation, thinks the man who did that, did it because
he had mental health issues. That is a copout, a way  to try to
explain what he did, and why.  But when it comes down to it, it
is just not true. He killed his mother first. The report said
that his mother was rigid. He had issues with his mother and
took it out on her students.  It was wrong, but it still had
nothing to do with mental health. He felt his mom paid more
attention to the students than him, and he hated her and the
students for that.  Why he resorted to what he did, only he will
know. It is nothing to do with mental health and all to do with
his own choices. Millions of people have mental health issues.
One in two people suffer from a serious mental illness. One in
four knows someone with a serious mental illness. To say that he
did that because he ha