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". . . What we need instead is a cool-headed and sober analysis to find out why so many people, in the prime of life, in the wealthiest and most prosperous society in history, are willing to casually murder scores of strangers – and usually kill themselves in the process.
Until we answer that question, massacres are going to continue, with or without AR-15s. So long as they do continue, the rest of us need all the self-protection – and freedom to defend ourselves – that we can get."
Stop Mistaking Evil for Mental Illness . . . "As our culture grows more and more secularized, it has become a common practice to describe those who commit widespread acts of violence – especially if such violence involves the death of multiple human beings – as "crazy." Some of this is tongue-in-cheek, but much of it is sincere. I believe that this is the direct result of the psychiatric community attempting to redefine what is moral.
For decades, we have witnessed the psychiatric community taking acts long considered evil, or at least immoral and "illegal, and deeming them a "psychological disorder" that needs to be cured. It's good for business, I suppose.
"However, it's a disaster for the culture. As C.S. Lewis lamented in his essay "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment," when it comes to crime and punishment, we too often are facing off with those who believe "that all crime is more or less pathological." Thus, instead of the criminal "getting what he deserves" – what used to be called "justice" – we must heal or cure him, and, as Lewis puts it, "punishment becomes therapeutic.' "
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