<What I don't like is the current push by some people to explain away Anderson's <dreadful actions by any means possible. Why?
<He may well have had a mental illness, but not all people with mental illnesses have <the urge to kill their son with a baseball bat and a knife, and not all murderers have a <mental illness.

<Posted by Suseonline, Friday, 6 November 2015 10:10:30 AM

A woman with a mental illness stole a pistol from a pistol club and shot her father dead.

Sure it is true not that not all people with mental illness will kill and it is not possible to extrapolate that all instances of domestic violence resulting in death.

Part of the screening process in hospitals for aggression risk, is there a history of involvement in the justice system, a history of drug or alcohol abuse, previous history of assault, a psychiatric illness.

A history of a mental illness is just one the risk factors, and I think that there is a strong indication that our psychiatric services are failing.

Anderson also committed suicide by cop.

This is not excusing what Anderson did, but points to a very disturbed man who our legal and psychiatric services failed.

Had interventions been effective, it is likely that that tragedy may never have happened.

I agree WollyB, both the legal and mental health system did fail this man and his son.
However, it does appear that Rosie was worried about her son having unsupervised contact with their son for very good reason.

Certainly there should be much more effective ways to keep such people away from vulnerable family members.
I think we need more mental health and legal staff working together in these cases, and a much easier way to detain violent people against their will.

Suseonline, so you admit Rosy Batty's ex was mentally ill? here's the problem? settled science shows the most likely cause of his mental illness is verbal, emotional, financial abuse from HER? psychological torture from HER? was he suffering from "battered partner syndrome"? did he act to protect his son from a worse fate? namely HER?

i was with 6 children rescued from 3 dead beat mothers yesterday, all "mothers" were drug addicts, on heroin or ice, 4 under 4 years of age. they are being cared for by a well intentioned, frazzled woman who is only addicted to tobacco & alcohol, who is also separated from the father of her daughter who just became aunty to this tragedy as she goes through puberty herself. 6 more children, 4 of them girls being raised without a loving father thanks to communist feminism, who will grow up to be single mothers, probably sub standard themselves. one of them has a dislocated hip, the older sister already looks depressed at 8.

welcome to the feminist matriarchy constructed by you & people like you. the youngest baby is 6 months & has had 3 changes of surname already as mummy was not certain who daddy was. third time lucky as the multiple DNA tests finally have a winner.

do you feel proud of what YOU have done & still defend?

Q, what is the definition of insanity? A, repeating the same experiment, expecting different results. This drivel of yours has been worsening for half a century now? at what point do we admit that communist, atheist, feminist matriarchy is a well documented, scientifically proven failure & go back to what we knew was working, namely conservative, christian, capitalist patriarchy?

"Q, what is the definition of insanity?"

Answer- someone who would write a crazy post like that above.....

As expected a typical communist female deflection or lateral logic. No direct answers to any of the facts in evidence. Just another attempt at sarcasm & avoidance or entrenching communist antisocial policies.

Q, if feminism's answers to domestic violence over the last half century are not working? will doubling down on more of the same reduce DV? or prevent any DV? or continue worsening the problem which was created by communist feminists in the first place?

i will pray for your soul in church this morning. "There is no pain worse than the prick of a guilty conscience" & feminism has many abused children to feel guilty about. Have you read any biographies of Marx? or any other prominent communists like Friedan, Sontag, Greer, Hitchens? These people despite their fame, prominence all displayed & in the case of Greer still display symptoms of self hatred, cognitive dissonance & serious mental illness.

"Mommy was a Commie" http://www.rense.com/general39/kakm.htm

"the Female Eunuch at 40" https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2010/february/1329283585/louis-nowra/better-self

“In my view,” she once explained, “the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.” An yet, in her rage against the West, she displayed no complexity in simplifying the white race as pure evil, concluding that “the truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al., don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.” http://capitalismmagazine.com/2005/01/susan-sontag-not-so-judicious/

i sleep well at night knowing that my efforts are directed at attempting if possible to defend innocent children from stone cold evil like you. Do you sleep well at night? knowing you are supporting the child abuse industry? You do realise that feminism = communism = devil worship don't you?

The posters on this site are becomes more and more bizarre
Feminist communist ? That is just indecipherable
Firstly, we just don't have any communists anywhere
A communist is focused on the distribution of wealth and income and realises that extreme inequality is the cause of most if not quite all of our ills
A communist would not be distracted with this PC sideshow - domestic violence, racism, gender ... which distracts the populace from confronting the plutocracy

A communist would limit there polemic towards revealing the diabolical failings of the neoliberal world

So don't be giving communists a bad name by equating it with feminism.

Feminism elevates a symptom to obscure the cause and thereby entraps all of us into a world of endless impotent whining.

Like most of our social causes they are impotent inventions and false dichotomies scraped from the ruins of our christian values. It divides and distracts us