Hi Mavs,

A family friend's husband was diagnosed with bi-polar.
She ended up divorcing him. When on medication he was
a lovely bloke. However, he would keep going off his
meds. One evening she woke up with him standing by
the bed with a knife in his hand. She became afraid
of him.

He killed himself a year later.

There's so much we as a society have to learn.

I believe that far too many people refuse to see the difference between mental illness & absolute self-centredness.
It is just so easy to claim mental instability rather than admitting to trowing tantrums. The assessors of mental illness are mostly of the latter variety themselves. As long as the pretence of illness is allowed to override the requirement of responsibility we'll not find solutions.

How disappointing for some of the Usual Suspects the blokes name was Joe and not Muhammad, I'm sure they were all ready to unload bucket full.

As for the rubbish from Indy, that this tragedy can in some way be linked to what he calls "Leftism", were Martin Bryant and Brenton Tarrant influenced by your so called "Leftism".

were Martin Bryant and Brenton Tarrant influenced by your so called "Leftism".
Paul1405,
I wouldn't say influenced by Leftism but definitely affected by it. As for Cauchi's name you'd better think twice before trying your hate speech tactic again. I know former eastern Europeans who adopted Irish/English names here. Any Ali or Ahmed can change their name to Joel or as in your case Paul !

Hi Foxy

I don't think your line "There's so much we as a society have to learn." is helping things.

"Society to blame" is already being conflated on many social websites by those with an axe to grind or or obsession to push.

In their world everyone is to blame except Cauchi.

Put another way, being TOO understanding is often exploited by some with mixed up feelings about society.

Just wait for them to blame the police.

Hi Mavs,

Perhaps I didn't express myself well.

I wasn't blaming society for what Cauchi did.

What I was trying to say that as a society there
was much we needed to learn about mental illness
and how to treat it. I was not trying to excuse
Cauchi's behaviour.