Toni Lavis..

Holmes' timeless advice on the art of deduction is to start by eliminating the possible.

Eliminate the necessity to eliminate the possible first. Since everything is possible, eliminating the need for elimination of all possibilities is the easy option.

So what does it matter what his mental state was? Plain evil was the outcome.

He's dead, three cheers!

Individual

*"diver dan,
having a firearm is not as severe a breach of the Law than bureaucrats who don't do their job."*

You'd better enlarge on that one, it's too crude for comment!

//Holmes' timeless advice on the art of deduction is to start by eliminating the possible.

Eliminate the necessity to eliminate the possible first. Since everything is possible, eliminating the need for elimination of all possibilities is the easy option.//

O.... kay.

No, it isn't. I recommend less time spent devoted to whatever substance(s) you abuse, and more time at your local library.

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
- A.C. Doyle, 'The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet'

too crude for comment!
diver dan,
It won't appear crude to you anymore once you grasp the truth.

The killer quite possibly had poor mental health and, if this can be proven there should be nothing wrong with saying so. However, the conversation needs to focus on increasing people's understanding of how this condition developed and what interventions might have worked.

I also dislike the way poor mental health can't be used as an excuse when a criminal is white and male, because of fear of stigmatising the mentally ill. However, when the criminal is from any other ethnic group, it is perfectly OK to talk about poor mental health. In rare cases where female criminals are acknowledged, any excuse under the sun is OK.

Australia has the same policies as police in the UK.
Australia will become what the UK is now and these videos prove it beyond any doubt.
http://youtu.be/LqY4Z1fTrMc
http://youtu.be/79TWaRCYPao