The Demented Psychoanalysis of James Holmes, the Colorado Shooter

The state has ruled James Holmes is sane and of course it did as no-one ever gets off on an insanity defense because then the state can't kill you.  The definitions of insanity were the novel part.

I know killing is 'legally wrong'
I should get punished for killing
It is wrong to kill children

So far we've covered every G.I. who had anything to do with Iraq.  There was no valid law to support it and they knew what they did was wrong.  All kinds of children got killed.


In Holmes' skewed worldview, each life he took was worth a point, adding value to his own life. If his life had value, he reasoned, he wouldn't have to kill himself. But he said he never wanted to build life points by taking the lives of children.  (CNN:  A look inside the 'broken' mind of James Holmes)

There, in one twisted paragraph, is the U.S. foreign policy.

He had accomplished his mission, even if getting arrested was the price he had to pay. But he said he gained nothing from injuring people or leaving them behind to grieve for the dead. He spoke of the 70 people wounded as "collateral damage."

He could be a spokesman for the Pentagon rather than standing trial for his life.

It all comes out the same except the U.S. glows with righteousness and James Holmes is a barking lunatic ... who is ruled sane and will wind up on Death Row.  Only in America.