Do you think James Holmes is schizophrenic?

Just a guess, but I'm guessing he may be bipolar.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... wyers.html

So, it is confirmed. He is mentally ill. We'll have to wait for more details, but my bet is still on catatonic schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.

it not right to say that only an insane person would kill people... if that was the case that calling it murder would be moot... and punishing people who murder would just be morally unethical...

a person who has been psychotic would know what i'm talking about... because the difference between insanity and sanity is clear as day... at least in my experience

i think if he is psychotic he should not be punished... as difficult as it is for the family of the victims to accept its just that through my own experience i know there is a really definite difference between murderer and an insane individual... but i doubt any layman would agree with me...

i don't live in the US so i wouldn't know the details of how things work there...

Fort Hood Police SWAT responds to the shooting




Location of the main cantonment of Fort Hood in Bell County



Location

Fort Hood, Texas,
United States



Coordinates

31°8′33″N 97°47′47″W



Date

November 5, 2009
ca. 1:34 pm (CST)



Attack type

Mass murder, Spree shooting



Weapon(s)

FN Five-seven pistol
Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver



Deaths

13 [1]



Injured

30 (including shooter) [1]



Suspected perpetrator

Major Nidal Malik Hasan


The Fort Hood shooting was a shooting that took place on November 5, 2009, at Fort Hood, the most populous U.S. military installation in the world, located just outside Killeen, Texas.[1] In the course of the shooting, a single gunman killed 13 people and wounded 29 others.[1] It is the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base.[2]

The sole suspect is Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army Major serving as a psychiatrist. He was shot and taken into custody by Department of the Army Civilian Police officers,[3] and is now paralyzed from the chest down.[4] Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder under the Uniform Code of Military Justice; he may face additional charges at court-martial. If he is convicted, he could be given the death penalty.[5][6]

Hasan is an American of Palestinian descent. Internal Army reports indicate officers within the Army had discussed what they characterized as Hasan's tendencies toward radical Islam since 2005. Investigations before and after the shooting discovered e-mail communications between Hasan and Yemen-based cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who quickly declared Hasan a hero, as "fighting against the U.S. army is an Islamic duty". After communications between the two were forwarded to FBI terrorism task forces in 2008, they determined that Hasan was not a threat prior to the shooting and that his questions to al-Awlaki were consistent with medical research.

In November 2009, after examining the e-mails and previous terrorism investigations, the FBI had found no information to indicate Hasan had any co-conspirators or was part of a broader terrorist plot. The U.S. later classified Anwar al-Awlaki as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and the UN considered Awlaki to be associated with al-Qaeda; Awlaki was killed by a U.S. predator drone missile attack in 2011.[7] One year after the Fort Hood shooting, the motivations of the perpetrator were not yet established; government agencies still had not officially linked Hasan to any radical terrorist groups

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hood_shooting

I retract my previous stance. Here's why:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk6OOvgjYdY

The James Holmes Conspiracy (2012 Full Documentary)

MirageXD wrote:....
Let's hope that the investigators won't be influenced by the public as it happened in Breivik's process. They first said that he has schizophrenia, and after some public pressure, they concluded that he doesn't. Yet, they agree that he has multiple personality disorders and paranoid psychosis, which is supposed to make him sane.

The best thing they could do is to administer an antipsychotic to such people. There is a high chance that it would open their eyes to the point they would realize what they've done. Seems like the best punishment to me.

The shrinks that concluded he had schizophrenia didn't check for personality disorders. The shrinks don't agree that he had "multiple personality disorders and paranoid psychosis". The second team diagnosed him with narcissistic personality disorder and anti-social personality disorder. There was also a shrink witness claiming he's seeing signs of Asperger's and Tourettes.

I think he has schizoid personality disorder though. Which would make all of them half-right.

Islamic army in iraq-Depression of tragedy- iraq before and after

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkzuZZZSFq0