[Tommy]

On behalf of realists everywhere (assuming uncapitalized realists are the same as capitalized Realists), I'll disagree. This realist is saying, "There's more to this story than what we've seen so far.

Those of you who are old enough may remember the case in 1966 when a 25 year old student at the University of Texas killed more than a dozen people in and around a tower on campus before he was killed. Yes, he had had some trouble with the Marines, his father was widely described as a demanding perfectionist, and his mother had recently left home and filed for divorce. Life was tough for him as it is for most people at some point in their lives. But what was different about the shooter is that a large, cancerous brain tumor was discovered during the autopsy. My personal opinion is that the pressures he was suffering would not have caused those muderous actions in a person with a healthy brain.

When I see someone like the shooter in Huntsville, AL or the guy who crashed himself into the IRS, I don't think I'm seeing a normal person pushed to the brink by the IRS, their employer or anyone else. I see a person whose brain is unable to process stress and handle life like most of us.