Crazy man with a gun
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We have a lot of crazy men (it’s always a man). We have lot of guns (it’s always a gun).
Violence can be more or less political, and the concept of mental illness is itself a subject of moral, scientific, and political dispute (Thomas Szasz: “If you talk to God that’s called prayer; if God talks to you that’s called schizophrenia”), and the world and the people in it are very complicated, but when some young man who “kept to himself,” and lived in his mother’s basement — why it it always, always the same story? — kills a bunch of strangers with an assault rifle, that’s not politics in any but the craziest sense — it’s just madness, if that word means anything at all.
Related thoughts on madness, evil, and politics in the context of the Elliot Rodger murders.