Originally Posted by Bestworking:
It's awful to say but you can look at him and see something is very wrong. He looks mentally challenged. If shown his picture and given no background I'd say some form of Down's Syndrome. I am not insinuating anything about people with Down's, I am commenting on his look. All the people with Down's that I have been around are very sweet natured.
Another 'wait and see' thing. Maybe there will be answers down the road, maybe not. They're calling it a racist thing. I don't believe that but most likely they'll run with that and never really try to find out what motivated him.
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I believe Roof was both mentally ill and a racsist terrorist; another case where family and friends should have intervened. Someone who abuses drugs and talks about commiting murder-suicide is a prime candidate for state mental institutions. While Roof may be mentally ill, I believe he knew right from wrong so not a candidate for the insanity plea.
There is reason to believe that if just one of the people in Dylann Roof’s life had called 911 to report that a family member of theirs (or a friend of theirs) who owned a gun and used drugs was speaking about starting a race war and killing himself, that Roof would have been picked up by police and transported to an emergency room. Once there, he might well have voiced those very same beliefs to a psychiatrist. After all, Roof wasn’t shy about sharing his bizarre opinions. That could have led to him being admitted to a locked psychiatric unit, being detoxed from street drugs and being treated with the right psychiatric medicine. And, then, all this might not have happened.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion...elp-dylann-roof.html