Why do news outlets always use the most morbid, freakish photo of a 'criminal' they can find?
Surely there are other photos of Lanza (and other "deranged psychos"
that would remind us that they are/were (at one point in their lives) human ... someone's son, brother, friend, whatever.
Why must we vilify them even after they're dead? Does it comfort our collective psyche to be able to picture them as differentiated from the rest of us as possible? Does it allow us to bury our own shortcomings as a people that someone who was 'one of us' could reach that state of rage, confusion or desperation?
Fact is, until that moment in time, he WAS one of us - probably a very sad and emotionally tortured one of us - & I think we all need to be reminded of that as a means to look at how we treat each other and how we treat mental/emotional illness in this country.
I'm not defending his actions but geez, c'mon.
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