Jaylen Fryberg, WA School Shooter: Where Was Grace?

Charting Course ^ | 10/24/2014 | Steve Berman

[lifeofgrace]

The two incidents you describe a NOT ‘blind rage’. They were both premeditated acts.

Context is an important concept, one you lack. I never claimed that the Sandy Hook or Aurora shootings were blind rage.

Sandy Hook was the act of a mentally ill homicidal maniac, and for that matter, so was Aurora. I also think that Jaylen's act was premeditated. I think he thought about it for a long time before acting. Premeditation and rage are not mutually exclusive.

[TalBlack]

“Bear with me if I may be completely transparent for a moment. “

I was referring to whomever wrote what followed the above line.

The word ‘blind’ in blind rage leaves the operator literally unaware of some or all of his response. Those two described incidents delineate premeditation.

[lifeofgrace]

“Bear with me if I may be completely transparent for a moment. “ I was referring to whomever wrote what followed the above line.

I suppose the legal or clinical definition of "blind rage" might apply to exculpatory, evidentiary, or diagnostic purposes. I am neither a lawyer nor a psychologist, therefore I meant "an irrational, burning rage in which my actions are not representative of my normal behavior". But "blind rage" as a term in common usage seemed to fit better.