You got it! We're just a bunch of Pollyannas who think that a mass murderer bears the responsibility for his crimes. How utterly naive of us!
Haven't we learned a single thing from the Sixties, when the super-intelligent Liberal Elites of our nation made the astounding discovery that criminals aren't responsible for their actions, but rather it's "the fault of Society, who forced them to be that way"?
We're just too stupid to see the blinding truth you're shining down on us, that MM is the true victim.
Anyone who hates Pentecostals can clearly see it's his mother's church that is at fault here. Why, they practically did everything but pull the trigger!
And anyone who had an awful relationship with their mothers can instantly see it was she who is The True Perp here.
And anyone who hates homeschoolers and the threat they pose to the teachers' unions can see who the real guilty party is!
And anyone related in any way to the mental health profession, counseling, etc, can instantly see it definitely wasn't the fault of the myriad mental health professionals and counselors who the boy saw, but was rather the fault of the parents for not sending him to more of these people, or that they didn't send him to the right ones. And of course it's always the fault of Society for not spending ten times more tax $$ on mental health than we do now.
Oh, don't you just love it when these things happen, because it's such a fantastic learning experience for those of us in the Ignorant Unwashed Masses to sit at the feet of the wise gurus who come out of their caves after mass killings like this, and teach us great lessons of life, by pointing the fingers of blame at everybody except the finger that pulled the trigger.
What a tragedy that Agatha Christie wrote all those great murder mysteries in the pre-Sixties era. The characters waste the entire novel trying to find out who pulled the trigger or poisoned the food. If only she had been born later, she could have put those marvelous writing skills to better use and given us truly great plots, where the shooter or poisoner or knife-wielder is revealed in the first few pages. Once we know who this "victim" is, then the detective can spend the rest of the novel tracking down the True Guilty Ones responsible for making the shooter/poisoner into the person s/he is today.
I’m not aware of having said that the shooter was not responsible.