Psychological Implications of the James Holmes Case
I'm not a former famous baseball player, and I'm not anyone that has anything to gain by taking a stand one way or another in cases such as the James Holmes case. But I do work in the mental health field. I'm a professional with a masters degree, and for the most part I live a normal life, with normal interests and a busted up knee. I'm not particularly mad at our government, and while I hate a being around a heavy police presence, I benefit from the services of our police. I pay my taxes, I'm paying back my student loan granted to me by my government. I hate the nightly news because to me it's a well-designed infomercial. In fact, I have no business writing about the case outside of how it affects my life. The James Holmes shooting up of a movie theater in Aurora is one crazy story that does impact mental health and thus impacts the way I will be doing business at some point. But what if this story was assembled by our government as so many...