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Psychological Implications of the James Holmes Case

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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...