He's as mentally ill as every other rightwing Republican.

[Tobin S.]

3. Here's the deal, as far as I'm concerned.

Mentally ill people do bad things sometimes. Every once in a while they do horrendous things. However, a lot of times people make the jump to "he must be mentally ill" because they don't understand how a normal person could do something horrendous. The vast majority of people in prison who have done horrendous things are judged to be sane. People somehow overlook that fact.

I don't think it can be said enough. It has been shown that people who are mentally ill are much more likely to be victims of violent crime, at the hands of sane people, then they are to be perpetrators. If you look at the data, that's what it says. I don't have time right now, but maybe later today or this weekend I'll look up those studies that show that.