Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "When a Genius Teen Snaps" video.

@shannamac3974 That's the US gun policy in general. If you watched the video, you should have learned that he also had a (personal?) shotgun in his room so he had lots of opportunities earlier, too. If he had spent a bit more time practicing the gun handling before executing his plan, everybody in that house would have been dead for sure. He could have learned to quickly switch magazines and he could have started murdering with the shotgun and only switch to handgun after running out of shotgun shells. He seemed to be pretty smart and it's a shame that he cannot do anything productive in the prison. He has a lot of free time there so maybe learn computer programming and start writing software. For example, donating newly written source code to Linux kernel would be a safe option for the society to have something of value, and it would allow his life not to be totally wasted even if there's no safe way to ever release him from the prison.
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@justin_5631 I would call him psychopath but it seems reasonable to assume that he was telling the truth when he explained that he used gloves to make sure to have good enough grip with the gun even if his hands get sweaty. Definitely an intelligent guy but mentally ill for sure. He was obviously clever guy and had a shotgun and a handgun available but didn't bother to use the shotgun. If he had a full plan, he should have started with a shotgun and use handgun only later to be maximally efficient.
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The mother seemed like a realist to me. Anger and hate cannot bring back her daughter. The only thing anger and hate could accomplish is to lose their boy, too. You cannot change the past, you can only try to optimize the current state of things and the future. The mother and father seemed to think that trying to communicate with Sonny would be better than no connection at all. It seemed that the father had still some unresolved things, though. He seemed to be unhappy how the trial went but I see no reason to believe the end result from the judge would be any different no matter how the interrogation went.
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@iggyblitz8739 Mental health is poorly understood all around the world. Even here in Finland, supposedly the happiest country in the world, there are a lot of people suffering from various mental issues and the government cannot get their act straight to help those people.
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I think that he was simply replaying some previous conversation from his work instead of hearing voices. It was probably his method to calm himself to focus on something that he felt skilled in. It almost seemed that he didn't feel any remorse but he was disappointed in himself not being able to execute his killing plan. Not angry, not sad, just disappointed on lack of skill.
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@RoxyUnfiltered716 Possession as in supernatural act is definitely only imagination. But human beings can be really broken with mental illness that has been traditionally explained as possession. The problem with the possession explanation is that then that individual will be treated incorrectly. Instead of support from a real mental institute, therapy and medication they will receive prayers or something similar wishful thinking. Nobody has ever been able to demonstrate that praying or other acts to please supernatural beings has statistically more effect than luck/change alone.
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