I didn ' t say he was perfectly sane . People who are mentally ill still don ' t do things totally at random . People shooting up schools don ' t pick schools as targets at random either . It can be either that schools seems like easy targets , them remembering having a bad time at school , or both . Not sure you how to get the the idea that I have no idea what mental illness is . Psychotic people very frequently latch on to religious themes for their delusions . However , people don ' t have to be psychotic to do crazy stuff . They can simply have a moral inferiority complex beaten into them in a PTSDlike manner , then get violent in some way that they think proves their moral superiority . <| sep |># s I know for some who had read the books that this was probably not as shocking but in a pure television perspective Ned Stark dying was one of , if not the biggest shock in memory for myself . No one makes me feel unsafe like Game of Thrones does . There are probably some soap opera characters i could name as a well but after a while the body list piles up haha