Boston Bombing aftermath, any similarity to the Lincoln assassination aftermath?

[My Name Is Kate]

Having had my life wrecked from day one by someone who was supposedly "criminally insane", I have a hard time finding within myself much sympathy for such people. Surely they have all had at least a moment or two of lucidity and rationality at some point in their lives, where they realized that they were a threat to other people, or had already hurt other people, yet they did nothing to stop their future criminal behavior, which they knew in those lucid moments (however few and far between they may have been) that they would commit again and again.

Even "people" like Ted Bundy had such moments, and although his apologists have tried to convince people that there was something genetically wrong with his brain, which prevented him from feeling empathy for other people, I would rather argue that the empathy center of his brain never developed because he had no interest, right from the beginning, in developing it. Yes, he was abused, but so were alot of other people, and in much worse ways, yet they did not turn into monsters.