Given that multiple homicides in the US draw international interest, media reports highlighting a perpetrator’s mental illness or describing insanity pleas inform perceptions of mental illness worldwide. Loughner’s shooting of 19 people in 2011, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, attracted global attention, as did the court-ordered evaluation of his mental competency.
美国的多起杀人案引起了国际关注，媒体报道总是强调袭击者的精神病或精神失常状况，这形成了世界对精神病的感知。拉夫纳在2011年枪击了19人，包括女国会议员吉福兹（Gabrielle Giffords），这吸引了全世界的目光，法院下令对其精神能力的评估也被全世界所熟知。