NOT GOOD, Connecticut shooter was diagnosed with Aspergers..
If she was his only human contact, then she is solely responsible for his conduct.
No, he alone is solely responsible for his own conduct.
We all influence eachother, we all cause things to happen. Many states have laws requiring people to lock up guns so that their children don't have access to them. To prevent children from being killed.
She failed to prevent her child from obtaining her weapons.
As a result, children where killed.
yes, I was going to make the same comment
she was his guardian
A huge mistake on her part
Great post, I totally agree with your comments
welcome to the wrong planet
...And she sure as hell paid for it. Really though, who believes that their child is capable of murdering them and then killing a bunch of children, as far as we know, purely for the hell of it? I'm reserving judgment until we know more, for all we know the kid never showed a single sign of violent disposition before, and no reasonable person could have anticipated this. Or he could have been an obvious and raging psycho and everyone should have known it, but either way we don't know enough yet to pass judgment.
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Being a student in a public middle school in the years following the Columbine shooting was a nightmare that began my downward spiral into years of depression and suicide attempts. I still haven't quite recovered from the fear and sense of being less than human that I lived with at that time, as a result of bullying from students and school officials (fearing that I was a danger because I was nerdy). I do hope that people are wiser in handling these situations nowadays. I hate to think of my school's response to Columbine being repeated.
Nope. They aren't.
in one year, guns murdered:
17 people in Finland
35 in Australia
39 in England and Wales
60 in Spain
194 in Germany
200 in Canada
9,484 in the United States
why why why? availability? national character? karma for being the sheriff of the world? karma for regularly invading other nations for their wealth under the guise of freedom??
everyone of these above countries has the same violent movies, same video games, same type of public school systems
all above countries are UN governed and are globally fairly similar
why why why?
availability?
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I am saddened and sickened by what happened.
But I wanted to comment on the thread title.
Why is it Not Good?
I don't believe and I'm sure neither does the psychiatric community that Aspergers had anything to do with the shooting.
I doubt that the govt is going to start locking up those with autism. And any sensible person shouldn't believe that those with this condition are a threat.
The shooter may have had other underlying mental problems that we may not know, yet.
It's not good because of the majority that will start to view us all as possible serial killers again. It's happened before and will happen again.
People in general like to demonise others, and having a label makes it so much more easy to demonise you, so they don't have to acknowledge the darkness in their own hearts.
Only real solution to this is a change in human nature, but since that's not very clearly on the horizon it looks like it's time to hide in the underground bunker once again till some new incident happens that gives the idiotic masses a new target to discriminate about.
It doesn't help that democracy serves the majority, and we are never in the majority.
The psychiatric community and government are unlikely to act in asinine fashion, and I agree with you that sensible people wouldn't believe we are a threat. However, sensible people form the minority of society. My society, at least; I'm not sure about yours. While each one of them doesn't have much of an impact on our lives individually, sum them all up and they can make your life a living hell.
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17 people in Finland
35 in Australia
39 in England and Wales
60 in Spain
194 in Germany
200 in Canada
9,484 in the United States
why why why? availability? national character? karma for being the sheriff of the world? karma for regularly invading other nations for their wealth under the guise of freedom??
everyone of these above countries has the same violent movies, same video games, same type of public school systems
all above countries are UN governed and are globally fairly similar
why why why?
availability?
Come down to PPR and I'll show you.
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Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.
- Rick Sanchez
things will happen while they can?
availability?
Look, I've been debating this topic half my life and the entire time I've been a member, and have detailed explanations and examples posted in various threads in the PPR forum, repeating them here would be a waste of my time and a derailment of the thread. We've already got multiple threads on this event in this forum and they're all threatening to devolve into political argument, and I'm trying not to succumb to that and suggesting that you take your political question down to the politics forum, where it's already being answered. It's not a simple question and it doesn't have a simple answer, certainly not a one word answer.
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Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.
- Rick Sanchez
things will happen while they can?
availability?
South Africa has an exponentially higher murder rate than USA but guns are exponentially more controlled there. Switzerland has all adult males keep their military rifles in their houses, and has about the same or more guns per capita as USA, along with shooting clubs everywhere, gun clubs, etc. But very little violence, it ranks among the world lowest in homicide. Jamaica more or less banned gun ownership in the 60s, sentences illegal gun possession to 20+ to life in prison, and their homicide rate is like 40-50 per 100K while USA is 5 per 100K.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... cade#2010s
If she was his only human contact, then she is solely responsible for his conduct.
No, he alone is solely responsible for his own conduct.
We all influence eachother, we all cause things to happen. Many states have laws requiring people to lock up guns so that their children don't have access to them. To prevent children from being killed.
She failed to prevent her child from obtaining her weapons.
As a result, children where killed.
yes, I was going to make the same comment
she was his guardian
A huge mistake on her part
And now they're starting to paint her as a frenzied paranoid, preparing for doomsday and turning her home into a fortress. No confirmation on it, but it would begin to explain where the craziness was coming from...
17 people in Finland
35 in Australia
39 in England and Wales
60 in Spain
194 in Germany
200 in Canada
9,484 in the United States
why why why? availability? national character? karma for being the sheriff of the world? karma for regularly invading other nations for their wealth under the guise of freedom??
everyone of these above countries has the same violent movies, same video games, same type of public school systems
all above countries are UN governed and are globally fairly similar
why why why?
availability?
Guns are murdering people? Wow. Don't go full ret*d on this.
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