autistic 19 year old charged with murdering his mother

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On the same day as the Sandy Hook murder, a man in China rampaged through a school with a knife. At Sandy Hook, 28 people (including Adam Lanza and his mother) were killed, two survived with injuries.

The attack in China resulted in injuring 22 children and one elderly adult. No deaths. Another knife attack is mentioned which had three deaths.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... tacks.html

Yes, it is true that you can kill people without using guns. But it is not accurate to make this claim without acknowledging that guns make killing people a heck of a lot easier. I would argue that it is often outright dishonest to ignore that fact. Or that nations where guns are more strictly controlled have lower murder rates (with crimes involving firearms significantly reduced).

Very interesting example, as it proves my point exactly. Of that 160 million dead, about sixty million of those dead were in China. Why? Because China had gun control, and only the government could own guns, and average citizens were nothing more than helpless targets. As Chairman Mao himself said, all political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The reason the left wants average citizens disarmed is to take away our political power. The question of why is almost too awful to contemplate.

To recap:

Death toll at Sandy Hook due to lack of gun control: 28

Death toll in China due to gun control: 60 million.

Obviously he wasn't such a gentle young man now was he? Also he may have had something else going on besides autism. Like some kind of crazy.

I am sorry, but I think if he is not able to control his feelings he needs to get into "closed" service. If this will be jail, or a closed psychiatric hospital...: So I think he belongs more into the closed psychiatric hospital, but there he will have to face as well other criminal inmates, and wont feel comfortable.

I feel sorry for his mum, and feel as well sorry for him, but I think if he would have wished to work on a life fitting and suiting him, then murdering another person is simply a really stupid idea. I do understand that jail can be far more serious for an autist, and definitely dont wish for him on purpose to endure bad non-social conditions in jail, but if he is not in control of his aggressivity, you hardly can allow him to run around unconcerned.

Verdandi,

Comparing a kitchen knife to an AR-15 is incorrect. You'd need to compare something like a sword to one (perhaps an axe too) -- which is capable of inflicting the same amount of casualties on unarmed children compared to an AR-15 for the most part (depends on many variables though, but one wouldn't necessarily be better than the other).

There's been many massacres involving melee weapons that have killed a lot of people (not to mention poisonings and explosives).

OliveOilMom yes he certainly isn't a gentle man now, but my original question was Why? Patrick mum was well known by so many in the community and so was he as he was always by her side. I never met him but that is how he was described as a gentle introverted man/young adult. Distresses by playing games on electronics constantly. Does talk but would have to get him to engage.

So many people would have had contact with him and I am sure if he was aggressive or violent surely he would not have been able to hide this.

Again I was just wondering why or what would make a gentle person do such a violent act and Kill the only person he has in his life. There has been mention of wrong medication that he was taking.

I do think that this murder would not get so much attention if his mum was not such a public figure in the autism community in this country.

But as a mother of an autistic son when these terrible things happen is only natural to ask questions. My son takes medication there is side effects. Anything we can do to protect or education ourselves and our family can't and shouldn't been seen a double standards or an attack on members of society.

Here in Ireland at the moment a number of young men have committed suicide whom are involved in our traditional sport. My son plays the game and is heavily involve in the club so again I ask question and I worry why this is happening. We are parents isn't this our job there is no hidden agenda's only the safety of our family and friends and at times or community.

am i the only person who is disturbed that we have been presented by no evidence, no formal assessment of the young man's mental state at the proposed time of crime, nor has there been due process of law, yet we here all assume the young man's guilt? is this how justice works in america now? conviction in the court of public opinion?

frankly i find this whole thread disturbing and sensationalistic.

That's not the question.