[quote=flu]access to lack off access to psychotherapy and meds clearly was NOT an issue in this person’s case. For god’s sake, the mother’s ex was a Director at GE living in Stamford,CT paying a $289k+/year alimony with cost of living adjustments until 2023, as well as all the medical/doctor expenses that would be incurred…
And clearly there were signs of “something” up mentally. Ok, autism by itself isn’t an indicator of someone going postal, but clearly wouldn’t any parent that recognizes that their child have some mental issue, at least think twice about putting guns into the kids hands? I mean, it’s like taking a kid that has epiletic seizures to drive without first completing the diagnosis to see how severe it is.. Parent clearly didn’t exercise good judgment into placing guns into the kid’s hand…
And furthermore, exercised extremely poor judgement in cultivating a gun hobby. End result is 26 people non-sensically dead…6-7 year old kids that absolutely had no chance because they probably didn’t even know what the heck was going on.
What this asshole did is worse than any terrorist, foreign or domestic. And folks probably think society failed them…It goes along with everything wrong these day….
Individuals failing to take personal responsibility for there action, and a government that doesn’t emphasis the “personal” part in responsibility… Just like how “personal” financial responsibility, or lack there of…
If there’s an epidemic, I would say it’s that. People no longer willing to take responsibility for their own actions, but rather blame everyone else for it…
“Oh no, we need to save the people that just commited these attrocious acts. They need the best medical care. We can reform them (after they killed XX+ innocent people)”
…I’d say fvck them.. Let them fry. Let God sort it out. My feelings now are exactly how I would feel if I was the parent of one of the 26 victims of this senseless act.[/quote]
By no means was I trying to imply there was no fault involving the mother or the murderer. These two were ultimately fully responsible. I don’t think society failed him at all.
I do believe that when we have these events over and over, we have to look at the larger environment that is creating these monsters.
I stand by my assessment of the recipe for creation of these monsters. Bottom line, there has always been crazies throughout the ages, but what makes our crazies into monsters with means to put an average of 10 bullets in each little kid within matter of minutes? Such is the question.
Just because one has coverage to psychiatry doesn’t mean it was utilized. Of course it was the mom and the murderer’s responsibility to seek care, but why didn’t they seek the care? That question needs to be addressed. What about role of violent video games and movies? Again, the brain of a normal person may not be susceptible, but what about the autistic or asperger brain? Then there’s the weapon of choice. What is the benefit to our society of the assault weapons? What’s the risk?
These questions do not absolve the murderer and his mom any responsibility, but these questions do at least get us down the road to stopping the epidemic.
