“Did paranoid, gun-crazed mother trigger son's school killing spree?

[Tom]

“Did paranoid, gun-crazed mother trigger son's school killing spree?

What a loaded, irresponsible statement!!

The whole title reads:
“Did paranoid, gun-crazed mother trigger son's school killing spree? Friends say she believed world was on edge of collapse.”

Quotes from the rest of the article are as follows.......

“She said her former sister-in-law was meticulous about never leaving guns out,….”

”‘I would ring the bell on the front door and she would come out the side and meet me,’ he said. ‘It was a little weird. It’s stranger now thinking back on what happened.’”

”But others noted that beneath the mellow exterior, she was highly-strung and appeared to be ‘holding herself together’.”

”Adam, a reclusive youth who had few if any friends and spent most of his time in two adjoining bedrooms in the family home.”

“There he would spend hours on his computer, much of the time devoted to playing violent games.”

Ryan Kraft, who babysat for Mrs Lanza when Adam was ten, said the boy was prone to serious temper tantrums. The fiercely protective Mrs Lanza insisted the babysitter never left Adam on his own for a moment, even to go to the lavatory.

But he remembered her as an ‘engaged’ mother who did her best to arrange playdates for her sons.

“Catherine Urso said her son, who was at school with him, described him as ‘very thin, very remote and one of the goths’.”

”The Lanzas moved to Sandy Hook in around 1998 but Mrs Lanza and her husband divorced ten years later amid rumours that their difficult younger son had put a heavy strain on their marriage.”

”Police say a member of Adam’s family – probably his brother – has told them he suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism.”

“Experts have insisted the condition, while prompting the sufferer to withdraw into his own world, would not be responsible on its own for making him go on a homicidal spree.”

“That said, the experts note that if he had mental problems, these, combined with years of social isolation, inadequacy and the easy availability of an arsenal of firearms, could have been a recipe for disaster.”
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After reading the above quotes from an online Daily Mail article - which when read in whole seems to lean too heavily on the guns in the home CAUSING this terrible act – you can see there was more going on than just guns in the home being the problem!

This woman had her hands full trying to take care of a very difficult and troubled young man. He had issues way before he took guns and went on a killing spree. She did all she could do to try and help him, but short of institutionalizing him, what more could she do?

Yes, it was probably unwise to have guns in the same home as this young man, but he would have found some other form of weapon if not a gun. He seemed bent on doing harm – to others and himself.

Why not ‘blame’ the violent video games he loved to play? Studies have shown that when a person (especially a vulnerable personality) plays hours and hours of these types of violent games, they lose their resistance to doing violence themselves in real life.

Guns don’t ‘cause’ violence! Look at Australia, a country with some of the most strict gun laws in the world, and they have more violence there than we do here! How do you explain that?