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

[Raven]

No, guns don't cause violence, but they make it possible on a much larger scale. Everyone I know plays "violent" video games and is a non-violent person. Millions of people play these games, tens of millions. 99.999999% of them are just computer nerds.

I do think something was going on with his mother. Parents of autistic children usually treat them like sh*t, bully them, sometimes kill them themselves. Autistic people aren't "difficult", parents who don't get their dream child just drug their children to the gills and whine about having to pay any attention to them because they bought into some myth that parenthood would always be shiny and happy. Probably half the people diagnosed with autism aren't even autistic anyway. Autistic people tend to be introverted, not violent.