Elementary School Shooting

[Wing Saber]

This story is so saddening to hear. I can't believe anyone would want to shoot at little kids. They don't deserve this at all. I hope we find out the killer's motives soon. The news are reporting he might have autism but how could someone with autism be able to plan and commit to a crime like this? It doesn't make sense. What a sad way to end the year with too. That's before we find out if the world will really end.

The issues were towards his mother, to where taking her life wasn't enough. So he targeted the school to destroy everything she loved. Including the children. Even though that just my opinion.

 

[okunohoshimichi]

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[Loghorn]

Connecticut school shooting: troubled life of Adam Lanza, a fiercely intelligent killer.

According to this:

He was not well known to neighbors, who describe him as being reclusive and troubled.

And when the news broke on Friday of the murder of 26 people at a primary school in the town, and Ryan Lanza was hastily identified as the killer, people who knew the family knew they had named the wrong brother.

"Adam Lanza has been a weird kid since we were five years old," said Tim Dalton, a neighbour and former classmate, on Twitter. "As horrible as this was, I can't say I am surprised."

"This was a deeply disturbed kid," a family insider said. "He certainly had major issues. He was subject to outbursts from what I recall."

A further family friend said he had acted as though he was immune to pain.

"A few years ago when he was on the baseball team, everyone had to be careful that he didn't fall because he could get hurt and not feel it," said the friend. "Adam had a lot of mental problems."

Lanza's brother Ryan reportedly told police that his sibling had autism or Asperger's syndrome, and a personality disorder.

He gave no details, but anti-social disorder - also known as sociopathy - is the type most closely linked with violence and criminal behaviour.

Studies have suggested that 50 per cent of the prison population meet the criteria for the diagnosis.

Those with such disorders are more likely to embark on impulsive, risk-seeking behaviour, in an attempt to escape feeling empty or emotionally void.

In such cases, they are likely to have little regard for the consequences of their actions, and are unlikely to experience fear.

OK, I have Asperger's Syndrome (or Autism) as well, but that doesn't give me the reason to kill anyone in cold blood. I have no reason to do so.

Also:

Connecticut school shooting: Adam Lanza was assigned psychologist.

 

[Shogun_Master]

This may not be an Asperger's thing, or just not something all Asperger's sufferers have/ do, but my friend's niece has this illness & has extreme retention for patterns, often getting songs, movie lines & whatnot compulsively stuck in her head, which she will repeat over & over.

She also seems to be unable to fully comprehend human emotion & reacts in a highly melodramatic manner to anything that is difficult for her to comprehend. Though she doesn't seem to anymore, she used to react extremely violently & without reguard for her own or others' safety, throwing sharp or heavy objects at peoples' faces & whatnot.

Perhaps it's possible that the kid, if he had Asperger's, played violent video games, or saw other shootings in the news & retained that, then, when angry at his mother, acted out in that fasion?

Although, while it is important to identify health issues when present, overreaction & misidentification still occur. I am highly anti-social & could be labeled a sociopath to someone who is untrained, but that doesn't mean I am, or make me want to emotionally torture a relative before executing him/ her.

 

[Bigdog]

This may not be an Asperger's thing, or just not something all Asperger's sufferers have/ do, but my friend's niece has this illness & has extreme retention for patterns, often getting songs, movie lines & whatnot compulsively stuck in her head, which she will repeat over & over.

She also seems to be unable to fully comprehend human emotion & reacts in a highly melodramatic manner to anything that is difficult for her to comprehend. Though she doesn't seem to anymore, she used to react extremely violently & without reguard for her own or others' safety, throwing sharp or heavy objects at peoples' faces & whatnot.

For what I have been hearing, his mother was taking him to the shooting alley and his brother for whatever reason, he wasn't speaking for him to two years prior to the tragedy and I believe he could be a huge source of the issue.

Perhaps its a personality thing with environmental issues in his home? Either way, the way everything happened and why is just...strange and comes off as suspicious. And I'm not a one who goes to conspiracy theories usually unless there's a lingering doubt.