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Kasz216 said:

Euphoria14 said:

Kasz216 said:

Also, honestly, though I don't think EITHER is the case. You would have more of a factual basis to blame mass shootings on video games then you would guns. (Though it makes me sad to say this, liking video games far more.)

Since, someone basically just needs to look into the motives of a mass shooting vs say, a regular murder.

 

Like say in this case, they say they suspect the reason he shot up the school was that he was afraid his mom was going to commit him and leave him alone.  So he shot his dad, stole their guns then shot his mom..... and 20 kids and some teachers.

 

The question is... why the 20 kids and some teachers?  He got back at the parents... why the other people as well?

Not sure if this was answered yet, but supposedly he suffered from an antisocial personality disorder. This kind of violent behaviour isn't exactly a shock.

Supposedly when the older brother found out what happened, he knew it was Adam who did it. That tells you enough. Boy was a sociopath. If he didn't have guns he would've used something else. I heard his mother was in the process of actually having him commited.

 

Edit - Actually just read a claim by a friend of the mother's that she wasn't going to have him committed. Still doesn't mean he did not fear it and in turn acted upon it.

 

Anyways, most of us understand that the gun wasn't the real issue here, it was Adam.

i thought it was that he was austistic.

Didn't hear the anti-social part before.

From what I read here, along with the neighbor's, local police and even his brother's words, I would wager he had a good chance at having APD.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/diagnosing-adam-lanza/266322/

I tried having a conversation about him with my fiance last night and when I mentioned what I thought I knew about him, she right away told me that he very well could have had ASPD, because he displayed many signs of it.

She is a LPN by the way and her sister is a RN working at StonyBrook University Hospital. They make for great conversation when it comes to people like this because they have plenty of people they can talk to with a better understanding than me.

 

Although even if he didn't have ASPD, it is obvious that this boy had real issues and that he was the biggest threat here, with or without guns.