Possible Motive Emerges In The Connecticut Shooting

[A Theist]

At every opportunity to exploit a tragedy, gun control fanatics jump on their political soap boxes and scream about banning certain weapons and enacting more gun control legislation...But is more gun control legislation and the banning of certain weapons the simple cure all to tragedies like the shooting in Connecticut, or are there more serious and complicated issues at work surrounding these tragedies that need to be addressed?

"A possible motive for the Conn. school shooting is revealed by a friend of Nancy Lanza, the mother of the shooter, Adam Lanza. Nancy was in the process of having Adam committed to a psychiatric institution due to his recent behavior and Adam wanting nothing to do with this,...Adam knew Nancy was in the process of petitioning the court to have Adam committed and he was angry at his mother for doing this to him. All he could take in and understand was that his mother wanted him to go away."

http://www.examiner.com/article/conn-sch...connection

Charles Krauthammer responds:

"...We had a decade with an assault weapons ban fro the mid 90s, it lasted for a decade. If you look at the studies it had no appreciable influence on gun violence or the lethality of individual attacks. And there are three elements here. Yeah, it's the shooter, it's the weapon, it's the environment. And all that liberals and the mainstream media want to look at, of course, is the weapon. But there are other ways of looking at this....If you look at the shooter himself and the mental health issue, the fact that you cannot get a commitment on these kinds of people. I'm thinking mostly of Jared Loughner, the shooter in Tucson, Arizona. Everybody knew he was a grenade about to go off. Anybody who knew him, was in class with him said that. But you could only stop him after he killed....And we have moved so radically the last fifty years to making it difficult to commit people who are dangerous, that there has to be a shift in the other direction...."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2...lence.html