(December 19, 2012 at 11:31 am)Tiberius Wrote: That was a terrible article summer. I read it the other day; it's despicable...effectively lumping all children with mental health issues into the same camp as people who commit these atrocities. No, the writer of that article is not Adam Lamza's mother; she is not Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris' mother either. She is the mother of a mentally ill son, and should not make the massive assumptions she is making about him.
I would ask that you read some responses to the article, which I think make very good points about why the original author is only contributing to the problem:
http://www.disabilityandrepresentation.c...as-mother/
http://thegirlwhowasthursday.wordpress.c...as-mother/
You are right. A sane person can do the same thing and Eric and Dylan were sane.
But she was a right winger nut who feared the government and just like the lady who owned the chimp that ripped a woman's face off, this mother in this case failed to understand that autism does not mean unintelligent, it is a disorder of the brain that can allow for smarts but not emotional maturity. That chimp was smart enough to learn how to unlock the house door and escaped a couple of times.
This kid was ahead of his grade, but still had the emotional maturity of a kid. He still had no business near guns anymore than Eric or Dylan did. Mentally ill or not, the signs were missed that in both cases that there was a problem. And I still do not see why a non military person needs military style weapons. Mentally ill or not.
I simply don't want your rightful statement to be used as an excuse to do nothing, because that is what we have been doing.
