Possible Motive Emerges In The Connecticut Shooting

[Tiberius]

I didn't equate everyone with mental issues into the same camp.

You didn't, but the person writing the article did. Making a massive assumption about her kid because he says that he'll kill or hurt her, despite the fact that most of these killers don't display any warning signs like that, and aren't generally known to be mentally ill.

Nor did I have trouble understanding that not every mass murder spree is the result of psychosis. She wrote it to say that there are people with violent tendencies who need help and aren't getting it.

Right, and if she actually said that and left it at that, it would be fine. She went further, insinuating that her own son was a person likely to commit such an atrocity. Either she is an idiot who doesn't know the facts and is spreading malicious untruths about mentally disabled people, or she used the title to try and gain attention, and is not profiteering off of her son's mental illness. Either way, she's a despicable human being.

Isn't a call to have more help and understanding about these things addressing this issue?

There is a difference between calling for more help and understanding, and calling for more help and understanding whilst spreading misinformation about mental illness, all at the expense of your own son. You can have all the good intentions in the world, but if you screw up the delivery of the message, you are just an ass.

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Um...

A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books.

This kid is a ticking bomb, Tibs. He's 13. What will he be like when he's 18 or 20?

You know how many times Adam Lanza pulled a gun or a knife on his mother? Or Dylan Klebold? Probably none at all before they committed their atrocities. The big difference in this case is that the kid is being seen by doctors; they know about his condition, and eventually they will find out what it is and be able to prescribe him medicine to help.

Sorry Min, but pulling a knife on someone and threatening to kill them and/or themselves does not a mass murderer make. Unless you have any evidence to show a correlation between this type of behaviour and the people who commit school shootings, your comment about being a ticking time bomb is simply baseless.

There is probably a natural human tendency for a parent to try to shrug off the behavior of an abusive child but the author of this piece is not one of them. She is confronting the reality of her own kid and that takes some guts.

It's great that she's getting him help...that was never the issue. The issue was that she isn't confronting the reality of her own kid; she's making one up for him, whether it is a delusional thinking on her own part, or (more likely) an attempt to get views for her blog. It doesn't take guts to sell your kid out like that...it takes a lack of a heart.