Hi,
When it comes to gun control and parents, does the government try to
cross-examine parents seeking purchase of weapons to be sure their
remarks about their children are sufficiently detached and analytical?
Do we expect parents to know the inner lives of their introverted
children, and even adult children? The hopes by and expectations of
parents seem counter to an honest assessment of an odd child, especially
in upper-middle class Connecticut. It seems Nancy Lanza did have a
basic misapprehension of her son. If she didn't she would have known
it was inappropriate to have such efficient weapons in the house.
I think the kind of cultural change that would be needed to identify
cases like Adam Lanza would, in general, be considered too intrusive and
rejected by most Americans. It would involve, I expect, that
apparently introverted kids would receive psychological assessments, and
that those assessments, would need to be actionable without parental
consent. Like most school assessments, they would discourage any
subtle judgement by the fraction of teachers capable of the task.
Marcus
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