Perhaps the kid came by his insanity honestly, living with a gun-obsessed survivalist mother who was convinced that society was about to end.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248983/Connecticut-school-shooting-Adam-Lanzas-survivalist-mother-obsessed-guns.html On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]>wrote: > On 12/18/12 11:10 AM, Leigh Fanning wrote: > >> It seems the entire surrounding group was out of touch. Was the father >> so removed that he spent no time with his son and simply paid >> off the mother to make a problem go away so he could continue his >> wealthy much better than yours life? Are we really to believe that >> he had no knowledge of his son's activities? >> > Perhaps the mother was so fixated on her misunderstood child that she > could not cope with reality in right front of her. Perhaps the father's > insistence on convincing her of her error was the end of the marriage. > Perhaps all this caused the son, the problem dog in the backyard tied to a > chain, to retreat further into a strange and dangerous mental life. > Perhaps his attack, on obvious innocents, was in some sense an attack on > the concept of children as vanity accessories of parents. From his > isolated perspective, maybe it was a mercy killing of those children. The > media keeps suggesting he was intelligent, and he did destroy his computer. > There could have been a plan. There are other scenarios one might > imagine. Freudian type explanations.. > > Until contrary evidence becomes public, I think one has to at least > entertain the possibility that the parents had no understanding whatsoever > of what he was capable of. Perhaps because one or both of them couldn't > bear to turn the page and think outside their world view. > > It seems to me the knee-jerk response to this sort of thing is to improve > detection and mitigate consequences, as with gun control I'd guess > detection can and will be defeated by someone like this (in part because he > probably has someone helping him, like his mother), and consequences can't > be prevented in some cases. In a few years people will be able to go to > Kinko's and print-out weapons on 3D printers. How will gun control work > then? > > > Marcus > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/**listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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