[What could have stopped Adam Lanza?]
Not unlocking a locked door to let him in.
I agree - but even this might be used against us. Look for unintended consequences.
I read that he tried to buy a gun but was turned away for two days.
He used his mother's gun. Were the guns just laying around? Were they in a safe?
How easy or difficult was it for him to access his mother's guns?
For me the very title of this article is the MAIN reason behind these outrageous acts: Blah...ADAM LANZA...blah. The instant celebrity and fame that is bestowed upon these pathetic losers by the MSM.
The Mother. Period. Amen. She trained her insane son to use firearms and gave him access to them. If she was alive she should’ve been charged with manslaughter.
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Most of the odd, anti-social loners haven't been in trouble either.
I guess the question here is whether they're profiling all school shooters or spree killers. It seems like many of them were paranoid schizophrenic (whatever that means) loners.
Yet you do have to wonder about the shooters who told other students in advance that they were thinking about shooting up the school. Were they really loners after if they had people to talk to about things like that? And why didn't anybody do anything?
A gun safe.
I wonder how that is working out for them?
Forced medication is now only used on patients who become violent without it. It is expensive, so it is not used as much as it should be, but it is not as expensive as mental hospitals, so it is the preferred solution in that regard.
Before Kendra’s Law, in New York State, we had the classic case of Larry Hogue, dubbed “The Wild Man of West 96th Street.” He was fine in the hospital and only became violent when released, at which time he invariably ended up taking crack again, which supposedly was the factor that changed his psychological makeup. Monitoring of his medication was essential, so it was done.
Kendra was a young woman who got pushed onto the subway tracks by a homeless mentally ill man.
I cut my political teeth on this issue, and I think Sommers has done a good job of presenting both aspects of it: the need for community safety and the dangers of overreacting and creating a civil rights nightmare, as she says.
A 9mm round right between the eyes.
Gun free zones are just targets in search of a mass murderer. High time to demand that real school security get top priority.
Restore the constitutional right of self defense to the schools. Either security personel, school marshalls, and/or select teachers/administrators for the training needed.
The pricipal was brave; she rushed an armed killer. If only she had been packing, many might still be alive.
If gun laws alone are the answer, then how come congress has security guards? They need to stop making our children sitting ducks.
All these proposals for more gun laws are just brain dead stupid!
And guess what, when I was fifteen, my mother wanted to - and could have, back then, have me institutionalized because she found a pack of Marlboros in my drawer, and I failed algebra.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/top-psychiatrist-meds-behind-school-massacres/">meds-massacres link
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/top-psychiatrist-meds-behind-school-massacres/