The dad needs to shut his mouth in deference to the parents of kids his kid murdered. Because this isn’t on Asberger’s or guns or Hollywood. It’s on him.
This dad utterly abandoned his son.
I read what they’re calling the kid’s “manifesto.” It’s actually an autobiography.
He had a happy childhood with birthday parties, travel, and an intact family.
When his parents divorced, his world collapsed. There are no happy memories recounted after that (except going to the premiere of the fourth “Star Wars” movie.)
His father remarried. The kid didn’t get along with his stepmother, and he was banished from his father’s house. Not just abandoned — rejected.
So he was raised by his mom and World of Warcraft, which he played to the exclusion of everything else.
He agonized about always being the shortest, slightest boy in his class. So where was his dad to teach him other ways to be a man besides being six foot two, which wasn’t possible for this kid? How about, take him to church? Or teach him to tear down a transmission?
My guess is the kid couldn’t even change a tire on the Beemer his identity was so wrapped up in. Thanks, Dad!
Again, this terrible crime has nothing to do with Asberger’s, or Hollywood, or guns. It’s about a father abandoning his boy.
Fathers abandoning their boys to be raised by women and videogames are destroying America.
Sorry, posted the above on the wrong thread. It was intended for the thread about the kid’s father.
His father taking an interest could have made a big difference. As I noted on another thread on this, the kid was living in LA and was the son of a Hollywood director. He should have had aspiring starlets lining up to go out with him. Yeah, the girls would have been using him to get introduced to the dad, but the kid would have gotten some attention. The dad could have worked with him on social skills. The dad could have asked one of the "cool" actors to do him the favor of showing the kid around and show him how to be cool.