His real mother lives in Malaysia, I’ve read. The woman who tried to “run to the rescue” was his stepmother. Any discussion anywhere of the problems of divorce? And the alienation it brings to children?
And the child molesters want to kill more babies. Where is the outrage?
Good article-thanks for posting it. I have some “ friends” who can benefit from reading it.
Jenni Rodger, his British aunt, blamed America and guns for her nephew’s massacre. “What kind of a society allows this? How can this be allowed to happen? I want to appeal to Americans to do something about this horrific problem.”
Somehow the parenting failure of her brother is now the fault of an entire foreign country.
I'm going to have to jump in here and defend the parents. It looks like they were aware there was a problem, and have been trying to do something about it since Elliott was 8 years old. Their hands were tied, though, by a mental health system that is almost powerless to actually treat people.
His aunt was right, but not in the way she thinks. Guns are not the problem. The broken mental healthcare system is. Once upon a time, dangerous mentally ill people could be confined to institutions and prevented from causing harm to anyone. A sick child such as Elliott, in another day and age, would have been permanently hospitalized. But at some point, liberals (acting through the ACLU, IIRC) decided that keeping mentally ill people confined to hospitals violated their rights since it amounted to imprisonment without a trial. So the mental hospitals were emptied, and sick people are no longer confined.
In most cases, the mentally ill are on the streets, dirty, barely surviving, not really a danger to anyone except themselves. They are called "the homeless" and liberals love them because they view the homeless as symbols of the failures of capitalism. In a handful of cases, the person who should have been confined is a violent psychopath and hurts a lot of people. Liberals seem to love them, too, because they give liberals a symbol of everything that is wrong with freedom.
Bookmark.
These anti-gun reactions remind me of Russia.
Why is everything so run-down there?
Why do even new buildings quickly become blighted?
Because of collectivism.
When something belongs to everyone it really belongs to no one.
When something is everyone’s responsibility it’s really no one’s responsibility.
That’s how human beings work.
So, it’s not daddy’s fault for not having his disturbed son committed or not paying enough attention to him to realize he’s truly disturbed. No.
It’s my fault! Because I’m in the NRA and I own guns! Yeah! It’s my fault! That’s the ticket...
Bump.
Divorce is devastating to children. All this crap about “they are resilient, they will be fine” is a line of complete garbage. This guy’s dad moved his mom and him out and moved a sex partner in.
I blame the dad.
Same with the kid in Sandy Hook. Dad couldn’t be a man and help his sick son, he had to go drown his sorrows with a new sex partner and let mom cope somehow.
I blame the dad.
Until the Conservative movement starts using events like these to ATTACK and DESTROY Liberals, (the same way the libs do to us after events like this), then we'll continue to get our asses kicked.