number two....evil is still evil....evil is allowed into ones mind and soul....Lanza knew right from wrong...he could function somewhat...
and number three, my aspergers adult dtr could come up with the most obscure trivia question, and generally she's a deep thinker, but ask her what 5 plus 6 is and she'll need to get a calculator...ask her what a quarter after two means, and she has no clue....and then there's a certain monotone of speaking, a certain dwelling on certain subjects, sometimes from grade school.....she is smart too but she is limited..she is not violent..helps around the house.....
Lanza was extremely limited...he was odd....he was antisocial...he dwelled on death and killing....
Mommy should have taken the hard steps to have him committed...
Under the sad state of mental health care in our country that probably would have resulted in Lanza spending a couple of weeks in a hospital and then being set loose with a prescription or two. It is a little late now to speculate whether or not that would have prevented Lanza's crimes.
Of course the "officials" are ready to blame Lanza's mother, but even if she had brought him to them their treatment may or may not have prevented the crimes. But you can be sure if they had treated him they wouldn't be accepting blame for his actions. For examples of this you don't have to look too hard. See, for instance the stories of James Holmes, Jared Lee Loughner, or Seung-Hui Cho, all of whom apparently were known to mental health professionals and, presumably being "treated" prior to their crimes.
You can if the "treatment" is institutionalization.
I wonder if the relevant issue is the "one bite rule".
A dog owner is typically not liable for a dog biting someone if the dog had never done such a thing in the past.
I wonder if Adam Lanza was so sheltered due to the abnormal behaviors that he exhibited that he never actually injured anyone until the day he murdered his mother and 26 other people.
Perhaps the child' misbehavior should have been tolerated a little longer early on so that his dangerous tendencies were made apparent.
Progressives are so pre-occupied with little boys chewing their Pop-Tarts into the shape of a gun that they have little time left for instilling real discipline.