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Why Did He Kill All Those Children?

merickson Wrote: Jan 03, 2013 9:28 AM
"The U.S. media have also been ignoring other facts about the 20-year-old Lanza, such as his mental diagnosis, medication and the fact that he didn't have his father in the home because he had been divested of his father's authority by a family court." I think we need to look beyond the video games, guns, mental illness diagnosis, etc. and look at the fact that he was from a broken family. Perhaps we don't want to look at broken families since there are so many of them, and ours may be one of them, but I think it's a crucial piece of the picture.
The idea for massacring children in an elementary school or shooting up a mall filled with Christmas shoppers does not come from reading books, watching movies or listening to music. Does the incitement for such unspeakable acts come from hours of role-playing violent video games?

As we speculate on what was going on in the mind of the murderer, the media are trying to blame his evil act on the lack of gun control. But the ownership of firearms or attending a shooting range do not desensitize someone to the cold-blooded murder of many children.

The act of mass, cold-blooded murder...

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