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The Dead Soul of Adam Lanza

rdk Wrote: Dec 18, 2012 12:33 PM
Why are there not mandatory requirements for professional care when it comes to people like Adam Lanza?
Jay Wye Wrote: Dec 18, 2012 9:19 PM
because of the ACLU protecting people's "rights".
they sued to keep police and courts from institutionalizing people who were acting crazy.
also,kids as young as 14 can disallow their parents from controlling their medical care,and make their own decisions on taking treatments.
KSAT Wrote: Dec 18, 2012 6:05 PM
If it is true that Lanza was on psych meds, then that means that he already DID receive professional care. Maybe he did not do anything in the past to warrant being institutionalized. It has been said that there is darkness in the heart of all men. Most, thankfully, keep things under control. However, no society can stop ALL crime. If we lived in a total police state that was able to prevent do that, I don't think most of us would want to live there.
KSAT Wrote: Dec 18, 2012 6:08 PM
Correction: Last sentence should have read 'prevent that.'
"No set of laws can eliminate evil from the world, or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society."

So said President Obama in words of comfort in Newtown. The president was right to speak of evil, but mistaken when he called the massacre "senseless."

For this was a premeditated and purposeful act of mass murder, and the devil that did it knew exactly what he was doing and why.

When he put four bullets into his mother's head while she lay in bed, Adam Lanza wanted her life ended along with his. When he headed for Sandy Hook Elementary,...

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