NOT GOOD, Connecticut shooter was diagnosed with Aspergers..

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http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12 ... s-say?lite

Well every time something like this happens I wonder out loud why this doesn't occur more...Of course it's tragic and stuff. Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it...Luckily in Holland it's almost impossible to buy a gun. Otherwise it would certainly happen more. Not long ago there was a massacre here in Alphen on the Rhine.

Would it be fair to say that ASpies are more prone to violent behaviour as in mass killings described above. Percentually higher than other possible risk groups? It seems to me that when someone starts an action like that and later on they find out that this individual liked first person shooters but so do millions more who never hurt a fly.

Another interesting phenomena is why kill all those people and then commit suicide and why not get it over with and save those others all the pain.

guns are not the cause but just a means to the end
on the same day of sandy hook a guy in china used a knife to kill 20 or so school children and their teacher.

Some people seem unable to grasp the simple fact that it takes a gunman to stop a gunman and all the well-wishing, hand-wringing, and law making won't do anything but leave people vulnerable.

As a nation you don't really have a choice any more.

Good grief.

Here we are, arguing about gun control while the problem goes merrily on.

He's not writing about Asperger's per se, but check out Thom Hartmann.

Now, he's definitely a liberal. He might be a quack. But he's spot on when he talks about what happens to someone if they grow up hearing that they're broken and bad and need to be this other way and that other way instead.

Adam Lanza is one of the logical outcomes of that kind of life-- exactly the kind of life someone in their early 20s with ASD probably endured, as that has been the model for treatment since it hit the DSM.

Adam Lanza is, thankfully, the minority logical outcome-- most people broken down by that attitude end up alcoholics and drug addicts, homeless or drawing disability whether they really need it or not, or medicated mindless and drooling all over themselves on the street or in their parents' house or in a group home somewhere. Most of the victims of that mindset end up with a life half lived-- the kind of thing a well-meaning therapist tried to force on me before I decided I'd rather be dead and lucked into some good help-- thinking themselves worthless and possibly ending up as ODs or suicides.

That shouldn't be either.

Here we sit debating gun control, debating whether we're all psychos or not, getting mad at each other and feeling sorry for ourselves, and the problem goes right on.

Next time someone does something stupid and ASDs get demonized by the talking heads, we'll do it again.

I hope we're doing this because we don't KNOW what to do, and not because it's just easier.

^ I'm afraid it is because it is just easier. These conversations after school shootings have become nothing new and sound like a broken record at this point with no real solutions ever coming about.

And now it seems that AS will become synonymous with mass shootings as Muslims have become with terrorist attacks.

This ignorance and stupidity that will continue to occur after each tragedy is going to the be the second worst thing to the causalities involved.

Doesn't seem to be much in the way of releases.

Some of the new stuff, was:

No medication in system
had a huge list of mass killers and the weapons used in his room (that's an AS thingy there)
had a lot of bullying at school

That's about it.