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I think it is a media thing also. Autism/Asperger's is the flavor of the month these days and so as soon there is a murder spree I am sure the first thing the reporters are doing is trying to find a ASD link.
I do not think that as a community we can do anything about it, even in forums like this one, the moment somebody says they want to start killing people, they are being told to stop posting, they get a number of heartless responses of abusive nature, their account is getting closed due to the huge legal implications and on occasion the FBI is being informed. Where could a person go, discuss their murderous desires openly and be treated with love and compassion instead of being immediately rejected and/or restrained? Maybe in a Buddhist monastery, I am just guessing...

"More and more Aspies..."

So ... you feel that three or four Aspies receiving media coverage out of the thousands of murders which occur each year justifies insinuating that Aspies are prone to committing murder? No, you obviously haven't thought this through. I know of Autistic people who've received abuse in the streets because of the actions of ONE man with several mental health issues running alongside AS, yet here you are propagating the insulting and completely inaccurate theory that Autism and planned violence are linked.

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Kingdom of Rats says: "theres no way a human coud kill without having had something go wrong in their lives and/or themselves which in own view woud make them severely mentaly disturbed as opposed to evil."
First of all, I personally agree with you, as in that I feel the same, people who kill are not evil, they have got to be mentally disturbed' it is just a "malfunction". On the other hand, I have been told that some people are born evil, they are just naturally drawn to it. This could be true, and perhaps it is a mental birth defect, maybe they are born ready to kill, and need no moulding.
Then there are other factors to consider, for example, there are cannibals who kill and eat humans, and in their culture the mentally disturbed person would be the one wanting to go vegan.
Also, according to some metaphysical theories, we incarnate time after time and have to experience everything, we have all been victims as well as killers during lifetimes.
And lastly, if karma and reincarnation exist, some people are destined to be killed or to kill in order to raise awareness. Killers become the "example to be avoided", victims are the "martyrs' suffering to help us raise awareness this way.
So although as I said my personal tendency is to agree with you that there is no evil I think there are all the other possibilities to consider. I knew a prison guard once who told me that one of these people exuding pure evil was Myra Hindley. I have also read once that another human being who exuded the same thing was the actor Kirk Douglas (I think he is dead) and last year I worked and got fired from a lovely, well paying job due to a person who seemed to indeed exude pure, illogical, evil.

I would so like to be a buddy, but I would need transportation, and I can't take buses because they're so bumpy they make my head pain unbearable. I want to do something meaningful again... being disabled is awful.

A vacation, maybe. I think his parents and therapists needed to stop thinking that if they kept shoving him into social situations that he would suddenly develop a social life. It sounds like he accumulated rejection on top of rejection while at the same time being in an environment where he'd see lots of other people succeeding, seemingly easily.

His parents sent him off to Santa Barbara because it's a college town, hoping he'd develop a social life. But he wasn't even a student at the university. He was enrolled at a nearby community college. If that CC was like the one I went to people go to class and then to work. There wasn't much of a social scene. So, what did they expect? That he'd just show up at some UCSB frat party, an uninvited, non-student, alone, stranger with poor social skills and say "hey, let me in to your party!" and it would turn out well? He made it worse by being a jerk, out of his bitterness, but getting beaten up was probably likely even if he wasn't like that.

And, one of his therapists (or maybe it was a family friend) would take him out to learn how to interact with women. The women would end up attracted to the therapist/'friend', who would later laugh at his pain at finding the experience depressing. How is it that people thought that these things were helping when it was failure after failure? OK, probably they had no idea what else to do. But maybe he was better off isolated than having his face continually rubbed in his failure.

And, he should've had some pets -- at least one source of positive interaction with a living thing, and a reason not to commit suicide (and decide to kill people you hate as long as you're going to die).