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Adam Lanza

Adam Lanza

Despite our best efforts, there will never be a 100% foolproof way of preventing school shootings and other mass murders. The only conceivable way would be a total ban on firearms, which is not going to happen. And even that would only cut down on the body count since numerous other weapons are still available. But that doesn’t mean we should just throw up our hands and do nothing.

Documents recently released on the final days of Connecticut elementary school shooter Adam Lanza show a similar pattern of alarming and emotionally aberrant behavior to that of Arizona mass killer Jared Loughner – sitting home all day playing violent video games, keeping a large cache of weapons and ammunition in the house and virtually no socialization. There are almost always behavioral indicators. But given that this individual was so withdrawn and housebound, his danger signs would have been even more difficult to pick up than Loughner’s.

In our research and from the cases I’ve worked, fantasy is a major component within the mind of a troubled person with low self-esteem, as well as feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. Some will internalize these feelings and become self-destructive, taking their own lives or turning to alcohol, drugs and/or prostitution. Then there are others who desire nothing more than to get rid of their problems by destroying the enemies that exist only in their imaginations.

The only way to deal with these individuals and get them help before tragedy occurs is to make others – parents, teachers, friends – aware of signs of potential violence, then offer them a secure, confidential and non-stigmatizing environment in which to share their fears with officials in the position to do something. This also implies that we need the resources and support structure to help out once potentially dangerous individuals have been identified.

This won’t stop all mass violence. It may not even stop most of it. But it would be foolish as well as  immoral to sit by and do nothing at all.

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2 Responses to Doing What We Can

  1. DoUKnowTheLord says:

    Sorry I listened to BAU-2 and I am analyzing the crimes they do I just feel so far from achieving the place they have and I want that very much. I feel better but I need to really be able to finish what I start in college and research. It frustrates me that I can not help only because I am a student.

  2. DoUKnowTheLord says:

    Here is what we show this kid if we act to slow in the previous shooting in the case of James Holmes. He was guilty and this burden of proof in the states case took far to long. Long enough that this was allowed to be seen as a type of act we are familiar with and one we give a due process of and never publicly deter the offences but sell the murders. These ignorant media tactics must stop, I see this as an attack against all that is good and worth fighting for. I see it as it is, a young man raised by parents like Ed Kempers or John Reulas who are also bad and this boy having a weak mind and no heart is a target for those like Charles Manson who still have shown they are a criminal mafia that sanctions murders against innocent lives and here it is unforgivable. To think BTK, Manson, Falco, Bundy, Ridgeway and Atkins feel this is not the direct result of the Zodiac killings is patently ridicules. Your looking at the chance to help a family in justice because other can not and that act causes these? Dennis Rader you gave enough to warrant a court order for DNA, I want to see you die in California. I also want you to know I see what your doing and it if you wanted a dangerous game then you got it. The problem is I was one man not an army using an OPORD to kill and teach others in the military to like Israel Keyes. I am smarter than you Dennis and this will show when the signature you had of semen is the death of you and then the Bright’s, Otero’s all will see how hard some fight for them against you. Now it has a direct link and I know it because I couldn’t stop it in time but I am one man not the FBI and your going to feel me as Israel and his lowlife coworkers have.
    “My DNA” Good Dennis My profile the states duty and you wait sir you will die by lethal injection not in concrete mama. Bundy took it like a man after he wet his pants and your friends fate will be your fate sir. I suppose you could kill me before I can pursue you with credentials but you have made your last mistake and that was Morgan who you and your partners had shot and staged to make a point about a race war, using a necklace? Wow the police do not get that man I do but your dealing with 10 fresh counts of murder and you always come here so do not be shy. I will tell you like it is and it is the puzzles the calls and the mistakes were many. I would have had you real fast but I am generation X. Not the dark side of it but you get the point “Factor X” ok I know Manson and projects it is clever but it just cost you the hold on these cases and I wanted you to know I did this because I love you and now it is checkmate. They say this will always exist, not really I can stop it. Morgan D. Harrington is an angel and you all want to prove the system is racist to her and it is but your going to loose and I am doing it with no help or respect and it is the family who I can not reach. I want you to really think is this guy crazy? I am smarter than you and I have God and I have proved a lot and you will see the rest because you challenged us. Now get ready for closure.

    This kid is mook and your murder dies with you and your family I am certain I can end the sadistic murders but I need help.

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