On 12/18/12 11:10 AM, Leigh Fanning wrote:Perhaps the mother was so fixated on her misunderstood child that she could not cope with reality in right front of her. Perhaps the father's insistence on convincing her of her error was the end of the marriage.
It seems the entire surrounding group was out of touch. Was the father
so removed that he spent no time with his son and simply paid
off the mother to make a problem go away so he could continue his
wealthy much better than yours life? Are we really to believe that
he had no knowledge of his son's activities?
Perhaps all this caused the son, the problem dog in the backyard tied to a chain, to retreat further into a strange and dangerous mental life. Perhaps his attack, on obvious innocents, was in some sense an attack on the concept of children as vanity accessories of parents. From his isolated perspective, maybe it was a mercy killing of those children. The media keeps suggesting he was intelligent, and he did destroy his computer. There could have been a plan. There are other scenarios one might imagine. Freudian type explanations..
Until contrary evidence becomes public, I think one has to at least entertain the possibility that the parents had no understanding whatsoever of what he was capable of. Perhaps because one or both of them couldn't bear to turn the page and think outside their world view.
It seems to me the knee-jerk response to this sort of thing is to improve detection and mitigate consequences, as with gun control I'd guess detection can and will be defeated by someone like this (in part because he probably has someone helping him, like his mother), and consequences can't be prevented in some cases. In a few years people will be able to go to Kinko's and print-out weapons on 3D printers. How will gun control work then?
Marcus
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