On everything I'm seeing about the CT shooting [read at own risk]
So now they're falling into the pattern of blaming video games and Aspergers. Oh, come on. Seriously? Video games didn't kill those kids. Aspergers didn't either. Surprisingly (and this is rare for me to say this) neither did the guns. A sick, twisted individual did. A sick, twisted individual who took his parents' divorce badly, whose friends 'left' him, who was messed up from a variety of other psychological issues that his parents knew about, did this. Not Koei. Not Aspergers. Not guns.
His mommy, the "survivalist" sounds as mentally sound as a two-legged table. His daddy, who says "we don't know how this happened" sounds like he turned a blind eye to his son's issues just because he and the kid's mom weren't together anymore. Didn't know? No shit. Hard to know when you don't care to pay any fucking attention. But we can't blame the parents, who did a shit job at actually PARENTING and a wonderful job at failing to notice their kid needed a little bit of fucking HELP, for what he did. Oh no, that'd be wrong. Let's blame the three things that a goodly portion of the country have in common in some form or another! Video games, Aspergers, and guns! Those are obviously at fault.
WHAT THE FUCK. The media once again looks for those needles of supposed triggers in the haystack of signs.
I feel for the families whose sons' and daughters' lives were cut short by this guy. They're going to be needing all the prayers in the world this holiday season. They didn't deserve that. May the souls of the deceased rest in peace and the families find the grace and strength to get through this difficult time.
I feel nothing at all for the shooter. He doesn't deserve to be remembered as anything other than a murderer. No name. No face. Fuck him. I feel nothing for his family, either. It's cold, but I can't feel for people who failed so hard. They failed to get their son help, which could've cut this off long before it ever started. And in doing so, they failed those children and their families because their failure cost innocent lives.
Maybe this makes me an insensitive person, but oh well. Wake the fuck up, America. Learn to parent and get your heads out of your asses when the signs are present, and maybe, just MAYBE things like this won't happen.
I feel better now.