Okay now we have to listen to all the do-dah about when, and of course, why the kid who executed all those people in Omaha fell through the cracks. As if the floorboards just suddenly opened up and he came crashing through.
Was it when he was showing everybody the Kalishnikov the night before he went on his rampage? Or when he was kicked out of his mother's house a year ago? Or when he got rejected by the military? Or lost his girlfriend? Or got fired? Or suffered from any of the other ISSUES he's had for years and years and years?
Nope. He's been slipping through the buttcrack of society one little splinter at a time. Each time he did something a little worse than the last time. Dropping hints about his distress like Hansel and Gretel leaving a trail of crumbs behind in the hope that they could find their way out of the forest. Not enough to get anybody's attention in time. But enough to let us know in retrospect that he was keeping his sanity together with bailing wire and string.
Empty the barf bag of his life and something will fall out.
As her readers know by now, Mrs. Linklater believes there are two chances this kid was not subjected to an inappropriate sexual experience. Slim and none. But she'll keep an open mind. Once they can eliminate all parents and step-parents, siblings and other relatives, family friends, babysitters, teachers, coaches, scout leaders, camp counselors, teen pastors, priests, etc., etc.
The TV shirnks always bring up the possibility of some genetic predisposition to mental illness. Like it's a foregone conclusion you're going to be shooting up a mall from the time of your first poopy diaper. Bull hockey. First because too many people who have the "mental illness" gene live perfectly normal lives. Second, because people without the gene can become mentally ill, given the right circumstances.
Something has to light the fuse.
And this kid's fuse got lit a long long time ago. Everything that came after conspired to create the perfect storm that was unleashed a couple of days ago. Taking out all those people wasn't the result of some foregone biological conclusion.
It was as simple as a failure to communicate. Maybe someday, they'll just call shopping mall massacres the Cool Hand Luke syndrome.
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It was as simple as a failure to communicate...
I immediately thought of
Cool Hand Luke
good movie
not Paul Newman's fault
if someone overdoses on
hard cooked eggs
are we going to blame him
or the Easter Bunny?
just kidding
safer shopping online
sad
He should answer to what he did. Today I am commiting my son, against his will, to a mental facility. I live in fear that one day he could be in the headlines too. My heart breaks for the victims AND the young boy who did this. There is no easy answer. Anne
We all know these kids. Few bother to pay attention until it's too late.
Very sad. Very preventable.
It's very sad. No one wins.
xoxo
There is a classic research study that shows subjects a bunch of pictures of young children. They are asked, if you had to guess which child will because mentally ill which would it be? AMAZINGLY accurate! You can see it physically even!
You do make some good points on many mentally ill people never do this but it all depends on what mental illness they have! You can't compare Schizophrenia with an Eating Disorder. Now that would be an interesting combined disorder! HA!
Yes, much of what these kids are doing is OUR fault! The whole systems fails them...I hate to admit that Mrs. Clinton is right on the Whole Village...but if your village is filled with all idiots you have no chance! Bush wants to do "No Child Left Behind" then work on the real issues...not just forcing them to do well in school with no academic support, realize they also need other types of support, emotional, community programs, what to do with stress they experience, how to help the officers know how to deal with domestic abuse better & have the funds...actually pay the officers what they are worth! Well, they are priceless (when they are good ones) but still this is what is missing & why it will just get worse if they do not even realize it much less attempt to do what is really needed about it!
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