MikeK
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A Gunman, Recalled as Intelligent and Shy, Who Left Few Footprints in Life
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Published: December 14, 2012
He carried a black briefcase to his 10th-grade honors English class, and sat near the door so he could readily slip in and out. When called upon, he was intelligent, but nervous and fidgety, spitting his words out, as if having to speak up were painful.
Pale, tall and scrawny, Adam Lanza walked through high school in Newtown, Conn., with his hands glued to his sides, the pens in the pocket of his short-sleeve, button-down shirts among the few things that his classmates recalled about him.
He did all he could to avoid attention, it seemed.
Until Friday.
Read the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/n...-is-now-identified-as-a-mass-killer.html?_r=0
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Guns are not the cause of such events as the NewTown massacre. Psychopathology is. And there seems to be quite a bit of that in this rather un-sane society of ours. While I'm not aware of any reliable statistics on the subject I would guess the United States is the world leader in its percentage of every-day, walking-around, lethally dangerous screwballs.
It seems simply logical that rather than focus preventive attention on inanimate tools of psychopathic endeavor, such as so-called "assault weapons" and high-capacity cartridge magazines, some thought should be given to recognizing certain outstanding characteristics of the types of personalities who are most likely to step off at the deep end and strike out at their imagined oppressors. If some fundamental profiles can be established, those whom the shoes fit, such as Adam Lanza, can be recognized and kept an eye on.
