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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of folks want to believe this could never happen to them, hence all of the second-guessing of the parenting.

The salient issue here isn't when folks got a "proper" diagnosis or choosing a different provider. It is access to firearms. [/quote]

Adam was a ticking time bomb.  He was going to go off at some point whether he had a gun at his disposal or not.  Banning firearms would not have made him well.[/quote]

...but 26 people, mostly young children, may be alive today if he hadn't had access to those guns--the tragedy might have been prevented or at least contained. Not to get too political here, but that has to be said. [/quote]

Maybe.  Or he could have plowed his car into a playground taking out 27 kids. Or set off a bomb or torched a preschool.[/quote]

But his obsession was with school shootings, particularly Columbine.  He kept a list of mass shootings and posted on the internet about buying guns and shooting people.  As is common with ASD, he had a restricted interest, but it was a rare and extremely dangerous one.[/quote]

He was obsessed with violent thoughts.  If it hadn't been a gun, it would have been something else.  Banning guns wouldn't have made those obsessive thoughts go away. [/quote]

I don't think banning guns is the answer either, but there should not have been guns in his home.  Driving a car into a playground would probably not have caused as many deaths.  Guns are made to kill people, and they work very well, which is why they are the method of choice for mass murderers.  [/quote]

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