Senseless Conn. tragedy

I'm still reluctant to search for info on it thanks to all the false 'facts' the media released on friday; although I'm pretty curious about a number of things.

When was the divorce?   Did dad desire to hospitalize the mentally ill son and mom refused?

I did read a story yesterday or this morning that said (don't recall if any sources were named) that the mom had realized she could not cope with son any more and was looking at the steps it would take to hospitalize him and the sources guessed that probably sent him into the murderous level of rage.

Gun safe?  My gut feeling is she probably had one and after son attempted to buy a gun at a local Dicks but was refused he searched until he found where the combination was written or stored on computer,  most accounts say he was brainy.

Should high round magazines be limited?   My feeling is that a non insane person can achieve good defense with clips of 10 or less.  Would having to change clips more often have saved any lives from this crazy bastard?  Who knows, probably not,  but it might be useful if there was an armed guard on campus to intercept crazies.   I don't think any citizen resistance against a regime going Stalinist depends on high round magazines  -- I suspect good hunting scopes that allow 'sniper' actions on bureaucrats and their propagandists who felt themselves out of reach would be much more effective a counter to a state that tried to go totalitarian than being able to fire 30 rounds rather than 10 or even 6. 

I think the bigger issue for "OMG it was kids getting shot" is that we encourage the state to gather large groups of precious children into facilities where they are sitting ducks and at the same time discourage having armed security because we don't want to frighten them.     The large groups are probably not good for developing independent thinkers anyway but if we are going to cluster large amounts of kids together they should have a security guard,  seems to work in Israel.


A lot of people think 'mental health drugs' can cause these issues.    I don't know,  the article about the poor mom having decided she needed to commit the psycho son sounded like he was not taking anything.     The groups that gets those drugs has problems in the first place,  maybe the drugs do cause murderous rage to become more dominant than abject fetal ball depression or intense craving for nicotine in some cases....  Really, comes back to this: the only way to maintain some measure of safety is to be able to shoot down psychos that snap and are actively harming/trying to harm innocent lives.

  We could give the state free(er) rein to institutionalize and in some cases we are too lax now but a lot of crazies do not go around shoving strangers and shouting in their faces first and then escalate, they just plot a mass murder and make their attempt to carry it out.   The theater shooter in Aurora was in a grad school program.   Some lower functioning psychos would have been committed before they snapped and hacked someone with a knife back before the ACLU won a series of court cases making it harder to commit people against their wills but I don't know how many of these planners would be netted ahead of time.