A Killer In Our Midst, Ignored

THE YOUNG HUMANOID BEING who killed twenty six children and himself a while back turns out to have been a truly strange creature. He lived in the basement of his mother's house, and kept black plastic taped to the windows to totally cover them. He had a huge collection of powerful firearms. Automatic rifles, automatic pistols, and everything in between. His mother evidently bought them for him, and not long before his mass murder spree she had paid for an addition to his arsenal. She also frequently took him to shooting ranges for target practice. His mother, who lived upstairs, never, or almost never saw him. they communicated by texting and email. Evidently, not even any phone calls. This person never came out of the basement. He had a vast array of violent video games, which he evidently played constantly, during nearly all his waking hours. It is unclear how he got food; perhaps his mother aided him in that regard. Quite obviously, the young man was, shall we say, mentally disturbed. His mother quite obviously was an enabler of this mental illness. On the day of his murderous insane shooting spree, his mother was his first victim. If only she had done something sooner, gotten the kid some help. If only anybody in his life had done something, anything, to help this person, and maybe, just maybe, prevent the disaster which followed. But of course their were a limited number of people in his life. But his mother evidently did not perceive his behavior as being mentally disturbed. Such is the eternal non judgmental unconditional love that only a mother can feel. For those of you in other countries, tens of millions of Americns are heavily armed. Every few weeks somebody strolls into some public place, and starts shooting other people at random, surprisingly. American conservatives offer as a solution to this not removal of guns from society, but predicting in advance who is going to kill next, and stopping it before it happens.