Undated student ID photo of Adam Lanza from Western Connecticut State University.
NBC
A new photo of Sandy Hook massacre gunman Adam Lanza has emerged: a college ID snapshot that shows him staring wide-eyed into the camera as though scared out of his wits.
The picture, one of just a few that have been made public since the Dec. 14 shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, was part of Lanza's records from Western Connecticut State University, where he took classes in 2008 and 2009.
There is nothing in the documents that would foreshadow the monstrous attack, just a few odd notes.
When he took a placement exam in May 2008, Lanza refused to answer some background questions — including his gender.
I don't think he's trying to look "scared out of his wits" in that photo. To me it looks more like he's trying to imitate the Talosians of Star Trek, The Original Series.
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Here's what I don't like about the way this story is being told. The shooter clearly had problems. I'll refrain from using his name, following David Brin's suggestion that we don't turn these wackos into cultural anti-heroes. What's being done though is an implication that anyone who is odd must thereby be dangerous. Having observed many students for more than a decade and human beings in general for longer than that, I can say for a certainty that demonizing people for their oddity is the wrong approach. There's nothing wrong with being odd. There's a whole hell of a lot wrong with murdering innocents.
ReplyDeleteIf our media would treat this story as an example of a moral failing, rather than as a psychological quirk, that would go a long way toward preventing copycats.
A macabre depiction of the results of the lack of proper diet, enema, and the inevitable consequences of habitual onanism.
DeleteI encounter many such disturbed and malnourished youths at the Natural Rehabilitation Clinic that I oversee. They return to society cured of their polluted bowels, corrupted minds, and animalistic dispositions.
Name the clinic. Name your sources for your notions masterbation harms a person or that an enema does anything to affect behavior--other than causing efforts to avoid such a thing in the future. John Harvey Kellogg isn't a credible source. Show us something from refereed medical journals that supports your claim here.
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