We are being forced to consider that the situation is a lot more complicated than we'd like it to be.
We are also forced to consider that our social structure has completely changed, that these kinds of individuals now riddle that structure due to that change; that the State knows no options other that to continue to screw down tighter & tighter controls at the individual level; and that a rise in "predictive behavior analysis" will be an increasingly invasive force in those controls.
"We have met the enemy and he is us," notes Pogo, and I note that "us" is the male half of our population (current Forum members excluded, of course)
- Over the past thirty years, the rise in violent crime parallels the rise in families abandoned by fathers.
- High-crime neighborhoods are characterized by high concentrations of families abandoned by fathers.
- State-by-state analysis by Heritage scholars indicates that a 10 percent increase in the percentage of children living in single-parent homes leads typically to a 17 percent increase in juvenile crime.
- The rate of violent teenage crime corresponds with the number of families abandoned by fathers.
- The type of aggression and hostility demonstrated by a future criminal often is foreshadowed in unusual aggressiveness as early as age five or six. [This my wife can attest to FIRST HAND... as a 1st-grade teacher for 20 years]
- The future criminal tends to be an individual rejected by other children as early as the first grade who goes on to form his own group of friends [OR STAYS A LONER], often the future delinquent gang
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1995/03/bg1026nbsp-the-real-root-causes-of-violent-crime
The real bottom line in the NewTown report is that they don't know what caused it, and that the professional shrinks say they never saw it coming. That is the sort of analysis that fairly begs for a "disarm everybody" response by today's state, since they feel utterly powerless to come up with any other action -- and refuse to confront the politically incorrect Elephant in the Room.
The truly sad part is not that one man with a gun was able to do all this.
The sad part is the refusal to consider that one man with a gun could have stopped it.
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is – and remains - King.