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In reply to the discussion: Does it strike anyone as important that the CT shooter had Aspergers and it is often treated with... [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)is the wildly concerted effort that many rightwingers in this country have been making to deflect the discussion away from an attack on one of their pet "issues". During this past week, I've heard rants from wingnuts on just about everything except the need to act on effective gun safety in this nation.
Some rethugs are condemning all public school systems, from their lack of "adequate" security to the "liberal" curriculums taught in them. Expanding on that theme, they go on to implicate all of Fairfield County, Connecticut, as being to blame, suggesting somehow that people residing in the Newtown area lack a proper moral compass or more broadly, that our entire nation's turn away from some omnipotent supernatural force have brought deserved tragedy upon us.
From people with personality flaws; to actual mental illness; to both illegal and prescribed drugs; to single-parenting; to classes of entertainment such as video-games, movies, and tv; and my personal favorite, to the LACK of gun-toting citizens, many rightwingers have fought hard this past week to try and preserve the status of their number one vote-getting wedge by diverting attention away from the discussion that has for far too long been ignored.
So no, your assertion, which has no basis whatsoever in fact, as no reliable report thus far has stated it as true, is not actually important, at all.
What is true is that each and every one of that shooter's 26 victims inside the schoolhouse were murdered within a very short amount of time, minutes, and their shattered bodies were found with 3 to 11 wounds each, bloody bullet-holes.