I skimmed thru the report, picked out some of the bullet points for this post. I edited some to illustrate my point but if you read the whole report the context is essentially the same. The numbering is my own and is not the order in which they appear in the report. IMHO this rabid mutant's psychosis would have been apparent to even to anyone with the basic mental health education or experience. To be fair, not all the signs were apparent or manifested themselves at once, but the progression was clear.
1.) The shooter had a cell phone but never used it. Calls all went to voice mail. His father would just e-mail him when he wanted to reach him.
2.) The mother took care of all of the shooter’s needs. And she was the only person to whom the shooter would talk.
3.) The shooter was particular about the food that he ate and its arrangement on a plate in relation to other foods on the plate. Certain types of dishware could not be used for particular foods. The mother would shop for him and cook to the shooter’s specifications, though sometimes he would cook for himself. Reportedly the shooter did not drink alcohol, take drugs, prescription or Otherwise, and hated the thought of doing any of those things.
4.) The mother did the shooter’s laundry on a daily basis as the shooter often changed clothing during the day. She was not allowed in the shooter’s room, however, even to clean. No one was allowed in his room.
5.) The shooter disliked birthdays, Christmas and holidays. He would not allow his mother to put up a Christmas tree. The mother explained it by saying that shooter had no emotions or feelings. The mother also got rid of a cat because the shooter did not want it in the house.
6.) When the shooter had his hair cut, he did not like to be touched and did not like the sound of clippers, so they were not used much. He would sit with his hands in his lap and always look down, giving one word answers if the cutter tried to engage him in conversation.
7.) Service personnel who worked on the property at 36 Yogananda Street never entered the home. They spoke with the mother outside in the yard or at the bottom of driveway. They were instructed never to ring the doorbell and to make prior arrangements before using power equipment as her son had issues with loud noises. The shooter was observed at times coming and going from the residence.
8.) There were a number of people who knew the mother over the years, some fairly well, who had never met the shooter – although were aware of his existence – and had never been inside her residence.
9.) The fifth grade was also the year that, related to a class project, the shooter produced the “Big Book of Granny” in which the main character has a gun in her cane and shoots People. The story includes violence against children. There is no indication this was ever handed in to the school. the shooter indicated that he did not like sports, did not think highly of himself and believed that everyone else in the world deserved more than he did.
10.) In seventh grade, a teacher described the shooter as intelligent but not normal, with anti-social issues. He was quiet, barely spoke and did not want to participate in anything. His writing assignments obsessed about battles, destruction and war, far more than others his age. The level of violence in the writing was disturbing. At the same time, when asked to write a poem, he was able to write a beautiful one and presented it in public.
11.) In the school setting, the shooter had extreme anxiety and discomfort with changes, noise, and physical contact with others. He was also remembered for pulling his sleeves over his hand to touch something. The shooter was unable to make eye contact, sensitive to light and couldn’t stand to be touched. Over time he had multiple daily rituals, an inability to touch door knobs, repeated hand washing and obsessive clothes changing, to the point that his mother was frequently doing laundry.
12.) [An] acquaintance said the shooter seemed to enjoy nature and mentioned the possibility of going hiking more than once. Topics of conversation included world and current events, the shooter indicated that he had an interest in mass murders and serial killing. They never spent a lot of time discussing them, but it would be a topic of conversation.
13.) Those mental health professionals who saw him did not see anything that would have predicted his future behavior. [from the report]
Among the other danger signs as mentioned above were some real paradoxes.
#6,7, & 11 make it plain about the shooters almost disabling phobias concerning noise, light, touching objects/physical contact with others & objects. Yet he had no problems with handling & shooting firearms, although I saw somewhere in the report there were earplugs in his ears when they found his body. My Bushmaster carbine has a noise & flash signature that is very apparent even with ear protection. Inside that school with the masonry walls...it must have sounded like a cannon going off. The feelings of low esteem, fascination with violence and lack of empathy & emotional attachment...well that explains how he was able to murder five year old children with abandon. And then pile their bodies up and continue to keep shooting them.
That allegedly trained and experienced professionals in the field could not determine he was a threat to himself and others speaks volumes.
What is worse IMHO, are members of a political party and MSM who seize this tragedy as an opportunity stand on the graves of the victims and use them as a cudgel against law-abiding firearms owners in a pathetic attempt to demonize and disarm them. The guns are only partly responsible for the tragedy at Sandy Hook. The "progressive" laws passed by liberal democrats, which make it all but impossible to confine the dangerous mentally ill are the real villains.
