Lanza's Photos and Details Broken Down

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/photos-details-emerge-newtown-mass-shooter-adam-lanza-124951161.html

            First I encourage you to read this article, then I will drop some knowledge on you.  The first thing I notice is the title “New photos, details emerge of Newton mass shooter Adam Lanza” the capitalization is all wrong; the first letter of every word that is important should be capitalized.  Now I am not the best writer, as you will see, but this is a simple thing they teach you in journalism school.

            Now I would like to say I am in no way condoning what he did, I feel sorry for the families that lost loved ones in the shooting, but someone needs to enlighten the readers and expose flaws in the writing of these articles.

            The article states that Adam had been spending more time alone in his mother’s home; it then goes on and says that he suffered from  Asperger's which made social interactions challenging.  No one notices he had Asperger’s that is why he was antisocial and isolated himself.  His mother on top of that encouraged the isolation by attempting to make him more independent.  Now I am no parent but if a child is isolating themselves wouldn't you want to fix the problem not encourage the isolation?  I understand that no one could have predicted the shooting that had happened but it could have been avoided had the parents took more interest in his life instead of encouraging the isolation he was placing himself in.

            In the middle of the article the author takes a jab at violent video games.  Now my view on violent video games are that the games don’t make people violent, there is research to back both sides but the heard of the matter is if the parents take more interest in the life of their child they are less prone to do violent things.  The article says that Adam reloaded his rifle more often than he should have and that is because he learned it from video games.  This is not true it is some common sense.  Adam had spent a lot of time at the rifle range with his mother and he is smart so he knows the more rounds you have in the rifle means the more you can shoot.  Also he knew from using a rifle that if you don’t deplete the magazine it is quicker to reload causing you to put more rounds down range.  Video games don’t teach you how to reload a rifle it’s the hands on experience that teach you how to use guns.

            Now the article is not all bad, I do give the author props for saying “Bushmaster Semi-Automatic Rifle” instead of assault rifle.  The author did do something right in an otherwise flawed article.  Now these posts are just my thoughts.  I use common sense to help better the population.  I just translate the article for people to understand, I hope I opened your eyes to a different side of the view.