Adam Lanza Revenge Tragedy

Sadly, these terrible tragedies also involve adults. One in particular was the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting that occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, where twenty-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members. This incident was the deadliest mass shooting at a grade school in U.S. history by a single person. So, how was this terrible tragedy linked to video games? Reports suggested that Lanza spent the majority of his time playing violent video games because police found numerous violent video games in his basement. However, people who knew Lanza said that he spent the majority of his time playing video games identical to Super Mario Bros and Dance Dance Revolution. Now, if that is

For instance, when he was in elementary school, he was diagnosed with a sensory-integration disorder, but later a psychiatrist diagnosed him with Asperger syndrome, which is a disorder that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication. Also, according to Lanza’s father, he also had obsessive-compulsive disorder. Nevertheless, in the beginning, Lanza’s parents tried to find him help at an early age in the form of prescribed behavioral-based therapy and by giving him antidepressants, but Lanza’s mother believed that there was nothing wrong with her child, so after a short time she discontinued his therapy visits and took him off of his medication. Unfortunately, that may have not been the best choice because Lanza’s father always suspected that there was something odd about his son. However, due to the pressures of his wife and other family members, they just went on with their lives, but sadly without proper therapy and medication Lanza’s symptoms only got worse, eventually leading to his fascination of mass shootings, most notably the Columbine High School massacre and the Northern Illinois University 2008

Apparently, she often took Adam to local shooting ranges in order to teach him how to shoot, but that may not have been the best choice considering his obsessions with mass shootings and her son’s mental illnesses, because the last thing that mother’s should do is introduce firearms to their mentally ill children. Nevertheless, reports suggested that Lanza’s mother did not confide any fear of her son to any family or friends and continued to live with guns in her home making them easily accessible to Adam. As a result, this tragedy prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal and for new federal and state legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition. However, even with these laws, it is still too easy to obtain firearms, because as mentioned before if a person wants to obtain a firearm and they’re either underage of they’ve had trouble with the law, then all they have to do is find somebody with a clean background, who is of legal age and is willing to purchase a firearm for