Tragic and painful situations are often remedied by an extended toad trip.

See: Animal House

I had a dream that Brian Williams was giving a news report on these same lines.

Alas, the alarm went off ....

Wow...they really sensationalized some rather mundane Internet messages. So she recently learned that she had a half-sister; that did not cause her son to have the psychiatric and developmental problems he had been known to have since childhood.

For those who haven´t dealt with these disorders, it isn´t uncommon for a parent to look all over the country - even abroad - to find a place that can help such adult children achieve some level of independence in adulthood. The more they tell about Nancy Lanza, the more normal she is, doing the things that countless others of us are doing in an attempt to help our loved ones. Housing isn´t there. Job programs aren´t there. Laws make it difficult for parents to get adult children into treatment.

The world tends to turn its back on these adults...until something happens. And then it calls them monsters. They weren´t always monsters. They were someone´s beautiful children. Lack of treatment, difficulty in accessing treatment, allowed them to descend into a situation where everyone suffers. Notice that Nancy Lanza could afford treatment, could afford help - but still was looking all over the country to locate it, as so little help is available. Imagine what it is like for those who can´t afford it!

As a society, we can choose to turn our back on the seriously mentally ill...but they will still be with us.

Is ths the same snarky woman who referred to Nancy Lanza as a ´survivalist´?

The one interview I saw showed this woman to be a first class b....

It´s not a matter of turning our back on the mentally ill, it´s removing the dangerous ones from society, so they are less of threat to themselves and those around them. The same is true of the mentally retarded. Not everyone can be assimilated into society. This does not mean that "warehousing" the mentally ill in asylums is the answer, but we are fine with gated communities for the elderly, who may have a host of physical and mental ailments that can be treated centrally. Why is it any different for the mentally ill and mentally retarded? Because in the late 20th century, socialist do-gooders masquerading as civil libertarians shuttered otherwise good facilities claiming that *all* mentally ill people, unless they were criminals, should be mainstreamed. This is the same "logic" from the same people that say *all* mentally retarded, even those with tendencies for sexual predation, should be placed in the community. And privacy laws prevent the rest of us from knowing that the supposedly innocent-acting mentally retarded guy living next store may, in a flash, turn into a rampaging rapist. The prior poster is correct: there are no facilities, and limited resources, because they have been gutted.

This does not sound like she was looking to have him committed, just helped.

There are college programs for students with special needs, like dyslexia. Maybe she thought there might be one for Adam.

Too bad Adam didn´t go out and get a job at Burger King or something, just to get his butt out of the house. Might have made all the difference.

Or maybe he was basically doomed, though that never means that he had to shoot up a school on the way down.

So much misinformation has been out there. So many theories, bogus because they were based upon misinformation or simply filling in blanks.

About the proposed trip to Washington that many were sure troubled Adam and set him off:

Another friend Ellen Adriani said Nancy was devoted to her two sons and took care of all Adam´s needs.

Her other son, 24-year-old Ryan works for Ernst & Young in Manhattan and lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Nancy was believed to have been planning a new life with her 20-year-old son Adam as he made plans to go to college. She had been thinking about going wherever he decided to study engineering - Seattle or one of the Carolinas - and live nearby, according to the New York Post.

Russ Hanoman told the Post: ´They had recently gone to many different colleges looking for the right program for Adam, and the right living situation.´

She was traveling, looking for the right place to live. With him.

Someday many are going to feel a little foolish for having jumped on every erroneous tidbit and created their own story about this family. No one can accurately create another family´s story based upon media reports. No one.

PS. The "commitment" story came from a 25 year old man whose connection to this family was so tenuous that it was almost nonexistent. And he had "heard" it from someone else. They call that "a rumor". Or a madeup story to get his name in the media? These stories attract a lot of publicity seekers.

I think its a mistake to homeschool children on the autism spectrum. And definitely a mistake to take them to gun ranges and keep guns in the house. She was in denial. Her son was not normal. He needed specialists that I am certain were available in her upscale school system. He should have been socialized, not kept at home until late teens.

If the young man was as mentally ill as has been portrayed then the mother was quite irresponsible for not keeping her guns in a gun safe or on her person.

I do wish people would stop popping off with erroneous reports they have heard from lord knows where.

Adam Lanza was NOT homeschooled. His high school teachers and counselors have given repeated interviews regarding the efforts made to work with his personality disorder(s).

Is there a credible report the the mother taught him to shoot the guns? Reports on Adam run the spectrum. I have seen classmates describe him as a normal kid.

In another article posted here, CNN is reporting that it took the police 20 minutes to arrive after the first 911 call! What!?!

Poster #12, I have not seen a report of Nancy Lanza´s autopsy, have you??

It is stupid speculation to make a statement such as yours.

1) It has been reported (however truthfully) that she was found in bed with four gun shot wounds to the head. she [[might]] have been struck unconscious to enable Adam to find the key to the gun safe, then shot after he unlocked the guns.

We do not know if the guns were easily assessable or not.

2) It has been reported that Nancy took Adan to the gun range last week. It has also been reported they have not been to the range for at least six months.

It has been reported that the police have subpoenaed medical records. Those records have not been released to the public.

3) There have been rumors from various sources about Adams "mental illness" but no responsible legal authority has said how long he has exhibited violent tendencies.

We don´t know if has been a threat for a year, for six months, for six hours or six minutes before he "snapped" and decided to kill little children.

Speculation is a nice, fun, little pastime, it is not discussing the truth, of which we have not heard enough to fill a thimble.

The MSM needs to demonize her and her son in as effort to take mental illness out of the equation. They want this to be all about gun control and mental illness weakens their agenda. We can´t let them.

You don´t have to care about this family or spare them any sympathy, but like her and her son are many more. We better find a way to review all the variables that go into these senseless acts. That includes developing and understanding the profile of these people.

Nancy was frustrated and alone. Deep down inside these moms know their kids are ticking timebombs. We got to find out what they are harboring in their basements. Why is the WH not talking about obamanocare mental health initiatives.