So Audrey Hale was a high-functioning autistic being oppressed by her awful Christian parents who first forced her to go to that narrow-minded school and then made her get counseling from its dogma-pushing pastor because none of them could understand she was really a trans boy.
Who wouldn’t have exploded like Audrey, who had to change into comfy guy clothes after she’d left the house since those mean mean parents only wanted to see her in dresses?
Hmmm.
She was twenty-eight years old, a driver, with an online business, and not too proud to have worked as a grocery shopper to pick up some necessary cash. But she was still living at home with Mom and Dad who were treating her like a middle-schooler?
Yes, I understand, they were all Christiany and maybe had serious struggles themselves with appropriate boundaries towards adult offspring and what the neighbors might think.
But you know, they had a son living in Brooklyn and going to law school in, presumably, the NY metropolitan region. The devil’s bastion fer shure and he might have gone to Liberty University instead, right?
Why didn’t Audrey get herself out of that soul-crushing environment she was so monstrously tormented by? She was a fully-grown educated person with a marketable skill she could’ve exercised anywhere.
Why didn’t she just leave?
I’m thinking that she was much more profoundly ill than the news reports indicate; some of her artwork obtained by media sources might be indicative of a spiral into serious psychiatric illness, the type notoriously difficult to treat and manage.
And even Tennessee has good laws restricting access to guns by the mentally ill.
It seems to me we’ve had the usual failures here: parents unwilling to confront the extent of their adult child’s unwellness; a treating physician not taking timely action to ensure a person demonstrated to have an interest in gun ownership is precluded from legally obtaining them, or maybe not competent, himself, to recognize the extent of her problems.
I’m not fond of guns. But I’ve had the fascination with deadly weapons by normal healthy people explained to me so well, by a late writer friend, that I can accept the validity of the interest. In unhealthy people there is no validity of interest.
And I’ve seen, in all of these terrible, terrible attacks on schools, the same same pattern, over and over, the pieces fitting together in perfect alignment, parents unable to see the depth of their children’s lost grip on reality, or badly disturbed themselves, or unable to get the authorities to act in timely measure to force involuntary commitments or supervised pharmaceutical interventions for diagnosed dangerous conditions.
Audrey’s sexual attractions and confusions aren’t the heart of the story here, yet everyone seems to have fallen into the snare.
I’m still In disbelief that the mother of the Aurora, CO theater shooter despite knowing her son was struggling mentally regularly took him to a rifle range as an activity where they “connected.”
I agree almost completely, except that the trans thing does factor into it quite heavily. This person, ill as she was, was pushed to targeted violence by the absurd rhetoric espoused by the child abusers on the left (if everything we’re being told is true). The trans community mantra is “words against us are violence, but actual violence by us is understandable”. For further information, see: trans day of vengeance.