Sixteen year old Brenda Ann Spencer who lived across the road from the Grover Cleveland Elimentary School, surrendered and pleaded guilty to two murders and assault with a deadly weapon (she shot and injured eight children at the school). While holed up in her home, prior to surrendering and her arrest, a reporter telephoned her and asked "why" - to which she answered "I don't like Mondays".
The Wikipedia page reports that the sixteen year old girl lived in poverty with her father - sleeping together on a single mattress on the floor surrounded by empty alcohol bottles.
Prior to the shooting she had a psychiatric evaluation requested by her Probation Officer - following an arrest for shooting out of the school windows with an air gun - but her father refused to allow her to be admitted to hospital for treatment.
A few days later her father gave her a Ruger 10/22 rim-fire rifle fitted with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition for Christmas. - then January 29th she used that gun to commit the shootings. Spencer later said "I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun".
In prison Spencer was diagnosed and treated for epilepsy and depression - and had been found earlier to have an injury to the temporal lobe of her brain - and then again later - after self harming (when her girl friend was released from prison) she was found to be psychotic and unfit for release.
I would be interested to learn her IQ. as many US prison inmates are said to properly be found to be mentally handicapped rather than criminal.
Some thirty-seven years later it seems that she is still held in prison.
Blame it on the guns?
I have given much consideration to the condition of "anti-gunners" and their thinking. - I reckon they are simply confusing their anti-violence feelings and anti-crime wishes and blending them into a 'catch-all' ban the guns cry.
Marty K.
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