In these situations, my broken heart always goes out to the families of the perpetrator knowing the nightmare it is  to try to get real help for a mentally ill child, as our daughter Suzanne was as a result of her left temporal lobe epilepsy. Surely we can do better than either ignoring the problem or turning them over to the criminal justice system.
 
Jann McGuire
 
 
 
'I Am Adam Lanza's Mother'
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Written by Liza Long, republished from The Blue Review Friday’s horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut -- has ignited a new discussion on violence in America.