Why is Adam Lanza not labelled a terrorist?

I think it is absolutely irrelevant. Whenever someone commits an atrocity, be it terrorist or just plain madness, the religion is not the cause. I don't understand why it happens but I also think it is wrong for people to start assuming psychological causes which damage the thousands and thousands of people with mental illness who are more often than not, victims of violent crime themselves.

We need to take stock of the individual and realise that the cause was something in them, not something common to many. Edit: You are absolutely right with regard to autism and Aspergers syndrome. My point exactly.

Sufferers from these conditions are frequently victims of violence from the ignorant and people speculating about any mental condition of this murderer will only cause more damage to innocent people.

Politically it's huge. While it may not matter to some of us in our hearts, the religious training that was given to the man who harbored so much hate will be an interesting point for a lot of people. This shooting has caused people to start to polarize on certain fairly serious political topics.

Religion in schools, gun rights, and access to mental health care. If the shooter were a devout Catholic or other mainstream Christian religion it could be used as a counter argument to those who are trying to say that now is the time to bring Christianity into the public schools. If he were a declared Atheist, people pushing for religion in public schools will say it was his lack of God that caused him to murder so viciously.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.