After Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Matthew Lerner, a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University, spoke to a commission evaluating Connecticut’s mental health programs. Lerner, one of several experts at the hearing, testified that there is a disconnect between autism and violent criminal behavior.
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting shocked the country last December, the height of the gun control argument finally came to a head.
A month after 26 were slain, 20 of whom were first graders,...
