Elementary School Children Killed By Gunman in Connecticut

• Tiernan

  We are talking about individuals who their own families have already identified as being "violent".
  
  Nancy Lanza told a babysitter to "never let Adam out of your sight". Now that is quite a warning to give a teenage babysitter in the first place. Also sounds like Mom liked to spend quite a bit of time at the local bar every night just to get away from her monster at home is my bet.
• reclegend22

  

  Tiernan;1345423 wrote:We are talking about individuals who their own families have already identified as being "violent".
  
  Nancy Lanza told a babysitter to "never let Adam out of your sight". Now that is quite a warning to give a teenage babysitter in the first place. Also sounds like Mom liked to spend quite a bit of time at the local bar every night just to get away from her monster at home is my bet.

  You have a very good imagination. In a case such as this, however, it's much better to deal in facts.
• LJ

  

  isadore;1345303 wrote:The state is also one of seven to have an assault weapons ban that specifically lists more than 35 semiautomatic and automatic weapons. It does not appear to cover the .223 caliber rifle used in Friday’s attack.
  http://www.twincities.com/politics-national/2012/12/connecticut-gun-laws-among-the-toughest-in-the-u-s/

  Oh look, the media is wrong again
  

  (3) Any semiautomatic firearm not listed in subdivision (1) of this subsection that meets the following criteria:
  (A) A semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at lease two of the following:
  (i) A folding or telescoping stock;
  (ii) A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
  (iii) A bayonet mount;
  (iv) A flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and
  (v) A grenade launcher; or

• FatHobbit

  

  Tiernan;1345423 wrote:Nancy Lanza told a babysitter to "never let Adam out of your sight". Now that is quite a warning to give a teenage babysitter in the first place.

  I don't think that seems like unreasonable request for a babysitter. Why would you not want them watching your kids? But I've heard so much crap lately that I don't even know what to believe anymore.
  

  Tiernan;1345423 wrote:Also sounds like Mom liked to spend quite a bit of time at the local bar every night just to get away from her monster at home is my bet.

  This is just pure speculation.
• Tiernan

  reclegend22;1345444 wrote:You have a very good imagination. In a case such as this, however, it's much better to deal in facts.

  http://news.msn.com/us/gunmans-mother-kept-trials-of-home-life-hidden
  
  read it & weep Sherlock.
• reclegend22

  

  Tiernan;1345449 wrote:http://news.msn.com/us/gunmans-mother-kept-trials-of-home-life-hidden
  
  read it & weep Sherlock.

  So, what did we learn from that article? That, like any parent, Nancy Lanza was proud of her sons and stopped into a local eatery two or three times a week for a carryout salad and maybe a glass of wine while she chatted with locals about her beloved Red Sox and offered to take care of tabs for anyone who might have needed a meal. Yep. She was a monster.
• FatHobbit

  

  Tiernan;1345449 wrote:http://news.msn.com/us/gunmans-mother-kept-trials-of-home-life-hidden
  
  read it & weep Sherlock.

  What I got from that article is everyone liked the mom and nobody knew the boy and they are trying to figure out why he did it. There's hardly any evidence of anything there.
• Tiernan

  reclegend22;1345457 wrote:. She was a monster.

  Never said she was...only said she was not accepting the reality of harboring something with very bad intentions in her home and not letting anyone else know about it. Having multiple firearms in a home with a kid who has extreme mental problems is at the very minimum moronic and should be criminal.
• derek bomar

  

  what is criminal is that this chick was collecting 280k per year in allimony. Dayyummm
• IggyPride00

  

  Having multiple firearms in a home with a kid who has extreme mental problems is at the very minimum moronic

  I agree with this big time, and hope that out there nationwide there are parents with kids in similar situations who are evaluating whether they should have guns in the house.
  
  If you have a child at home (or young adult in this case) who you think is a potential danger to others, no matter how well you think they're locked away you are asking for trouble having guns around they could get access to.
  
  It won't stop the truly determined, but making them work a little harder for it might be enough to deter some that do it on an impulse. We know this kid tried to buy a gun, but didn't want to deal with the waiting period he ran into.
• BoatShoes

  I've seen reports that this woman was doomsday prepper who believed that the economic collapse was right around the corner.
  
  If she believes she's going to need assault weapons and hollow point bullets to defend herself in the aftermath any day now I'm not sure what you do when she's literally living out a paranoid fantasy.
  
  It sounds like she might've had a tenuous grasp with reality herself...
• Tiernan

  Rich Fkrs with too many dollars and not enough sense.
  
  $280K in alimony to just buy weapons, cruise at Newport, hang out in the bar and hide from the realities at home. I hope the authorities are checking out Dad and his new brood.
• isadore

  LJ;1345445 wrote:Oh look, the media is wrong again

  Lanza's mother, Nancy Lanza, who Lanza also shot dead on Friday, appears to have lawfully purchased and registered the Bushmaster .223 used in the Newtown killings, according to law enforcement sources cited by the Associated Press and other news outlets
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/school-shooter-adam-lanza_n_2312818.html
  Connecticut Shooter Adam Lanza's Guns Were Registered To Mother Nancy Lanza: Official
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/15/connecticut-shooter-guns_n_2306913.html
• LJ

  

  isadore;1345514 wrote:Lanza's mother, Nancy Lanza, who Lanza also shot dead on Friday, appears to have lawfully purchased and registered the Bushmaster .223 used in the Newtown killings, according to law enforcement sources cited by the Associated Press and other news outlets
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/school-shooter-adam-lanza_n_2312818.html

  We already went over that, look back a few pages.
  
  
  and also

  such as a pistol grip and a barrel shroud, which increase a gun's lethality.

  
• isadore

  so they were legal for her to own and for her to train her son in their use?
• LJ

  

  isadore;1345524 wrote:so they were legal for her to own and for her to train her son in their use?

  It was legal for her to own if she purchased it before 1993. It was NOT legal for her son to posses it or shoot it.
  
  Any new AWB in this country will function the exact same.
• isadore

  he got some training.
• Pick6

  

  Seems the people who are against guns have no experience with them at all.
• WebFire

  isadore;1345531 wrote:he got some training.

  So they broke the law. And your point?
• FatHobbit

  

  Does anyone else notice that in horrible situations like this it almost seems natural to look for a way that the crazy person is different from us? It seems to me like many many people are trying to categorize the killer and his family in some category to separate themselves from anything to do with this. People who don't like guns want to blame guns even though the percentage of guns to mass murderers is very low. Other people try to blame violent video games even though there are millions of kids playing violent video games (and the only thing I know for sure is that he 'liked' a video game facebook page) and not very many of them turn into mass murderers. Some people are talking about cracking down on people with mental issues even though we don't really have a clear picture of his mental issues and there are many people with mental issues who don't go on killing sprees. I imagine if the killer had been non white or non christian people would be calling this a terrorist attack. I haven't heard it called it a terrorist attack, but it clearly was.
• LJ

  

  FatHobbit;1345583 wrote:Does anyone else notice that in horrible situations like this it almost seems natural to look for a way that the crazy person is different from us? It seems to me like many many people are trying to categorize the killer and his family in some category to separate themselves from anything to do with this. People who don't like guns want to blame guns even though the percentage of guns to mass murderers is very low. Other people try to blame violent video games even though there are millions of kids playing violent video games (and the only thing I know for sure is that he 'liked' a video game facebook page) and not very many of them turn into mass murderers. Some people are talking about cracking down on people with mental issues even though we don't really have a clear picture of his mental issues and there are many people with mental issues who don't go on killing sprees. I imagine if the killer had been non white or non christian people would be calling this a terrorist attack. I haven't heard it called it a terrorist attack, but it clearly was.

  Yeah, technically he would be classified as a domestic terrorist
• vball10set

  I think it's natural for us to separate ourselves as much as possible from anyone who would commit a crime as heinous as this. Why wouldn't we?
• FatHobbit

  

  vball10set;1345597 wrote:I think it's natural for us to separate ourselves as much as possible from anyone who would commit a crime as heinous as this. Why wouldn't we?

  I'm not saying we should look for ways we are the same. I think we (some people more than others) try to stereotype people into groups that are different from us. (It's "their" fault. Not "ours".)
• BoatShoes

  Pick6;1345544 wrote:Seems the people who are against guns have no experience with them at all.

  What difference does that make? You're attacking the interlocutor rather than the argument. So what if a person has never fired a gun? I was attached to a Seabee unit in the Navy Reserve and have plenty of experience with guns because of it. Free access to Military-style weaponry so kooks can play out their paranoid Red Dawn/anarchy fantasies has no place in civil society. You can defend your home from the imaginary burglar and act out your heroic defense-of-your-castle drama play with a double barreled shotgun and two slugs.
  
  My opinion deserves no more weight than a casual observer who simply wants the mayhem to stop. And that's what it is...mayhem in the United States. You don't have to have handled a gun to see we've listened to the reasons for the need/right to have these weapons for years and it has failed miserably. This should be the last straw.
• FatHobbit

  

  BoatShoes;1345614 wrote:You can defend your home from the imaginary burglar and act out your heroic defense-of-your-castle drama play with a double barreled shotgun and two slugs.

  If the killer had a shotgun do you think the results would have been better?