Nancy Lanza May Have Been a ‘Survivalist’ and a Prepper (Oh my goodness!)

Jezebel ^ | December 17, 2012 | Madeleine Davies

[2ndDivisionVet]

More details are emerging about the home life of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza, though it's always best to take these things with a big grain of salt. The Telegraph is now reporting that Nancy Lanza, Adam's mother and first victim on Friday, was actively stockpiling guns and supplies to prepare for an economic collapse. Says her sister-in-law Marsha Lanza:

"She prepared for the worst. Last time we visited her in person, we talked about prepping -– are you ready for what could happen down the line, when the economy collapses?"

Nancy Lanza, according to police, had five guns legally registered to her name, at least three of which were carried by Adam Lanza into the school.

At this point, it's easy and natural to sensationalize and speculate into the happenings of the Lanza household. Adam Lanza was, without a doubt, unstable and Nancy Lanza was, at best, struggling to handle it (a week before the shooting, she reportedly told friends that she was losing her son, saying "it was getting worse" and she was "having trouble reaching him"). If we deem them as doomsday preppers, it becomes a little easier to separate their reality from our own, to make us feel that we know what the danger signs are and to help to help comfort ourselves into thinking that knowing all this could protect our children and ourselves from a similarly horrible event in the future...

[exit82]

“Deemed reasonably appropriate” by whom?

A judge, a sheriff, a church lady?

You’re a staunch defender of which amendment again?

I don’t know of any law that sets such a parameter.

[Madhattan]

The same people who get to decide use of excessive force and many other legal terms. Us. The people in a civilized society. By holding people accountable, it means be able to explain it to a jury and living with the consequences of those decisions. It is not illegal to own fertilizer especially if you have a yard. A quarter of an acre grassy patch in suburbia will draw the warranted attention of the ATF if you buy a thousand pounds of ammonium nitrate. What is the difference? Sudafed provides relief from a cold. Buying huge amounts of it to feed a meth lab its required pseudphedrine is a very real threat to society as well. Can we justify abandoning common sense for the sake of ideology? Really?

[Uncle Chip]

She was right to be a prepper and a survivalist to some degree, however the enemy had already breached the defenses and was within the walls.

[exPBRrat]

How convenient... now our negro loving government has the perfect excuse to inspect every basement whose voter they are in doubt of.

[combat_boots]

So is this Administration