and did nothing about it...How far has our society fallen?
We'll see. Maybe that was the trigger?? Maybe they were going back in his school records???
Since he was in the school the day before arguing with 4 persons (3 are dead), I'd say LE and others know what this was all about.
Back in the day, and in many other countries today, that behavior would have gotten him sent to the loony bin.
Back in the day, and in many other countries today, that behavior would have gotten him sent to the loony bin.
Codependent mother. I have known two people like this. Oftentimes mothers will take up the “cause” of a mentally ill son to the point that it goes against their husbands (this couple got divorced in 2009, which I believe was around the time the kid, Adam, was about to turn 18).
However, in her defense, I will say that she probably couldn’t have gotten him comitted no matter what she did. I’m sure she was scared of him (which is probably really why she had the guns) but she had done what mothers frequently do, which is go out and cry “my baby,” when some thug is being carted off for murders or even torture murders of multiple victims.
It’s a mother thing. But that’s why we have got to have policies that protect society and not the sensibilities of overprotective (and soon to be dead) mothers. Strangely enough, the one person these protected madmen always hate most is the mother who has protected them. She was the first one he killed.
Knowing her son was mentally ill, why would she have taught him to shoot, and why were the guns accessible to him?
What kind of BS journalism is that?
New York Daily News, what a crap rag.
NO agenda here folks, it was the "gun loving moms fault"
Horrors, I read she was a prepper too!
I saw the ME on TV last night, choking back tears, the shots were fired from a rifle, with tissue tearing bullets.
Though he prefaced that by saying the info was too "clinical" and maybe it shouldn't be said, he said it anyway.
This isn't about the kids or the families or even the survivors, it's all agenda driven now.
and did nothing about it...” gun-loving “
“drinking buddy”
no bias here.........much
Why wasn’t he sent to a mental hospital long ago? They knew for years the kid was a danger.
So, the woman knew of her sons mental condition and did not secure her firearms?
I am curious what the mothers mental condition was.
I hear a report this morning on FNC that claimed he could not feel pain. It is possible I am wrong but I don’t think so.
And she gave him access to her weapons for a full year after this? That’s really asking for what happened here.
Ive dealt with a kid like Adam Lanza before..I used to babysit a little boy(Who was 8 at the time) and his 11 year old adopted sister. The boy was incredibly bright, but severely mentally ill. His father was a schizophrenic who ended up killing himself so the boy was genetically prone to this behavior. He scared the hell out of me, would threaten to kill everyone in the neighborhood with a knife..held a knife at me once, I yelled at him to put it down and he did and started crying “What did I do?” he would tell me after he held a knife to me. I knew he wouldn’t stab me but it still scared me. His mother was an enabler, always made excuses for him. He would grab a knife from the house and chase neighborhood kids down the street..always threatening to kill himself and others. I told his mother either you get him help or I am calling CPS..she got him the help that he needed and put him on strong anti psychotic drugs to help him..I haven’t seen this family in a few years since the kids grew up and no longer needed a babysitter/tutor..but I talk to the girl who is now a senior in high school and from what she says her brother is doing very well
“gun-loving mom” , “blast them from the sky”.
A little bit of an agenda here?
A drinking buddy of Lanza
the bar pal, who did not wish to be named
... the drinking buddy said.
the conversation last week over craft beers
The anonymous pal remembered ...She "was a country girl" who loved to hunt with a falcon that would scare game she'd blast out of the sky.
Sorry but after the last comment of this apparent drunk who wishes to remain anonymous, I'm not buying any of this report..........
I've looked into falconry and the sport is the most highly regulated endeavor in the United States. You just don't go out and buy a falcon or other raptor to house as a pet or hunting companion........
Here's a link to a recent story in The New York Times about a 13-year-old girl with the same problem. It must be awful for everyone, really. Ashlyn Blocker, the Girl Who Feels No Pain
A lot of single moms surrender to their boys and just hope for the best. They are the ones who get mad when some homeowner kills them during a break-in instead of trying to wound them.
I guarantee he threatened her more than once and she wouldn’t kick him out. She watched him turn into a mass killer and did nothing to stop it.
Virginia Tech did the same thing to Cho. They ignored all the signs. The only person who did anything was Nikki Giovanni and they ignored her.