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Our Sociopaths, Ourselves: What could have stopped Adam Lanza?
National Review ^ | 12/20/2012 | Christina Hoff Sommers

Posted on 12/20/2012 6:51:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 12/20/2012 6:52:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

BTTT.


2 posted on 12/20/2012 6:55:42 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
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To: SeekAndFind

.357 just above the nose!


3 posted on 12/20/2012 6:57:36 AM PST by rktman
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To: SeekAndFind

Apparently he didn’t see the sign saying the school was a “GUN-FREE ZONE”

They need to make it a much bigger sign, and add “criminals, this means YOU!”

That’ll do it...


4 posted on 12/20/2012 6:57:48 AM PST by Mr. K (There are lies, dammed lies, statistics, and democrap talking points.)
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To: SeekAndFind

One extra hole in the head.

Oh, you mean before the massacre?

A padded room. Tranquilizers. Possibly one extra hole in the head.


5 posted on 12/20/2012 6:57:55 AM PST by servo1969
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To: SeekAndFind
It is hard to disagree with those who are demanding stronger gun-control laws

No, it's not. She lost me here.

I expected better from Sommers, usually she's pretty good.

6 posted on 12/20/2012 6:58:04 AM PST by wbill
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To: SeekAndFind

What could have stopped him?

One bullet in the right place.

If you took every gun away from every person who legally owns them, there would still be a million guns in the hands of those who own them illegally and they would be available for sale in the street.

A crazy person has only to go on the internet to find ways to build bombs, and other ways to kill. Knives , baseball bats, automobiles,many thing will kill and some crazed POS will use them.

Taking away a person’s right to self-defense will not stop killings.


7 posted on 12/20/2012 6:59:01 AM PST by Venturer
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“And are we asking the right questions?”

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Possibly. Possibly not. Each year in Chicago alone, more children are gunned down than there were in Newtown.

Where’s the outrage? Where are the calls for gun control in our ghettos?

Oh. That’s right. These are black on black killings. (yawn) Not worthy of mentioning.


8 posted on 12/20/2012 6:59:50 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: servo1969

yep.. the only thing that stops this kind of thing— IS— gun violence, against the criminal.


9 posted on 12/20/2012 7:00:05 AM PST by Chuzzlewit
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To: SeekAndFind
What would have stopped him?

What did?

A bullet.

Unfortunately all the pundits seem to be dancing around the obvious solution: Allow the staff and volunteers to be armed in defense of the children. Make it even more unthinkable to attack a school than a police station.

10 posted on 12/20/2012 7:00:22 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: servo1969

Some time at the cuckoo’s nest. Well, a lot of time there. I remember when the “state” hospitals were open for those that were deemed a threat. All shuttered now cause we sure don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings now do we. Better we have a bunch of dead little kids than hurt one nut cases feelings. Hope the jerks brother has made a call to ron kuby to persue action against all the news jerks that plastered his picture all over worldwide tv as the perp. (And, I can’t stand ron kuby.)

Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.


11 posted on 12/20/2012 7:03:25 AM PST by rktman
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To: SeekAndFind
The only real solution to murder suicides is the threat of a worse life than the one the psycho bastard is currently suffering.

The Left has effectively eliminated afterlife justice so so it goes.

12 posted on 12/20/2012 7:03:51 AM PST by Happy Rain (Which fires first? The gun or the 2nd Amendment haters?)
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What could have stopped Adam Lanza?

Hmmmm ... gee ... that's such a hard question ...

Wait!

I've got it!

An armed teacher could have stopped Adam Lanza.

An armed administrator could have stopped Adam Lanza.

An armed janitor could have stopped Adam Lanza.

An armed cafeteria cook could have stopped Adam Lanza.

An armed volunteer aide could have stopped Adam Lanza.

Wow! That wasn't so hard, after all, was it?

13 posted on 12/20/2012 7:05:26 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

BINGO!


14 posted on 12/20/2012 7:05:33 AM PST by basil (Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Mass shooters go to the least protected areas with the most people. “Gun-free” zones create targets, whether they be malls, schools, or cities where guns are prohibited.

Look at the violence in DC, Chicago, New York which have the stongest gun control laws.

Look rather at the shooters. Mental health issues, no access to care, a tie to an anti-psychotic drug. But politicians want to blame the gun, not the person. Much easier. New laws will NOT elminate these attacks.


15 posted on 12/20/2012 7:06:52 AM PST by rstrahan
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What could have stopped him? A $300.00 piece of bullet proof glass. With that in place, he cannot shoot out the glass to get into the school. The admin calls 911. The police come to the school and kill him before he can do any real damage.

If a school isn’t going to allow CC, then body armor the school. It doesn’t solve the problem, but it might just slow it down enough so the police have a chance.


16 posted on 12/20/2012 7:10:03 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (You can't bring something to its knees that refuses to stand on its own)
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To: SeekAndFind

What could have stopped him?
The day of teh shooting: a good clean shot to teh face from an armed protector.

Prior to that?
Getting him the help he needed for his mental issues.
Even prior to that: teachers actually teaching instead of politically correct pablum that produces a fine crop of sociopaths from our schools who don’t care about anyone but themselves and their ‘feelings’.


17 posted on 12/20/2012 7:10:40 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: rstrahan

Agree.


18 posted on 12/20/2012 7:11:46 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is evil in this world, and can only be stopped by righteous citizens willing to defend what is right.

But then I guess to a leftist in this country even evil has rights that must be respected.

Leftist ideologies are a birth defect IMHO.


19 posted on 12/20/2012 7:12:42 AM PST by txnativegop (Fed up with zealots)
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To: SeekAndFind
Same thing that has always put an end to evil... A good person with equal, or greater, weapons and the will to use them to stop the evil from spreading.

That is the ONLY solution that is proven to work.

20 posted on 12/20/2012 7:13:26 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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