Newtown gunman's dad opens up in magazine article

SeattlePI ^ | 3-10-14 | Andrew Solomon

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NEW YORK (AP) — In his most extensive comments about the 2012 Connecticut school massacre, the father of gunman Adam Lanza describes his struggle to comprehend what his son did — an act that "couldn't get any more evil" — and how he now wishes that his son had never been born.

Peter Lanza also told The New Yorker magazine in a series of interviews last fall that he believes Adam would have killed him, too, if he had the chance. And he often contemplates what he could have done differently in his relationship with Adam, although he believes the killings couldn't have been predicted.

"Any variation on what I did and how my relationship was had to be good, because no outcome could be worse," Peter Lanza told the magazine in an article dated March 17. "You can't get any more evil. ... How much do I beat up on myself about the fact that he's my son? A lot."

He said he hadn't seen his son in two years when Adam killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in December 2012.

[CorporateStepsister]

Truth be told, I’ve been through a LOT and Lanza had choices to make either way. He was already way into the culture of death and he was WAY too into living a life where he was an empty vessel waiting to be use by a demon.

I sincerely think that he was possessed (does not excuse what he did to those children by the way since there is choice in choosing to do the work of the devil) and evil was acting through him.

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I’m sure that demons sometimes work through mental illness.