Good post. I’ve read through the entire thread (900+ posts before yours), all kinds of hysteria and off-the-wall speculation. Doesn’t do us well here on FR when viewed by others.
Took my walk about 40 minutes ago, from the end of my street I can see Danbury hospital which is supposed to be on “lockdown”, though I can’t understand what for. The Catholic School at the end of the street had two police cars there.
I retired last January, but I used to drive through Sandy Hook each night on my way home from work. There’s a traffic light where I’d turn left — if you were to turn right go just a short way, the driveway to the school is there.
Sandy Hook is normally a very quiet place, as is Newtown (although it was here, too, that Richard Crafts killed his wife Helle and put her through the woodchipper). It probably hasn’t had more than 25 homicides in the last forty years, probably longer.
Trying to get a handle on what happened has been difficult all day, with conflicting reports coming in, particularly about -which- person was the shooter. Perhaps he had stolen his brother’s ID.
Also, if the shooter was indeed the 20-year-old, I don’t think he could have possessed the handguns legally in Connecticut — age minimum here may be 21 (someone please correct me if I’m wrong). Even if he could have possessed them (and carried them) in NJ, I don’t believe CT has any “reciprocity”. It looks like these weapons were stolen from either his brother, his mother, or someone else. If the Bushmaster rifle was found in the trunk, it probably hadn’t been used at all (at least at the school).
Looks like it’s going to be at least one or two more days before enough information is discovered to piece it all together...
FOX said it was his mother’s guns.