How 'genius' honor student Adam Lanza became masked killer

Daily Mail ^ | 12/15/12

[BunnySlippers]

Ms Conte called the ordeal 'sad' for Lanza and his family, and suggested that the violence is a portion of a much larger situation.

'Guns are easy to point to, but it's really a mental health issue.'

[Post Toasties]

When whites were slaughtering American Indians, which video game were they emulating.

Whites historically were not guilty of 'slaughtering Indians' except in isolated, small instances. Perthaps you have the wrong continent if you are thinking of genocide. Try Europe, Asia or Africa if you want to accuse somebody of 'slaughtering'.

[Fightin Whitey]

When “American Indians” were slaughtering other “American Indians” before the advent of the white man, what do you suppose motivated them?

So it’s your idea that “American Indians” lived in peace and harmony?

Who did you learn your history from? Howard Zinn?

[William Tell]

BunnySlippers said: "I’m planning on buying another ... and may be surprised."

Excellent.

The FFL I use lives about 65 miles from my house. I choose to deal with him because a closer FFL refused to transfer a perfectly legal rifle for me.

I'll look forward to hearing your account of just how easy it is to buy guns in Kalifornia and just how much safer you FEEL after having jumped through all the hoops.

If you plan on replacing a missing handgun, you might even find that you are prohibited from buying that same model because the manufacturer hasn't paid the state the required fee to prove that the particular model is NOT UNSAFE.

I'm goind to laugh myself silly if the day arrives that the mass of people in Kalifornia suddenly realize that they need a gun and find that the various legal impediments that they have supported cause them grief. They are certainly not getting any help from me.

[ilovesarah2012]

Switching channels last night, I saw MSNBC a couple of times and all they were talking about was gun control. Nothing about the victims. I immediately switched channels again.

[PieterCasparzen]

Nothing to do regarding the shooter who committed suicide, obviously.

Of course, LE, I’m sure, will finish the investigation to see if anyone else is guilty of anything.

[Eva]

The picture of Adam Lanza looks like he had Graves disease, which included psychiatric symptoms. I don’t know how anyone could miss it, the eyes are a dead give away.

Look up Graves disease in Wikipedia.

[dinodino]

I totally agree with you on the locks. I split the difference and keep the guns unloaded, but with full mags and speedloaders. It will add a second or two to my response time, but adds a bit of peace of mind the rest of the time.

BunnySlippers probably should not be trusted with guns at all.

[Post Toasties]

I'm not leaving video games off my list of causative influences by any means. I see commercials on TV for ever more elaborate pursuit and destroy video games, where every vision of the world is armageddon, and I just don't see the appeal to children of a well society - the appeal must be to children who are suffering from the effects of a sick society and are not being allowed the means to express their frustrations with it through normal avenues because of delusional political correctness, except through sublimated video game violence. It is hardly surprising to me that we are seeing more and more examples of the natural result of this.

In this instance, I think that, if this woman had been really concerned about her mentally ill son, that she should have taken realistic precautions to deny him access to deadly force. There is little the state could do, except perhaps to correlate his mental condition with her gun ownership and prod her to do the same. This is something that merely passing a law will not allow, since I strongly doubt that the informational infrastructure is in place to accomplish this.

I've read most of the commentary here, and the fact remains that most firearms violence is with illegal weapons, not correlating in any way with this sad occasion. The concern is not in general with legal registered gun owners, and ultimately, if you could find an honest Lefty with any common sense, they would agree, but they want to consolidate their power, and taking guns from everybody would facilitate that. It is secondary to inconsequential to them whether crime with illegal fireams is reduced, despite their rhetoric.

[Post Toasties]

Just the latest incarnation of the myth of the Enlightenment’s ‘Noble Savage’ which contributed fairly directly to the French Revolution and all the nightmares of Socialism, including 150,000,000 excess deaths during the 20th Century.

[combat_boots]

“Eric Holder 1995 _We must Brainwash People To Be Against Guns ...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNE5vuI9TNo

Ruby Ridge
Waco
Elian
Fast & Furious
Libya
Syria
___________

[QualityMan]

Bingo

thank you for a sane response.

[Tailback]

many past events of toddlers getting their parents guns

You're thinking with emotions. More toddlers die from accidental suffocation than getting their parents guns. More children drown than die from gunshots. More children die in car accidents than are shot.

You're parroting the media propaganda spread around by Sarah Brady types. They never let the facts get in the way of cashing in on a good tragedy.

[chris37]

Ah, pleasure, sir.

Sanity is a very rare thing in this world these days. I want a solution to this. I really do. All those dead kids...my God.

I am not even interested in listening to gun control, civil right stealing vultures. They have no solutions. All they want to do is make this worse. They can go to Hell.

It is time to defend our God given children with our God given right to bear arms.

[graywaiter]

I blame WOMEN...plain and simple. Which really sucks because I am one.

Ask yourself one question....What has been the nucleus of civilized society, time immortal? The family.

I grew up in the 70’s, small town Texas, and received very little women’s-lib indoctrination. I and my friends were raised to seek a decent man to build a life and family with. My brothers were raised to be decent men who would be expected to provide for a family. Our hopes/dreams were having a family of our own.

Since the late 70’s, early 80’s, WOMEN have been empowered to basically kill off the family. We’ve masculine-i zed our daughters and emasculated our sons. Unfettered access to birth control/abortion, no consequence sex, total women’s-lib immersion at school, and how many of us have also told our daughters that they don’t need a man to take care of them? They’ve been told since birth that they either need to be strong & self-reliant or a government dependent. You are the master of your own destiny! No man is required. Home and family?? Nah, you’ve got bigger & better things to do, little girl!

And, no decent men need apply anyway, ‘cause guess what? We WOMEN haven’t raised many! We’ve raised “baby-daddys”! The other side of the coin. Knock some girl up? Don’t worry son, she can take care of it herself! She’s your EQUAL and LET herself get pregnant! Or, when the WOMEN allow the progeny to survive to birth, and then it’s shut up and pay me for the next 18 years! The men have so little say so in anything that the decent ones rarely even try beyond paying child support. We’ve allowed the WOMEN to become all powerful and the men to become an unneeded, unwanted, worthless joke.

The guys who aren’t sought after by WOMEN, the “geeky”, “sensitive”, awkward, quiet, shy, powerless ones, escape into fantasy land. Exceedingly violent video games or drugs, etc. Their imaginations are the only place they can feel powerful and respected. Being heroes in glorious bravery has been humiliated out of them. Being FAMOUS is now what they strive for.

In my opinion, this disrespect of men and of life itself, is certainly a contributor to violence like this. Life is cheap now days. Guys are TAUGHT that they must deny the best of their nature (to provide & protect), and only give free rein to their baser nature (violence/seek sex) to compete for women and be respected by other men. It’s a wonder we don’t have more young men that do idiotic sh*t like this.

[Fire_on_High]

We gamers aren’t turning on gun owners, so I’ll thank you not to throw us under the bus to save yourself. Blame it on what it is...an evil nutjob.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Whites historically were not guilty of 'slaughtering Indians' except in isolated, small instances. Perthaps you have the wrong continent if you are thinking of genocide. Try Europe, Asia or Africa if you want to accuse somebody of 'slaughtering'.

The estimates of the number of American Indians killed goes into the millions, but that's beside the point of my post anyway.

My point was that this, and the atrocities you listed, occurred WITHOUT the influence of video games. Care to address THAT point?

[TwelveOfTwenty]

My history is better than your Internet forum skills. I suggest that, instead of reading the snippet your friend Post Toasties was replying to, try reading my post that he/she was replying to here and reply to the point I was actually making.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Sorry, but I disagree. I was mad at feminists for some of the reasons you listed, but then a male acquaintance donated sperm to an ex girlfriend so she could have a baby without a husband, and it sunk in. The cause of the problems men face is MEN.

Think about it. In the forty years since feminism took off, what have men done for their own equal rights or the rights of their sons? How many class action lawsuits have men started and pushed through to successful completion? If you can name any, you're ahead of me.

I could post a huge reply, but MRA Paul Elam spells out the problem here. Nothing is going to change for men until this changes.

[RitaOK]

I blame not the gun, thus the musing on a code, in the event you don’t want them under lock and key by law. Day dreaming out loud is getting risky around here.

[Post Toasties]

Such estimates are not based on facts in any way - just wishful thinking by the ignorant and irresponsible with an axe to grind since no record exists of any program of extermination of Indians, at least in within the current boundaries of the United States. I have been looking for cites for decades and have not found any that remotely come close to qualifying. Unless you can provide such verifiable specific documented records with numbersx, you will in have in effect conceded my point.

You may be conflating the numbers of Indians who died of diseases they had little or no resistance to that were imported by Europeans with the above, but that is another subject entirely, and not a wilful extermination of Indians by Europeans.