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Gunman had "altercation" with school staff day before masssacre
NBC News ^ | December 15, 2012 | Tracy Connor

Posted on 12/15/2012 10:03:16 AM PST by xsrdx

The gunman in the Newtown massacre had an "altercation" with four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School the day before he killed 20 children, six adults and himself there, Connecticut and federal officials told NBC News Saturday.

Three of the four staff members were killed Friday in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history. The fourth staff member was not at school that day and is being interviewed by federal and state investigators, NBC News’ Pete Williams said.

Two days before that, Adam Lanza, 20, went to a sporting goods store in Danbury, Conn., and tried to purchase a rifle, but was rebuffed because the state has a waiting period for gun sales, the officials said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 2012; adamlanza; banglist; lanza; newtown; sandyhook; schoolshooting; shooter
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To: Enterprise
They apparently know the motive, just have not made it public yet.

Police find "good evidence" on motive for Connecticut school massacre

21 posted on 12/15/2012 10:39:13 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: Jyotishi

We will see, but it appears that someone may have offended a narcissistic type. And it starts leading to other questions. Why was he at the school? Did the school officials tell him to stay away from the school because he had no business there? Is that what may have offended him? Might he have had an unusual interest in children? Did he reason that if he couldn’t have access to children then he would deny access to others to them also? Did he have a problem with female authority? He killed his mom and a female principal.


22 posted on 12/15/2012 10:41:39 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: justa-hairyape

Ping me if they come out with it in case I miss it.


23 posted on 12/15/2012 10:43:04 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: xsrdx; penelopesire; thouworm

“The gunman in the Newtown massacre had an “altercation” with four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School the day before...”

Was Adam Lanza under private care of school psychologist, Mary Sherlach?


24 posted on 12/15/2012 10:46:18 AM PST by maggief
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To: xsrdx

Got scared last night because my wife came home from work and said that maybe we (Americans) should start looking at some gun control legislation.

This shooting spooked her in a brand new way.

This is a southern bell who is pro-gun, pro-hunting, and pro-self defense in all of its forms. She’d be cool if I brought home claymores.

We had a great discussion and I convinced her that we should not surrender our Constitutional Rights because 0.01% of the population are certifiably insane and that any gun legislation at this point in our political reality would be un-wise, short-sighted, and probably dangerous.

What this incident shows is not that guns are too easy to get — it shows the horrible state of our mental health system in America at the private and public levels. THAT’s the real story here.


25 posted on 12/15/2012 10:49:46 AM PST by Noamie
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To: xsrdx
The Libs puzzled and puzzled till their puzzlers were sore.

They hired school psychologists, and then added more!

But all their Vain Actions were those of Blind Fools.

THE Only reason for failure: removing prayer and God from their schools!

27 posted on 12/15/2012 10:50:44 AM PST by Gasshog
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To: maggief
Just saw this on Drudge and can't post as a thread (A. Jones)

Real Or Fake? “I’m Going to Kill Myself on Friday and it Will Make the News”

28 posted on 12/15/2012 10:52:08 AM PST by thouworm (.)
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To: ronnie raygun

It has become nearly impossible to get violent psycopaths off the streets and into institutional treatment. Lawsuits by the left over decades have let loose these people who see mass murder as a good solution to their delusional state.

This kind of thing will continue until the asylum doors are opened again.

Is all of this an unintended consequence of liberal compassion for the mentally ill? I think not. Destruction of the society is their goal and allowing the violent insane to wander the streets and kill at will is a good way to hasten the chaos.


29 posted on 12/15/2012 10:52:35 AM PST by Wordkraft (Remember who the Collaborators are.)
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To: Noamie
This shooting spooked her in a brand new way.

Me too, frankly. This is the one they've been waiting for.

30 posted on 12/15/2012 10:53:56 AM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Noamie
This shooting spooked her in a brand new way.

She's not alone.

But I think we should be talking more about the illusory "benefit" - and real danger - of "gun free zones", and less about disarming the law abiding.

31 posted on 12/15/2012 10:55:59 AM PST by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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To: A_perfect_lady
but killing anyone after her makes no sense.""""....

I agree, makes no sense, unless it was jealousy.

He was most likely an out of control lazy BRAT.

32 posted on 12/15/2012 10:56:39 AM PST by annieokie
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To: A_perfect_lady

“You love those children more than ME!”


33 posted on 12/15/2012 10:57:04 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: xsrdx

If he had any type of mental issues (which he obviously did), shouldn’t his mother have kept her guns locked or locked up and HIDDEN THE KEY? She failed miserably in not keeping her guns locked up, given her sons mental instability. EVERYONE should keep their firearms locked up and HIDE THE KEY (and ONLY the person the guns are registered to knows where the key(s) are just in case they’re stolen if not for any other reason!!


34 posted on 12/15/2012 11:02:06 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: Noamie

Maybe if we lived in a more sane / civilized, stabilized, less fearful and moral society we wouldn’t be here. Maybe if people were allowed to follow the teachings of God, dicipline their children without the fear of CPS being called for the smallet indiscretion or drones or the NSA spying on them, were able to put nativity scenes on the courthouse lawns or display the 10 Commandments without liberal / atheist condemnation,, and teach right from wrong in the classrooms we wouldn’t be at this insane juncture in our history. Which the government all had a hand in some way or another.


35 posted on 12/15/2012 11:03:14 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: xsrdx

So. Have we had enough psychotropic-induced massacres yet?


36 posted on 12/15/2012 11:03:14 AM PST by GVnana
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To: Noamie

Maybe if we lived in a more sane / civilized, stabilized, less fearful and moral society we wouldn’t be here. Maybe if people were allowed to follow the teachings of God, dicipline their children without the fear of CPS being called for the smallet indiscretion or drones or the NSA spying on them, were able to put nativity scenes on the courthouse lawns or display the 10 Commandments without liberal / atheist condemnation,, and teach right from wrong in the classrooms we wouldn’t be at this insane juncture in our history. Which the government all had a hand in some way or another.


37 posted on 12/15/2012 11:03:25 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Noamie

Maybe if we lived in a more sane / civilized, stabilized, less fearful and moral society we wouldn’t be here. Maybe if people were allowed to follow the teachings of God, dicipline their children without the fear of CPS being called for the smallet indiscretion or drones or the NSA spying on them, were able to put nativity scenes on the courthouse lawns or display the 10 Commandments without liberal / atheist condemnation,, and teach right from wrong in the classrooms we wouldn’t be at this insane juncture in our history. Which the government all had a hand in some way or another.


38 posted on 12/15/2012 11:03:32 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: xsrdx

So. Have we had enough psychotropic-induced massacres yet?


39 posted on 12/15/2012 11:03:49 AM PST by GVnana
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To: thouworm; penelopesire

Whoa. The message, if real, was posted Wednesday night.

From the article above.

“The gunman in the Newtown massacre had an “altercation” with four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School the day before”

I wonder if there was a recent crisis intervention of some sort.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/14/justice/connecticut-school-shooting-psychologist/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Sherlach, 56, was an expert in psychology, having earned her undergraduate degree in that subject at SUNY Cortland and a master’s degree at Southern Connecticut State University.

Before becoming a school psychologist, she worked as a rehabilitation assistant at a psychiatric facility, at a group home for disabled adults and as a community mental health placement specialist.

Her experience in education included stints in the Redding, North Haven and New Haven public school systems before landing at Sandy Hook Elementary in 1994. During her time in Newtown, Sherlach kept busy as a member of numerous groups such as the district conflict resolution committee, safe school climate committee, crisis intervention team and student instructional team.


40 posted on 12/15/2012 11:05:17 AM PST by maggief
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