[A_perfect_lady]

I suggest also, that this manchild was just mad at his mother.

Definite possibility, but killing anyone after her makes no sense. She wouldn't be around to suffer for what he did. Frankly, if she were alive, knowing he murdered 20 children to get even with her, that would be the most vicious form of retribution I can imagine for a mother. But she isn't. So... it's still just very weird.

[annieokie]

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.

[arthurus]

“You love those children more than ME!”

[robowombat]

This case sounds a bit like the State department shooter of some 30 plus year's ago. Hard to imagine but back then one could carry a rifle (broken down) into the State Department and go to the 7th floor where the Sec State and other heavy hitters have their offices and assemble the rifle in a restroom and then go and confront and shoot to death the shooters mother > This woman worked in an office just down the hall from Sec. Shultz suite and he was in a meeting when the shooting and then suicide of the shooter took place. Guy about like this one. Dropout, head case, screwup, only his mother would tolerate him. Finally pushed her to where she told him to make an effort to get a job or get out. He shoots the only person in the world who loves him death and then commits suicide. He could just have easily gone on a shooting rampage and taken out a flock of State department types. Shultz was not a happy man both over the brutal death of a woman he knew and liked and such a gross security breach. State locked things down considerably after that. This was years after the Mahdi's Weatherman buddy Bill arranged to have the State Department struck by a really powerful bomb.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

To #20. Lanza’s killing his mother and then the teachers/administrators and school children makes a lot of sense to a damaged mind.

His mother was the prime target, but then he “projected” his hatred for her onto anyone who worked with her or were in her classes (or any classes at the school). Thus he kept “killing” his mother eventhough they were totally innocent and not socially connected to her.

Only after he did his killing did Lanza realize that he was the last living link to his mother so he had to kill himself in order to sever that emotional/mental link.

The psychological term is “projection” meaning projecting one’s own fears, hates, likes onto others who may have been close, rejected them, were in the proximity of those people, or who had a direct connection to them.

Paranoid schizophrenics do this all the time, even if the people, events, and perceived threats, insults, turn-downs never happened in reality.

[Engedi]

I blame the Mom in some of this; she had guns at home, taught him how to shoot, etc. Knowing he had mental disorder, was a Goth, etc. She was selfish. She should have not had guns in the house. She knew her son was unstable. Yes, she had a right to own and use guns, but if I knew my kid had some issues, I WOULD not have any guns in the housen or at least none that he would know about.

I surmise, looking at this Kid that he was probably bullied a lot, mad fun of, etc. I surmise that he was spoiled.