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Adam Lanza: A 'Quiet, Odd' Loner Living On The Fringes
Hartford Courant ^ | 12/15/12 | JOSH KOVNER and EDMUND H. MAHONY,

Posted on 12/16/2012 6:40:36 AM PST by jimbo123

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Adam Lanza had lived with his mother in the 4,000-square-foot, $700,000 house. His parents were divorced in 2009.

He had two bedrooms that were clean and orderly when law officers swept into the house after the shootings Friday morning. Lanza apparently lived in one of the rooms and kept his computer gear and other items in the other one, the sources said. Law officers found evidence that Adam Lanza played graphically violent video games, the sources said.

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To: kjo

Let’s see. We have psychotic and mentally disturbed youth who have been socially marginalized, either through self-marginalization or through the emasculination of white males by society. Then, you couple that with a decadent culture similar to ancient Rome where sexuality and violence are glamorized. What’s not to understand here?


21 posted on 12/16/2012 7:40:08 AM PST by NotTallTex
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To: ronnie raygun

Well well well just look what I found!

Point being?


22 posted on 12/16/2012 7:42:47 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: rintense

It’s beginning to seem to me as if he might have carried a grudge against the school and the administrators there. Whether than spins off of his own experiences at the school or somehow involves his mother, I can’t say. Maybe he blamed them for pathologizing him, for labeling him as having a psychiatric disorder. He turned up there in first grade. He killed the psychologists, the youngest kids and their teachers. Maybe it wasn’t random.


23 posted on 12/16/2012 7:44:23 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Captain7seas

I have 2 neighbors and both have 3 kids and each one has one in grammar school.Each of those grammar school kids is on some type of drug because they “Act Up” in school.
Same ole crap.kids act normal aka act up staff and parent don’t know how to handle it so they drug the kid.
IMOP the drugs are the root.Give them open access to fire arms desensitize them with violent vids and beware.


24 posted on 12/16/2012 7:47:45 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: RegulatorCountry

Oh I don’t believe it was random at all. The connection between the school and Adam may be as simple as Adam blaming the school for his life/social issues. Somewhere along the way, the lines between reality and fantasy (video games) disappeared. Fueled by festering anger and no other outlet, he made fantasy become reality.


25 posted on 12/16/2012 7:48:12 AM PST by rintense
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To: A CA Guy

This sick freak held a grudge ALL THE WAY BACK TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. His parents knew they were raising a freak. Just like the Colombine shooters’s parents.

So the father split and washed his hands of his son by sending hefty alimony checks to his ex wife and giving her the big house?

And the mom dealt with him by letting him spend all his time alone in his room playing video games and god knows what else?


26 posted on 12/16/2012 7:48:35 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123
BINGO,you win the prize..especially where they father is concerned.
27 posted on 12/16/2012 7:52:12 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: rintense

The Mother knowing her child very well, taught him to shoot proficiently. Knowing the history of kids like hers, they are a ticking time bomn, full of residual anger.

I do blame the Mother. I want to know why Adam and his brother Ryan became estranged?


28 posted on 12/16/2012 8:10:10 AM PST by Engedi
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To: t1b8zs
The parents always know!






29 posted on 12/16/2012 8:11:27 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: Captain7seas
You think that they may have found evidence that he was taking anti-depressant drugs that clearly state “Homicidal tendencies” as a side effect!!!

Friend and neighbor's sister took out her celebrity comic husband in a very well known case. Shot him to death while in bed.

The drug companies paid out a huge settlement to keep the family quiet.

Apparently there is enough of a margin selling Prozac and the like that you can afford a multiple slaying now and then.

30 posted on 12/16/2012 8:16:13 AM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: jimbo123

“Adam Lanza had lived with his mother in the 4,000-square-foot, $700,000 house. His parents were divorced in 2009.”

Paid for by dad (now divorced), along with $240k per year alimony. Dad’s quite a guy - a corporate VP at General Electric. Worked real hard to get there - no doubt super-long hours and lots of travel. Oh the kid...let others deal with him...drugs should work.

I do wonder if he thinks it was worth it all now.


31 posted on 12/16/2012 8:24:01 AM PST by BobL (Did you know that the Chinese now buy close to twice as many new cars as Americans each year?)
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To: Montanabound
I don’t remember a news story where the media got so much wrong

Isn't that the truth! I've avoided reading much of the coverage because so much of is is downright wrong.

32 posted on 12/16/2012 8:24:54 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: jimbo123

Spent most of his time jerking off to porn, playing violent videos and being upset the world didn’t get him...

Great touch that the mom decided to train this deficient child to become proficient with guns. Way to go mom...


33 posted on 12/16/2012 8:26:26 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Montanabound

On Friday when the story broke there were Freepers just clamoring for the name of the shooter to be released. Like RIGHT NOW. Some were implying that the media was trying to hide something by holding back the name.

This is a perfect example of what happens when you release stuff without vetting it. The media rushes to get information out (Trust me, the media wants to get a name out ASAP. Especially in this case, whether the name was John Smith, D’a’Quisha Washington, or Mohammed Abdul Sayeed).

In the rush to get stuff out, so far just about every initial report has turned out to be wrong.


34 posted on 12/16/2012 8:26:52 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Engedi

I bet the police and criminal psychiatrists are building a profile based on Ryan’s testimony right now.


35 posted on 12/16/2012 8:27:20 AM PST by rintense
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To: t1b8zs

“Give them open access to fire arms desensitize them with violent vids and beware”

That just gelled an interesting observation from the past.

My now grown kids were heavy into the first person shooter games when they were young.

After 9/11 I started them on .22’s and we’d spend weekends blowing through bricks of ammo plinking at crap we bought at yard sales.

After that they lost interest in the violent games.


36 posted on 12/16/2012 8:27:32 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: rintense
Adam was a ticking time bomb

"Ticking" - Elton John

37 posted on 12/16/2012 8:29:24 AM PST by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: rovenstinez

Capt. 7 Seas I have been screaming about these prescription anti
depressants since this insanity started!!! This is the ONE constant in
EVERY ONE of these young shooters!!!! THIS IS the problem PARENTS
need to WAKE UP!!! Get your kids off these drugs!!!!


38 posted on 12/16/2012 8:29:59 AM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: jimbo123

Not only the parents... The school staff knows, their shrinks know, in Loughner’s case the Sheriff had had contact with him, and we might as well throw in ol’ “workplace violence” Hassan, the Army knew he was a Muzzie freak.

PC contributed to the deaths of all these nutjobs victims.


39 posted on 12/16/2012 8:30:28 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Texas Fossil

Please. Can we not blame EVERYTHING on Obama? We’re not Democrats (who reflectively blamed Bush for everything). The media is the media. They’ve always been this way. They were this way before Obama showed up, and will be this way long after he’s gone.


40 posted on 12/16/2012 8:31:33 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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