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The Truth About Mass Shootings and Gun Control
Commentary ^ | February 2013 | Benjamin Domenech

Posted on 02/21/2013 9:29:26 PM PST by neverdem

When tragedy strikes on a national scale, our initial reactions have a commonality to them: We recoil in shock and are overcome with sorrow. But then, as anger and frustration set in, we begin to divide, to blame the things we have always blamed for the evils around us. We insist that something must be done, steps must be taken, laws must be passed.

Adam Lanza, an honors student with no criminal record, murdered his mother, stole four of her guns, and—for reasons we may never know—decided to rob the world of the lives of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It was a murder of unarmed innocents on a scale with few precedents in American history, the second deadliest school shooting in history, and the worst massacre in an elementary school since the 1927 bombings at the Bath School in Michigan...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; massshootings; secondamendment
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To: Doc Savage

All good questions. We will probably never know the answers but I hope we do someday.


21 posted on 02/22/2013 1:59:01 PM PST by MarMema
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To: neverdem
"That's not so. Search the given text, not the title. Use quotation marks."

That returned a link to the two-paragraph "abstract" and the following.

"This article is available for purchase to subscribers and for individual purchase"

Commentary magazine is alright, though. I subscribed to it once a long time ago.


22 posted on 02/22/2013 3:59:16 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: Doc Savage

>>Why an elementary school he and his mother had NO connection with? Why not a high school he may have attended where he could blast all those bullies that teased him???

I saw a report in the last week or so that there is a video from the high school that shows Lanza driving up to it and turning around for the elementary school. There was a cop there for some event/reason.


23 posted on 02/22/2013 4:33:20 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: neverdem

Thanks for the ping!


24 posted on 02/22/2013 7:46:27 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Cicero

> “In any case, he was clearly nuts, and determined to kill a lot of innocent people and make people suffer just because he could. Probably to make a name for himself before committing suicide.” <<

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He was, like ALL of the other recent mass murderers, under the influence of antidepressants that are known to cause violent thoughts. This is the core of the problem: psychology/psychiatry prescribing drugs to cure spiritual illnesses is the proximate cause of mass murder.


25 posted on 02/22/2013 8:36:20 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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