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Conn. shooter's dad: 'You can't get any more evil'
Yahoo News/ AP ^ | March 10th, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 03/10/2014 2:43:26 PM PDT by Third Person

NEW YORK (AP) — In his most extensive comments about the 2012 Connecticut school massacre, the father of gunman Adam Lanza describes his struggle to comprehend what his son did — an act that "couldn't get any more evil" — and how he now wishes that his son had never been born.

Peter Lanza also told The New Yorker magazine in a series of interviews last fall that he believes Adam would have killed him, too, if he had the chance. And he often contemplates what he could have done differently in his relationship with Adam, although he believes the killings couldn't have been predicted.

"Any variation on what I did and how my relationship was had to be good, because no outcome could be worse," Peter Lanza told the magazine in an article dated March 17. "You can't get any more evil. ... How much do I beat up on myself about the fact that he's my son? A lot."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: connecticut; crime; lanza
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To: fwdude

Not in the world of “no contest” divorce it doesn’t.


21 posted on 03/10/2014 3:15:35 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: fwdude

Didn’t the wife dump the father?

Filed BS to kick him out of the house?


22 posted on 03/10/2014 3:21:25 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: EDINVA

“If one hasn’t walked a mile in Mr/Mrs Lanza’s shoes maybe one had best not opine.”

No, no no.

On FreeRepublic, we grab the stones from Jesus and throw them. Our Pharasees are sinless and have never made a bad choice.


23 posted on 03/10/2014 3:25:19 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: wideawake

“Nurture cannot heal schizophrenia.”

Well, we don’t know all the causes of schizophrenia. So it could be that nurture can contribute to it, or alleviate it.


24 posted on 03/10/2014 3:30:22 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Third Person

Modern culture is producing monsters and it’s only going to get worse.


25 posted on 03/10/2014 3:30:46 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Third Person
Here is a simple solution: Anyone who looks like this should be immediately put away. How can anyone who sees this mug not think that something is seriously wrong with this "child"? We euthanize rabid dogs, after all.
26 posted on 03/10/2014 3:37:09 PM PDT by sagar
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To: sagar
How can anyone who sees this mug not think that something is seriously wrong with this "child"? We euthanize rabid dogs, after all.

Did he look like that all the time? How do you know that wasn't some sort of pose and they are using that pic to represent him?

27 posted on 03/10/2014 3:44:27 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: fwdude
Perhaps not divorcing Adam’s mom would have helped.

Fail! It's not a perfect world dude.......

As a side note, my parents divorced in 1955 and I've yet to kill anyone........

28 posted on 03/10/2014 3:50:50 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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To: Third Person; All

I hope someone of you will start a thread on this! (coudln’t find anything in FR search)

pick a link

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-msgr&p=Conn.%20police%20refuse%20to%20enforce%20new%20gun%20laws&type=


29 posted on 03/10/2014 3:51:33 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: fwdude
Perhaps, but it takes two to tango.

You can't tango without music.....

30 posted on 03/10/2014 3:51:56 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
I'm not into judgement. I can't, however, embrace this father's comments. Whatever he feels in his heart, the proper response would have been to say that you felt you must have failed at some crucial point along the way, and that you will never forgive yourself for not seeing this outcome long before, and to express your lifelong sorrow. Publicly stating that you wish your child had never been born is, to me, too self-serving, and too easy.

i agree... and maybe that he is able to have that point of view has something to do with his son's outcome... not that it is fully responsible, but that it contributed...

31 posted on 03/10/2014 3:52:22 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Hot Tabasco
You can't tango without music.....

i do not concur... :)

32 posted on 03/10/2014 3:53:18 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
we grab the stones from Jesus and throw them. Our Pharasees are sinless and have never made a bad choice.

Nicely stated, such is the nature of many of FR's self professed christians..........

33 posted on 03/10/2014 3:56:09 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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To: sagar
How can anyone who sees this mug not think that something is seriously wrong with this "child"?

really? look through any high school yearbook or middle school yearbook, and you will find many strange, dorky, nerdy, silly pics of adolescent boys and girls... pics that make us cringe when we look back on that awkward stage between youth and adult...

34 posted on 03/10/2014 3:57:36 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: raybbr

Aaw poor child was misrepresented by that photo. You talk like those defending St. Trayvon.


35 posted on 03/10/2014 3:58:29 PM PDT by sagar
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To: fwdude

Yes, it does. And it doesn’t appear that he was that involved in his son’s life after the divorce, as the whole interview is a bunch of speculation. I still find it odd that people keep quoting 26 as the number of people murdered and no one mentions the mom at all in their tally.


36 posted on 03/10/2014 4:00:29 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: sagar
Aaw poor child was misrepresented by that photo. You talk like those defending St. Trayvon.

You come across as an ass. Do you really think you can divine persons mental state from one picture. As in: "How can anyone who sees this mug not think that something is seriously wrong with this "child"?"

Again, how do you know that wasn't a posed shot?

BTW, I am not defending Lanza but to make a statement like you made is the height of lunacy.

37 posted on 03/10/2014 4:02:23 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: raybbr; sagar

I’d be interested in seeing Sagar’s DMV photo.

Wonder if it would pass his own test.


38 posted on 03/10/2014 4:07:05 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: latina4dubya
i do not concur... :)

Maybe you can but I can't......as a side note, I can't salsa either even tho I took lessons..... :)

39 posted on 03/10/2014 4:09:31 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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To: fwdude

So any child that has divorced parents will go out and murder kids? C’mon. Don’t make excuses. The kid was a sick monster.


40 posted on 03/10/2014 4:13:58 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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