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Newtown gunman's dad opens up in magazine article
SeattlePI ^ | 3-10-14 | Andrew Solomon

Posted on 03/10/2014 11:27:20 AM PDT by smokingfrog

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."

He said he hadn't seen his son in two years when Adam killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in December 2012.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: banglist; lanza; massshooting; newyorker; sandyhook
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To: Resolute Conservative

60%+ of divorces are filed by the female.

In cases where the woman has a four+ year degree, the proportion of divorces filed by the woman is even higher than that.

Women brought this on themselves.


21 posted on 03/10/2014 12:29:21 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: smokingfrog
Conspiracy theory: Certain people in control now are willing to do anything to outlaw guns. 1)They comb the CDC database for violent, mentally disturbed people who have answered yes to having access to guns. 2)They alter patients medications to enhance the violence. 3)Do this with 4 or 5 people across the US and see if one or more goes postal. 4)If one goes berserk, have teams ready to move in to ‘help’ the local and state anti gun folks push for bans. 5) Take control of the cleanup. Autopsy shows nothing in the system. Sandy Hook attack didn't feature assault rifles but that is the excuse used for banning them. The more dead the greater the impact. One child worth 10 adults! Flame away!
22 posted on 03/10/2014 12:34:54 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: silverleaf

Indeed... Adam Lanza was a shake down murderer. no wonder he is pusthumpusly hired by liberals for the murder to shake guns away from us. He certainly targeted the target for being easy.


23 posted on 03/10/2014 12:35:16 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: silverleaf

*posthumously


24 posted on 03/10/2014 12:36:16 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: smokingfrog

I don’t know if the fathers absence was an issue or not.
What I do know is that the father should never have given those interviews. Extremely poor form to speak about your dead son that way. Keep your big stupid mouth shut and pray for your son and his victims. The whole thing was self serving IMHO.


25 posted on 03/10/2014 12:50:59 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: smokingfrog

IBTFIWAFFTNH.

In before the first “It Was A False Flag That Never Happened”.


26 posted on 03/10/2014 1:32:10 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Beowulf9

I don’t think that was the problem.


27 posted on 03/10/2014 1:51:35 PM PDT by Irish Rose (Will work for chocolate.)
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To: smokingfrog

did the phony crisis actors like Robbie Parker join dad for a reunion?


28 posted on 03/10/2014 1:58:38 PM PDT by AdamBomb
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To: smokingfrog
phony crisis actors found alive....alive and well


29 posted on 03/10/2014 2:01:33 PM PDT by AdamBomb
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To: ArtDodger

“Sandy Hook attack didn’t feature assault rifles but that is the excuse used for banning them.”

Yes, it did, that was the only weapon used on the victims.


30 posted on 03/10/2014 2:03:14 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: AdamBomb

Just putting the names of dead children on pictures of different living children doesn’t make it so. However, it does make you look crazy, if that was what you were going for.


31 posted on 03/10/2014 2:05:00 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Hildy

When you look at pictures of Adam Lanza, you know there was something really wrong with him that was not caused by an absent father or SSRIs or psychiatrists. Even his skull was misshaped. He must have had some kind of inborn problem. People can be born with birth defects in the heart or stomach or kidney, so no doubt they can be born with defects in the brain as well.


32 posted on 03/10/2014 2:14:39 PM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: Boogieman

enlighten yourself:
Top Ten Reasons Sandy Hook was an elaborate hoax.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/01/07/top-ten-reasons-sandy-hook-was-an-elaborate-hoax/


33 posted on 03/10/2014 2:16:23 PM PDT by AdamBomb
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To: basil

Personally, I think we would be a lot better off without most psychiatrists……...


It’s not like psychiatry is a science. They effectively proved that when they took homosexuality out of the DSM for no discernable scientific reason.


34 posted on 03/10/2014 2:16:32 PM PDT by Peet (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: AdamBomb

Enlighten myself?

Sorry, but I’m not some Johnny Come Lately who needs to get his information from nutjob conspiracy articles. All the theories have been posted here, and debunked, long, long ago.


35 posted on 03/10/2014 2:41:14 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: smokingfrog

“Magazine” article?

Yeah, I think I would have chosen different words .


36 posted on 03/10/2014 2:47:44 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Boogieman
I remember that. Talk about surreal.. Video showing the trooper opening the trunk of the shooter's car and pulling out the Bushmaster. The next day, we were told the Bushmaster was used in the shootings and was found inside the school....
37 posted on 03/10/2014 3:55:55 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: ArtDodger

There was no Bushmaster in that video. If you think that there was, then you either didn’t watch the video very closely, or you don’t know what a Bushmaster looks like.


38 posted on 03/10/2014 4:00:27 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Sigh.....


39 posted on 03/10/2014 4:06:58 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: ArtDodger

Seriously, do you think Bushmasters eject shotgun shells? Or did you just not catch that on the video?


40 posted on 03/10/2014 4:42:19 PM PDT by Boogieman
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