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“It really was like he was lost in one of his own sick games. That’s what we heard. That he learned something from his game that you learn in (police) school, about how if you’re moving from room to room — the way he was in that school — you have to reload before you get to the next room. Maybe he has a 30-round magazine clip, and he’s only used half of it. But he’s willing to dump 15 rounds and have a new clip before he arrives in the next room.”Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... z2NxZNATVW" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Makes it very clear that 30 round magazines were not an advantage to him. Hence the furor over them is even more useless. The sad thing here is we see just how much being the most defenseless prey made him choose children. It is also clear his planning was so methodical that he would have found a way to do this even if there had been no guns involved. He was that determined. Violent video games may not adversely affect normal people, but the abnormal among us can be. He was.

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Here is a poll asking if teachers should be allowed to carry. It is currently going against:

http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/201 ... guns.html/

Fox reporting Adam Lanza's mother was in the process of arranging to have him committed:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/18/fe ... z2FRjNs1rW

Media now shifting attention from assault weapons to going after concealed carry:

http://news.yahoo.com/carry-loaded-gun- ... 26857.html

This poor mom outlines just how terrifying it can be to try to parent a mentally ill child who is dangerous. She has tried to help her child, but there is precious little she can do. Our lawmakers need to read this before they are so quick to attack gun owners:

http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/ ... kable.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bloomberg is urging the President to bypass the elected representatives of our nation and just do it his way:

"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Obama could use executive powers to enforce existing gun laws, as well as throw his weight behind legislation like Feinstein's.
"It's time for the president, I think, to stand up and lead and tell this country what we should do — not go to Congress and say, 'What do you guys want to do?'" Bloomberg said."

And notice the picture that is featured on this article is a concealed carry class. Like concealed carry had anything to do with this tragedy

http://news.yahoo.com/democratic-senato ... itics.html

Reportedly Adam Lanza stopped murdering children and shot himself in the head as soon as he heard the police coming. They were coming with guns. A means of stopping him. This is typical of such people. They want killing fields and when a stronger opposition shows up, they cave. I blame the entities and people who believe keeping our teachers and schools disarmed and unable to defend our children is somehow a better plan.

It is shocking to see how fast and how effectively the media has jumped on a wrenching tragedy of epic proportions not to focus attention on untreated or unrecognized dangerous individuals or inadequate school security, but to get their own agenda on gun control pushed to the front of everyone's mind. When was the last time you saw a story where a drunk or deranged person plowed through a bunch of innocent people with his car and the news focused on which kind of car it was, how fast it could go, how big was the motor? Let's talk about banning any car that will go faster than peddling speed... I am hearing nothing on the news that is balanced at all.

Why are we not discussing the fact this kid simply shot the glass out of a door and walked right into that school where not one armed person was present who could stop him? Maybe the doors to each classroom should have been locked as well as the exterior doors. Today, I read a kid in Oklahoma was arrested because he had been trying to recruit classmates to help him murder his classmates at school. I sure hope every school in this country is putting together a better plan today than they had yesterday starting with the doors and having armed protection.

Good points. The most recent things I am reading is reports from people who knew him that there was obvious mental issues and the mom was considered to be a very "rigid" person. Whatever that means. It is amazing how much misinformation has been rampant from the start of this. I saw initial reports that a neighbor said Adam had Aspergers. Now it may be some other mental difficulty. The label has little value. The actions define him as psychotic however he got there. The possibility of pharmacology being a possible trigger is one I hope is brought to light if it exists. The message these days is whatever is wrong with you, just take a pill and your problems are solved. If not, then you obviously need more pills. The reality is sometimes psychiatric medication helps and sometimes it just becomes another problem.

Scott in Houston wrote:

baldeagle wrote:

TexasGal wrote:I just watched Obama's speech. He listed other mass shootings and said we must do something to change this regardless of the politics. He reached up to his eye several times to wipe away a tear. The thing I noticed was his eyes were not red. His voice was steady. His facial muscles were not twitching in an effort not to cry. The "tears" were not left to run far enough to be visible on camera. I compared that to the speech I saw him give his team after his re-election. The tears were running, and he struggled to manage his composure. He voice broke and he had to pause. I am saddened to realize he was more visibly moved when he thanked his re-election team than he was to discuss the deaths of so many children. Oh yeah, he will be using this to every possible advantage not to make schools more secure, but to disarm the law abiding. He well knows criminals and the psychotic will not care about any new laws.

I despise Obama. Can't stand him. Hate what he's doing to my country. I just viewed his speech, and I disagree with you. I think it did affect him. I think he was visibly upset and had to gather his composure more than once before continuing.

I agree w/ baldeagle here... it definitely affected him. His speech was a good one too... and like baldeagle, I despise him as well, so this is impartial.

My fear is that it definitely moved him... which will move him the wrong way and we'll see an all-out assault on our liberty very soon.

I apologize for my comments after watching his speech again. I do agree he was moved and there were tears. I am not accusing him of not caring at all. He was, however, more visibly moved in the other speech I described. With retrospect, I can imagine he felt it more important to control himself for this speech. Like so many of us, I am having a hard time grasping the terrible nature of all this. I just don't want it to be used to forward a political agenda that doesn't really make anyone safer. It definitely will galvanize him to try to increase gun laws whether they make sense or not.

For comparison, here is a youtube vid of his speech to his campaign team starting at about 3.30 minutes in the recording:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYClIACLMMY

I'm not a psychiatrist, but the one interviewed on one station speculated the reason was those kids were "her" class and this kid had a lot of hate aimed at his mother. He was effectively destroying her over and over again in his mind. In the grips of psychosis, a person simply is incapable of seeing his/her actions in a normal way. One of the characteristics of Aspergers is a difficulty with empathy. It is empathy that brings most of us to such a sense of horror at something terrible happening to someone else.

Yes. There were multiple laws broken in this. Yet, we will pass some more laws as if that will change the mental states of troubled persons and somehow make them less able to do harm. If he had not gotten access to those guns, I have no doubt we would still have a tragedy. He may have used other guns or other means, but he obviously had a lot of psychotic fury to vent using something.

The guns used have been confirmed to have been legally purchased and registered to the shooter's mother. I have not heard if he also got the vest from her house. Were they in a safe and he got the combination or were they not secured? I am sure this will be the subject of further discussion in the days ahead. One report was given of a former neighbor who said Adam had Asperger's and OCD. She also reported the mom was a good mom, but very restrictive and Adam was sometimes rebellious against that.

Massad Ayoob discussed the solution Israel enacted to defend against shooters in schools:

"Israel began the program of armed citizen guards in the schools after the Maalot massacre in the 1970s, when a large number of children were slain in a terrorist incident. The volunteer parents work in plain clothes, armed with concealed semi-automatic pistols, and are trained by Israel's home guard. It is significant that in the more than a quarter century between Maalot and the incident mentioned above when the citizen guards shot down the terrorist in the school in 2002, not a single child was murdered in an Israeli school!"

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob81.html