The release of the report on Adam Lanza inexplicably finds that there is no answer to the question of why he committed mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The media has jumped on board with this line of thought, scratching their heads like the fucking apes they are in wonder at just where things went wrong when it is so completely obvious.
Adam Lanza is a textbook example of what happens when the adolescent power fantasy perpetuated by the Gun Cult and conservatives in general goes very, very dark.
We start with his mother, a "live free or die type" who sought no mental health help for her son. She brought him up in an environment that encouraged anti-government and anti-social behavior, allowing him to stay locked in his room with black garbage bags on the windows and communicated to him only via email. She allowed him access to guns despite the fact that he wrote a book in 5th grade about children being slaughtered and a son shooting his mother in the head. In fact, she was planning on buying him a gun for Christmas last year! Add in the obsession with violent video games and the fact that he was bullied and one can see the perfect cocktail for spree shooting mixed all too well.
There may not have been a criminal motive in the strictest of terms found in this case but it's very clear why it happened. Nancy Lanza was a horrible parent who bought into the myths of the Gun Cult and modern day conservatism. Guns are our God given right and mental health problems should just be ignored and repressed as all that business is just a bunch of liberal, touchy feely nonsense. Young men should be allowed to stomp down the hallway, lock themselves in their room and be rebellious towards all authority!!
It completely astounds me just how fucking stupid Nancy Lanza was in all of this. How many more parents are there like her out there? What kind of a parent doesn't notice the red flag of her son keeping a ledger on all the mass shootings in America? And worshiping Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Well, as long as her 2nd amendment rights were protected and our country was saved from the gun grabbers. At least she understood what "infringed" meant!
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Playing violent video games in and of itself is no more dangerous than watching Quentin Tarantino movies. Both depict violence and death. As a movie fan, you may disregard any link, but plenty of people believe violent TV and movies cause children to become inured to violence, just as raunchy porn may inure them to sex, especially unsafe sex practices.
A fascination with guns is also no more an indicator of murderous intent than a fascination with fighter planes, or the Manhattan project, or tanks, or really fast cars. All can be used to kill lots of people.
Distrust of big government is no more an indicator of murderous intent than distrust of big corporations. And who trusts the DEA, the NSA or the Warren Commission?
Adam Lanza was 20 years old, legally an adult. Do you think it's right for his mom to be looking around on his computer to see what he's doing? Unless he had giant posters of Klebold on his wall and talked about how much he admired the Columbine killers and wanted to emulate them, it's not reasonable to expect Ms. Lanza to know about that and call the cops on her own kid.
Obviously, Nancy Lanza missed important signs that her son was losing it. But you can see why: he was interested in many of the same things she was, only moreso. She was probably proud of him, glad that he was so much like her.
Unless she actually encouraged him to kill (which there's no evidence), you can't blame Nancy Lanza for her son going on a murderous rampage any more than you can blame Martin Scorsese for John Hinckley's assassination attempt on President Reagan.
There is, however, one caveat in what I'm saying. If Nancy Lanza was in fact a survivalist (which some have denied), I think that's what may have tipped her son over the edge. Because the core of the urban survivalist creed is selfishness. They collect all those guns not only to protect themselves, but to be able to take from others. Because you won't be able to stockpile enough food to last more than a couple of months. After that, you're going to use your guns to steal food from other people. That means you've got to be willing to kill innocent people to get it. Once you've made that intellectual leap, your soul is lost.
Most of us have never even considered that, except through fiction like The Walking Dead or Revolution. We might have to make that decision should calamity arise, but we're just glad we don't have to yet.
If Adam Lanza was brought up thinking like that, then that's on Nancy Lanza. But if she thought that way herself, she was incapable of reading the signs and seeing how Adam would end up.
Anyway, real survivalists know that you've got to live out in the boondocks of Idaho, away from everyone else, on enough land so that you can grow your own food to support your family and maintain a sustainable pre-industrial lifestyle. Suburban survivalists are just fools who are going to get themselves killed because guns are the first thing the mob is going to take from you: you have to sleep sometime...
So N just shot down your whole ridiculous so-called argument.
So-called because it has just as much basis in actual reality as if you were to say that Lanza did Sandy Hook because flying space monkeys infected his brain and made him do it.
When an argument has no basis in fact and lack substantiation it quits being an actual argument and becomes delusion.
Because the core of the urban survivalist creed is selfishness. They collect all those guns not only to protect themselves, but to be able to take from others.
What orifice did you extract this factoid from? Certainly there are some that might fit this description, but to claim that is the core belief of all is as patently fucking stupid as claiming that all urban Democrats hope to mooch off others for cradle-to-grave security without having to work.
Because you won't be able to stockpile enough food to last more than a couple of months.
Talk to any devout Mormon, you nitwit. They're not the only ones, either. It's not that fucking hard. REALLY. Sometimes you're thoughtful, but on this subject, you're like an Exorcist version of a Betsy Wetsy doll, spinning your head in a 360 and spewing the green bile of venomous, thoughtless prejudice in all directions.
After that, you're going to use your guns to steal food from other people. That means you've got to be willing to kill innocent people to get it.
Nice case of projection you've got going on there. I'm sure as fuck happy you don't have a CCL, and I hope that unlike some prominent anti-gunners, you actually do keep yourself disarmed because frankly, you scare me.
The really fucked up part of it is, as GuardDuck pointed out, you actually make more sense than Markadelphia, who's so far out in left field, he can't even see the stadium from where he stands.
Poor M - can't even get his stupid past his blogmate let alone anyone else.
The release of the report on Adam Lanza inexplicably…
All hail Markadelphia, who can read minds and explain the inexplicable!
Mark's brain is obviously bigger than ours.
M is one of the enlightened you know.
A more reasoned assessment can be found here, which unlike Markadelphia's link, actually links to useful information such as the actual report.
As might be expected, it says things "not quite in line" with Markadelphia's characterization. For one thing, he wasn't "obsessed" with violent video games, no more than any other teenage boy is, and he played a lot of non-violent games, too. Maybe it was his documented playing of "Dance, Dance Revolution" for hours at a time in his last months that pushed him over the edge?
Based on the list of games in the actual, you know, report, I can't identify which one involves shotting kids in a school. Does anybody here know? The report makes no mention of such a thing. I suspect, but don't know, that the author of Markadelphia's linked sensationalist article is confused with this piece of shit" that was produced by a nitwit of almost Markadelphian proportions, "to be critical of the lack of regulation that has emerged in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre."
In spite of his mental problems, nobody thought Adam Lanza had violent tendencies, including the mental health professionals that saw him.
Nor was he on any anti-depressants, despite Markadelphia's repeated parrot-like squawking about how that would be a factor. Actually, I would say Markadelphia has an almost Church of Scientology-like phobic tic about drugs that have benefited many millions of people. Will we hear an apology? I figure that's about as likely as Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey admitting they're wrong about their anti-vaccination crusade. Vaccines do far more good than harm, just like anti-depressants. Maybe we'll get a grudging admission that in this one case he was wrong, but he'll be shrieking the same old song soon enough. Markadelphia's apparently never wrong enough to actually remember being wrong.
My explanation? Some people are just fucking evil, and some of the most evil are extremely good at concealing just how evil they are. Adam Lanza withdrew almost completely from his mother in the 3 months before Sandy Hook, communicating only through email. Maybe in some states that's enough to get someone committed, but I doubt it. Since he gave no indication of violent tendencies to anyone, and certainly didn't make any threats, just what does Markadelphia think the police and courts could do? Commit him on grounds of morbid weirdness? Yeah, right, that'd fly. Maybe a psychiatric exam would've uncovered something, but I highly doubt it. Adam Lanza would do what he'd apparently done for a long time: lie.
I have strong doubts that anything legal would've stopped him. With the exception of someone in the school who was also armed. That might've stopped him, though rather less likely if it was only a uniformed "school resource officer" who could be identified and taken out first.
And contrary to Marakdelphia's daft assertion that the "Gun Culture" and conservatism was responsible, a sick evil little shit was responsible. And if his loving mother didn't spot the signs (that no one else did, either), well, tragically, she wouldn't be the first, and won't be the last. Witness the mothers of thugs shot and killed while committing armed robbery that go on TV protesting that their kid was a good boy, and didn't deserve to be shot, and that "justice" should be brought against the "vigilante" or "racist cop" that "murdered" their precious little angel. I guess it's hard for some parents to recognize that that they've raised a monster even when they see the security tape of them in action. And these mothers and their thug offspring are hardly ever products of the "Gun Culture" promoted by the NRA and many other groups, nor are they conservative voters. I suspect they would be the "urban survivalists" that Nikto freaks out about, though, as they're already human predators.
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