Mother shared her gun obsession with school shooter Adam Lanza

She created a monster.

Adam Lanza’s mother taught her son how to become a killing machine who used what he learned from her about firing guns to commit one of the worst massacres in American history at a Connecticut elementary school.

Weapon-loving Nancy Lanza regularly took her awkward loner-son Adam to shooting ranges, where the painfully shy boy — who suffered from the autism-related Asperger’s syndrome — blasted away targets using his mom’s small arsenal of guns.

“She’d take them to the range a lot . . . Nancy was an enthusiast — so much so that she wanted to pass it on to her kids,” said her former landscaper and occasional drinking buddy Dan Holmes.


FATAL ATTRACTION: Nancy Lanza became obsessed with guns after her 2009 divorce and shared the hobby with her disturbed son, friends say.
“Whenever I finished work and went inside to chitchat, she spoke often about her fascination with firearms. Nancy had an extensive gun collection, and she was really quite proud of it.”

Nancy’s gun training took a tragic turn Friday when Adam grabbed her weapons and shot her dead in her Newtown, Conn., home.

He then took one of her handguns and two powerful rifles she owned to the nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 students, six adults and, finally, himself.

Lanza’s mom cherished her guns, which she began buying after she divorced her husband in 2009, according to a report.

I read in the Daily Mail last night that she was a "doomsday prepper" so we now know where this is going.

Here's the article.

You know it had to go here...........the left only has one talking point regarding weapons.

"Guns are evil. Get rid of them."

But as Rep. Gohmert said, if the principal of the school had had a gun, those precious kids would still be alive.

Maybe one day some sanity will return on such matters.

She loved her guns more than she loved her son, her own life, her community. Blame the mother. Oh. She's dead?

Blame the guns.

I have read where she pulled him out of school and was homeschooling him because of issues with the behavior plan. This was a lost and broken young adult. I've read his aunt said that he did not handle the divorce well at all. He was sick and fell through the cracks.

How long will it take to face the real issue in these mass shootings?

I don't know this family. I know nothing about the parents' marriage. I have read where the divorce was very difficult for the young man.

This is where I believe the parents failed their son.

They brought him into this world. And for whatever reason he was a sick young man. As such he probably needed more parental care and love than the average child.

The child did not ask to be born. Nor did he ask to be ill.

But, his parents let him down by not remaining married. I know that is not a popular thing to say. But he needed both of his parents. They owed it to him to stay together for his well-being. I'm not saying it would have been easy. I'm saying it would have been the right thing to do.

Would it have prevented what happened to the mother, the teachers, the principle and school psychologist, the innocent children? I don't know.

But it may have helped their son. They owed it to him.

I say all of the above because I am a parent. And if this happened in my family I would spend the rest of my life blaming myself that I didn't do everything I could for my child.

I would feel guilty, forever.

I feel badly for the father because the rest of his days will be very difficult. He needs prayers. As does his remaining son.

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I don't know this family. I know nothing about the parents' marriage. I have read where the divorce was very difficult for the young man.

This is where I believe the parents failed their son.

They brought him into this world. And for whatever reason he was a sick young man. As such he probably needed more parental care and love than the average child.

The child did not ask to be born. Nor did he ask to be ill.

But, his parents let him down by not remaining married. I know that is not a popular thing to say. But he needed both of his parents. They owed it to him to stay together for his well-being. I'm not saying it would have been easy. I'm saying it would have been the right thing to do.

Would it have prevented what happened to the mother, the teachers, the principle and school psychologist, the innocent children? I don't know.

But it may have helped their son. They owed it to him.

I say all of the above because I am a parent. And if this happened in my family I would spend the rest of my life blaming myself that I didn't do everything I could for my child.

I would feel guilty, forever.

I feel badly for the father because the rest of his days will be very difficult. He needs prayers. As does his remaining son.

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I read in the Daily Mail last night that she was a "doomsday prepper" so we now know where this is going.

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I saw that. I am afraid where it will lead. That TV show already makes us look like nutcases.

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Last night while watching TV I heard this referred to as an "assault rifle".

Adam then allegedly took his mother's...223 caliber rifle

Uh, no.

Zitat

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Yes, but it will be used to paint a picture along with stories like these.

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It's probably the intent.