As the history of the shooter starts to evolve, the picture of a troubled teen is emerging. His father was an executive with GE, his mother on the other hand was like us...of our mind set...she was indeed a prepper. How do you think we are going to be portrayed in the MSM?
I took the following excerpt from the Daily News this morning:
"Dan Holmes, owner of a landscaping firm who worked on the family’s home, said she was an avid gun collector: ‘She told me she would go target shooting with her kids.’
Sources close to the investigation also revealed last night that Nancy had recently stopped hosting monthly get-togethers for neighbors in order to look after her increasingly troubled son.
The 50-year-old is thought to have worked as a supply teacher at the elementary school where the shootings took place.
Last night it also emerged Nancy was a member of the Doomsday Preppers movement, which believes people should prepare for end of the world.
Her former sister-in-law Marsha said she had turned her home ‘into a fortress’. She added: ‘Nancy had a survivalist philosophy which is why she was stockpiling guns. She had them for defense.
‘She was stockpiling food. She grew up on a farm in New Hampshire. She was skilled with guns. We talked about preppers and preparing for the economy collapsing.’
Marsha added that her nephew had been raised by ‘kind, nurturing’ parents’. She said she last seen Adam in June but recalled nothing appeared out of the ordinary.
‘Nancy was a good mother, kind-hearted,’ she added. ‘She wasn’t one to deny reality. She would have sought psychiatric help for her son had she felt he needed it.’"
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248782/Adam-Lanza-How-classmates-remember-genius-turned-heartless-killer.html#ixzz2FEHwsz6y
I read the article. Its hard to make sense of what he did; it is senseless and we really have no idea what his motives were, etc. It is hard to read an article like this when people are trying to speculate and piece together things that they really don't know all the circumstances that went on in this family, with Adam, etc. Its almost sensationalism I think to write a piece like this and opens up doors for people to start looking at their neighbors or friends who might be preparers, who might have an "odd" child, etc. But us as a society always want to try to figure out "why". Sometimes we just won't know why and we will have to try to live with it as a senseless horrific act.
ReplyDeleteI do know from experience, having a daughter with Asperger's, that it is an often misunderstood diagnosis, even by "experts". I hope people won't be comparing all affected with Asperger's as potentially being "walking time bombs".
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