One Home Search Away From Being Adam Lanza

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Old saying goes
If you are gonna play the game learn to wear the name

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[lee n. field]

Don't know why the Lanzas had a 10MM, but there are many reasons a person might want to own and shoot one.

She was rich.  An impulse purchase, perhaps?

[Tallpine]

She was rich.  An impulse purchase, perhaps?

All of her friends had a 9mm.

She wanted something bigger than they had. 

[lee n. field]

I wonder if she was on a gunboard somewhere.  That would be interesting.  Do I recall correctly, that the kid wiped his PC beforehand?

[TechMan]

I wonder if she was on a gunboard somewhere.  That would be interesting.  Do I recall correctly, that the kid wiped his PC beforehand?

I believe he attempted to destroy the HDD.

[BlueStarLizzard]

So, does this mean I shouldn't buy a Glock 20?

 

The guns a person has in there collection means nothing more then that's what they like/want.
Who knows why they Lanza's had a Glock 20.
Does it really *expletive deleted*ing matter?

The question of "who should have what and why" is not a question WE should ask, bother to discuss or even entertain. It is a question of the anti gun movement which they want answered at our expence.

As for tinfoiling this event, Really? That's what we decend too?
Yes, we know that the anti's jump on these tragic events and politise them to the maximum, but to sit and *whine* about it being a government setup is wasting time.
In all (sad) honesty, the government doesn't need to manufacture such events. They happen in the natural course of events, and esculate in times of civil unease.

I'm more concerned with the media continuing to hype what I consider to be a mediocore collection of firearm related stuff as a sign of insainity.

[birdman]

I'm more concerned with the media continuing to hype what I consider to be a mediocore collection of firearm related stuff as a sign of insainity.

This.  Every time I hear 4-6 firearms and 1000 rounds of ammo being described as an "arsenal"...when I would describe it as a "reasonable, though not excessive, day at the range", terrifies me.

If that is an arsenal, imagine what would be said about some of the collections on this board?

[BlueStarLizzard]

This.  Every time I hear 4-6 firearms and 1000 rounds of ammo being described as an "arsenal"...when I would describe it as a "reasonable, though not excessive, day at the range", terrifies me.

If that is an arsenal, imagine what would be said about some of the collections on this board?

Arms depot?

[French G.]

If you have to make more than 3 trips to your car just to set up your range bench you might be a terrorist.

[BlueStarLizzard]

If you have to make more than 3 trips to your car just to set up your range bench you might be a terrorist.

Hell, your car on a daily basis, no range trip, probably would qualify.

[Tallpine]

Or deciding which handgun to carry today 

[BlueStarLizzard]

Or deciding which handgun to carry today 

I suprised my dad ever can make it out of the house on time.

Last I checked there were three diffrent loaded pistols on the shelf in his headboard, and he wasn't home, so who knows what was with him.

He usually seems to narrow it down to two.

It's worse then a woman with a closet full of shoes.

[Tallpine]

I suprised my dad ever can make it out of the house on time.

Last I checked there were three diffrent loaded pistols on the shelf in his headboard, and he wasn't home, so who knows what was with him.

He usually seems to narrow it down to two.

It's worse then a woman with a closet full of shoes.

A guy has to decide whether to flaunt it or cover it up 

[longeyes]

I don't care what you mock, it doesn't change what is going on.   This is not just about "journalistic incompetence."  This is about information black-outs that cannot be dismissed that facilely.  What you know about Nancy Lanza or her husband can be summed up in two, three sentences.  That isn't accidental; is it a conspiracy?  I don't know, do you?  It is very easy to dismiss what is going on in America as foolish conspiracy-making, but the people who run things are counting on your thinking that way.  It is just as foolish to dismiss conspiracies as to see them everywhere (and I don't).  I have suggested the need to turn over a lot more rocks, that's all.

[makattak]

I don't care what you mock, it doesn't change what is going on.   This is not just about "journalistic incompetence."  This is about information black-outs that cannot be dismissed that facilely.  What you know about Nancy Lanza or her husband can be summed up in two, three sentences.  That isn't accidental; is it a conspiracy?  I don't know, do you?  It is very easy to dismiss what is going on in America as foolish conspiracy-making, but the people who run things are counting on your thinking that way.  It is just as foolish to dismiss conspiracies as to see them everywhere (and I don't).  I have suggested the need to turn over a lot more rocks, that's all.

I must point out to you that I know even less about the killers' parents at Columbine. (And I don't remember their names, BY CHOICE. These sub-human wretches don't even deserve infamy.)

That's not a conspiracy, that just seems to be the way it works. (Same for Virginia Tech, Arizona, Denver, etc...)

[longeyes]

"That just seems to be the way it works."

Well, indeed, it does. 

Maybe that's why we still haven't heard, for example, from the people who were there in Benghazi? 

The fact is, a very few people make the decisions about what constitutes "news," constitutes reality.  It is less about conspiracy than about the control of information by small cadres of people.   How many people do you think are in on the editorial meetings at, say, the Washington Post when editors decide what a "story" is and isn't?  (I can tell you: I've been there.  Answer: not many.)

[makattak]

"That just seems to be the way it works."

Well, indeed, it does. 

Maybe that's why we still haven't heard, for example, from the people who were there in Benghazi? 

No, that is a lack of journalistic curiosity in protection of their boyfriend.

I was not specific enough in my point- we don't know much about the parents of the mass shooters because it is the nature of reporters to avoid trying to place blame on the parents. The more they report about who the parents are, their relationship to each other and to the mass murderer, the more it looks like they are trying to say it's the parent's fault. As a result, most reporters will avoid providing (or even looking into) information about the parents so that they will not be uninvited to their preferred cocktail parties for being such a crass boor. (Or, they may actually wish to avoid blaming the parents, thinking such things "just happen). Whatever the motivation, they want to avoid the appearance of blaming the parents.

[longeyes]

To whom it may concern, which ought to be all of you:

Someone has changed my screen name.  Boys will be boys, I guess.

I would like to believe that this is some ill-conceived April Fool's joke, but then again I'm a bit cynical at this point in life.

/longeyes/

[BlueStarLizzard]

To whom it may concern, which ought to be all of you:

Someone has changed my screen name.  Boys will be boys, I guess.

I would like to believe that this is some ill-conceived April Fool's joke, but then again I'm a bit cynical at this point in life.

/longeyes/

Being sour grapes about it probably doesn't help.

[TechMan]

To whom it may concern, which ought to be all of you:

Someone has changed my screen name.  Boys will be boys, I guess.

I would like to believe that this is some ill-conceived April Fool's joke, but then again I'm a bit cynical at this point in life.

/longeyes/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syV2LkGpQB0

[Fitz]

Lol

[freakazoid]

To whom it may concern, which ought to be all of you:

Someone has changed my screen name.  Boys will be boys, I guess.

I would like to believe that this is some ill-conceived April Fool's joke, but then again I'm a bit cynical at this point in life.

/longeyes/

That sounds exactly like something an FBI Informant might say...


 

[longeyes]

Being sour grapes about it probably doesn't help.

Stop, think, repeat.

[LadySmith]

To whom it may concern, which ought to be all of you:

Someone has changed my screen name.  Boys will be boys, I guess.

I would like to believe that this is some ill-conceived April Fool's joke, but then again I'm a bit cynical at this point in life.

/longeyes/

Please don't take offense. This happens around here every April 1st to somebody/somebodies.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Stop, think, repeat.

Maybe he should be tinfoil.