“I am feeling that there is more anger toward the mother than there is toward the son”
“Why would a woman who had a son like this, who clearly had serious issues, keep assault rifles in the house and teach him how to shoot them?” she said. “To deal with that, there’s a feeling here that we’re just going to focus on the 26 innocent people who died at the school.”…
Nancy Lanza apparently broke no laws and suffered a violent, tragic death. People who knew her — those who played in her regular dice game and those who saw her at her regular restaurant — said she was devoted to her son and kind and generous to others. They see her as a victim like any of the others.
But for some, how to refer to her — and what to think of her — is a subject of much conversation. While some call her the first victim, many think she bears at least some of the blame.
“Maybe somewhere there is a deep thought that the shooter’s mother could be responsible for leaving the guns available,” said Himansu Patel, the Newtown Convenience and Deli owner, who decided to leave Nancy Lanza out of his memorial to the victims.
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Furthermore, why isn’t there any more anger at our government? The mother was stockpiling ammunition and supplies because she was awaiting the financial collapse and wanted to be prepared.
The dire straights of our economic woes are a direct result of poor government policy.
If the economy didn’t suck so bad, perhaps she wouldn’t have been stockpiling weapons, ammunition and canned foods for the impending doom?
If we’re going to blame anyone other than the shooter, I prefer it be the government. Economic mess, mental health system is total crap, the politically correct crap that allows people to think we can have the mentally ill “function” in society without worry and those damn “gun free zones” where people get killed due to being defenseless.
ButterflyDragon on December 20, 2012 at 1:34 PM
They were always trying to count the VT murderer, though. Even in one of the memorial services.
Blake on December 20, 2012 at 1:36 PM
If she was about to default on a variable rate mortgage, we’d never hear the end of it from the MSM.
Paul-Cincy on December 20, 2012 at 1:38 PM
What a detailed memory you have! Criminals certainly do have it better in Canada.
I’d like to see a follow-up. Now the parents know that everything the Crown Prosecutors said about their lil dumpling was true–including that he intended to kill them. Are they still behaving like he’s just away at college?
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM
Really? He killed the most during his rampage, but I can’t even think of his name…Hu-something?
Remember after Columbine, this Illinois guy planted 15 crosses–one for each of the dead–and overnight, somebody dug up and smashed the ones for killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (funny I remember those names.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 20, 2012 at 1:46 PM
Christien on December 20, 2012 at 1:50 PM
it’s so cruel to blame the mom when nobody fully knows the details of what happened. i think she truly cared about her son but was scared of him. anyone would be! it’s hard to properly help and treat someone like that. she was doing the best she could but her son was getting crazier and crazier.
like others have said, the fact that he tried to buy his own gun implies that the mom did NOT have the guns easily available…
Sachiko on December 20, 2012 at 2:02 PM
My guess is if she kept her guns locked away and he figured out some cunning way to break in, the media wouldn’t report it. It doesn’t advance the “irresponsible gun owner” meme, so it’s of no use to them.
The Count on December 20, 2012 at 2:13 PM
Love is blind.
I blame the mother
She got 240,000 in alimony. I live around people who dream of 25,000 a year with no home. Mother kept danger boy for two years after High School. Could have dumped the house, rented a 3K apt for herself, and put danger boy into a 200K/year setting.
If he didn’t want to go, violently?
Before anyone tells danger boy he is leaving the cocoon, the guns had to be gone. And knives. And bricks and brass lamps. Sell the guns and get rent a cops for D Day. This is not committing him. This is evicting a legal adult
Set up the intervention crowd, Say goodbye. When he blows, the cops are called and he gets hauled off to a lot cheaper facility on the State’s dime. Over 18, he had no claim for support. He would get an SSI check like everyone else, end up in a group home, and have a lot better supervision from someone who didn’t care as much, so was not blind to the threat
He might even learn to be happy without Mother, which he needed, badly, as his path was set
That’s why I blame Mother. If both Father and Mother had bailed, danger boy would have cracked earlier, when he had less ability to kill other people’s children
entagor on December 20, 2012 at 2:37 PM
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