The scapegoating of Nancy Lanza

It appears some just look for hasty answers. Some people blame the shooter who they believe was evil, but all the evidence only points to a young man with a mental disorder. Some people blame it on a lack of appropriate gun control laws, when all the evidence only points to the fact that there is no law that would have stopped this tragedy. And some people blame it on this mother, the one person who they think could have prevented it all…when there isn’t enough evidence yet to even suggest this.

Blame is just a lazy person’s way of making sense of chaos.

-Doug Coupland

Yet his mother told the babysitter not to turn his back on Adam?
Of course, that could be grandstanding by the babysitter.

Wethal on December 23, 2012 at 7:41 PM

Probably not a good idea to turn your back on most kids. They all can get into trouble fast.

xblade on December 23, 2012 at 8:06 PM

I wondered about that myself. He doesn’t exactly say who would be hurt if he turned his back on Adam.

From the desk of the Secretary of Homeland Security and Office of President of the United States.

It has been determined that someone within 5 miles of your residence has and may have an undiagnosed mental issue. Under Executive order you are required to hand in your weapons within 30 days of this letter to the nearest police station or location where you purchased the weapons. No monetary compensation is to be issued.

This order is issued, due to the fact that they might steal your legal firearm from your legal gun safe and use them to commit a gun crime. To prevent that no one within 5 miles of this person is allowed their legal right to firearms. If you move to a new city there is no guarantee you will not need to hand in your weapons there as well.

Failure to comply is punishable by 10 years in jail and 1 million dollar fine. Agents will do door by door checks within 60 days of this letter and will have full access to your property to do a weapons check. Under this Executive order, the 4th and 5th amendment is suspended and you must comply. If there is any resistance to a property check, you will be charges with the 10 years in jail time.

Yet his mother told the babysitter not to turn his back on Adam?
Of course, that could be grandstanding by the babysitter.

Wethal

The babysitter didn’t say she said that because the kid might attack him though.

Here’s the full comment:

“His mom, Nancy, had always instructed me to keep an eye on him at all times and never turn my back or even go to the bathroom or anything like that, which I found odd, but I really didn’t ask,” Kraft told KABC.

Sounds just as likely that she was simply worried that he would hurt himself, but who knows? You’d think if the kid was homicidal at age 9 or 10, his father or brother would have revealed that by now.

Just remember when you jump to the blame her for having the guns you open the door to those who tink since we can never be fully prepared for what someone might do if they have some sort of mental break we shouldn’t have guns around anyone other than police.

Paul-Cincy on December 23, 2012 at 7:52 PM

Horribly sad, but true.

p.s. Why do I feel this urge to go, ‘Beef. It’s what’s for dinner–NYAAAAAH!’

The boy is described as anything but menacing – rather, as withdrawn, antisocial, even “meek”,

A smouldering hatred, hidden through cunning.

I’ve seen it all before.

Yet grief on Nancy Lanza’s account has been stinting. With funerals of children and teachers standing-room-only, Nancy’s service last Thursday drew a sparse two dozen relatives.

my mind also stops the massacre’s death toll at 26.

Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM

Family murder-suicides are common, though usually it’s a husband shooting a wife, and then himself. Their funerals aren’t public affairs. If he’d restricted his killing to his mother and then himself, it would be forgotten in a week. What’s remarkable about this is the deaths of the 20 children and 6 school employees.

The discreetly deleted fatality was Adam’s first and no doubt primary target: his mother, shot in her bed, four times in the head. Yet grief on Nancy Lanza’s account has been stinting. With funerals of children and teachers standing-room-only, Nancy’s service last Thursday drew a sparse two dozen relatives.

Nancy Lanza is a scapegoat. A vibrant woman of 52 was killed in Connecticut, and her death might have merited at least one damn bell toll.

Something about the American psyche doesn’t seem able to “go there” beyond the 26 victims shot inside that elementary school. From Fox News to the New York Times, there seems to be a wall–a sort of sacrilege in mourning the ‘Woman Who Spawned the Monster’. Although I wonder at this neglect, and hope that Nancy Lanza suffered none of the terror the other victims felt, my mind also stops the massacre’s death toll at 26.