New York Post "Mother shared her gun obsession with school shooter"

[RLBosley]

Apparently, enjoying firearms and trying to teach your children to shoot turns them into "monsters"... who knew?


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/mother_made_kid_slay_madman_ojfQG64P9S35iQz9x3BmTJ

New York Post

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.

 

[EL1227]

So then to show his appreciation, he shot her 4 times in the face while she slept.

In this case, their leap in logic equates to what a black widow does to her mate in appreciation of their 'relationship'.

How do these people call themselves journalists? They're National Enquirer rejects.

 

[squig]

I don't really see the New York Post as a credible source, and usually only read it for entertainment. They must pay off a lot of people to keep from being slapped with libel suits.

 

[JDove]

Apparently, enjoying firearms and trying to teach your children to shoot turns them into "monsters"... who knew? :rolleyes

Doing anything they don't approve of or understand turns you into a monster.

 

[squirrels]

You know what...if you're going to teach your kid to shoot, you'd better be a decent parent in the first place.

For her to give that kid the knowledge and skillset to kill people, without giving him the emotional structure and support that he needed as a child...well, yes. She "created a monster".

People need to be parents first, gun-owners second.

Classic case of sh*tty parenting. And, unfortunately, a good argument that many people ARE too irresponsible/careless to own weapons. Which in no way justifies oppressing the responsible ones, but still...there you go.

 

[zoostation]

I still remember the first time I ever heard of that paper, when I was about 18 and saw that movie Top Secret with Val Kilmer in it. The famous line in there "Klaus is a moron who knows only what he reads in the New York Post" always stuck with me. As I grew older I understood what they meant.

 

[eruby]

The New York Post makes the Daily News look like Pulitzer material.

 

[randian]

Apparently, enjoying firearms and trying to teach your children to shoot turns them into "monsters"... who knew?

Also, mere enjoyment of firearms = "obsession".

 

[Yoshi]

The New York Post makes the Daily News look like Pulitzer material.

I don't really see the New York Post as a credible source, and usually only read it for entertainment. They must pay off a lot of people to keep from being slapped with libel suits.

Agreed on both accounts!

 

[Mr H]

Also, mere enjoyment of firearms = "obsession".

Blaming the mother. Nice.

She may have been remiss in storing the weapons, and if so deserves blame.

BUT... now the CT ME is looking to see if he had a genetic reason for being violent.

He was pushed to anger by her wanting to commit him.

Seems to me like an active push to shift the blame from the act(or) to the tools.

 

[pfrazier]

I am sure that they story was vetted by Nanny Bloomberg... or at the very least he giggled with little girl glee after reading it

 

[HardHatMan]

Also, mere enjoyment of firearms = "obsession".

Yeah, according to my mother-in-law, because I own "assault weapons and handguns with high capacity clips" I am mentally unstable.

It must terrify her that her daughter (my wife) sleeps in a house where all these evil things exist.

 

[porscheguy]

Any publication with "New York" in the title, I take with a grain of salt.