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Originally Posted by edge
By Sari Horwitz, Published: December 15
Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School carrying a Glock, a SIG Sauer and a Bushmaster rifle, all legally registered to his mother, law enforcement officials said, and all capable of massive killing power.
He chose the rifle over the two handguns to massacre most of his 26 victims in a matter of minutes, inflicting “devastating” multiple wounds, said Connecticut’s chief medical examiner.
The Washington Post
GRAPHIC | Two of the deadliest massacres happened this year, but 11 others also claimed lives.
Police said that they found “dozens and dozens” of shell casings from .223 high-velocity rounds inside the school, the type of spent casings that come from bullets used in the Bushmaster rifle.
The lightweight .223 bullets travel at a velocity of about 3,000 feet per second, and after they enter their target, they explode throughout the tissue. As the medical examiner H. Wayne Carver II put it at a news conference Saturday, the bullets’ “energy stays in the body.”
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Just trying to circumspect/move forward here........pls forgive if my contemplations seem out of place - they're not meant to be, I have been reflecting on the following:
Why the weapons above, registered legally to the murder's dead Mother, were given accessibility to the Son - however remote the possibility?
Why was the Mother not aware that these weapons could possibly be accessed and used by her troubled Son? Did she not know the extent to which the Son was troubled?
Was the Mother not aware of the Son's accumulation of specialized 'storm-trooper' clothing and ammo?
Wasn't the fact that she was a teacher at the school, and apparently well-educated, not a basis to tip her off and make her aware what was potentially possible - given the weapons availabilty to her troubled Son? I'm wondering if it ever crossed her mind the danger in the weapons being available to him.
These are questions that obviously the deceased Mother cannot answer, but my reason for posting these Qs is that there seems to be common signs in the young men that are slaughtering others in recent years.
The Mother was not only the source of the weapons, but she was also intimately involved as a teacher/faculty member where the Son did his murdering.
These terrible, murderous rampages just keep happening. Are there not ppl (family members/parents) that can put the stop to potential future events like Newtown, CT? I think so, if they will just take seriously the behavior in their family members that may be; on-the-edge, or leading in this direction.