Adam Lanza's call to a radio station one year before he killed those kids and their

[malaise]

teachers/administrators
Freaking wow!
http://pix11.com/2014/01/16/adam-lanza-made-strange-call-to-radio-station-a-year-before-sandy-hook-massacre/#axzz2qaJXrmdR


"...And dismissing his attack as simply being the senseless violence and impulsiveness of a chimp, instead of a human, is wishful thinking at best,” he says.

“His attacks can be parallel to the attacks, the random acts of violence, that you see on your show every week, committed by humans which the mainstream also has no explanation for,” the caller said. “An actual human, I don’t think it would be such a stretch. He very well could be a teenage mall shooter or something like that. …”

Read more: http://pix11.com/2014/01/16/adam-lanza-made-strange-call-to-radio-station-a-year-before-sandy-hook-massacre/#ixzz2qaKfrtHx

[Common Sense Party]

1. Why would Lanza, out in CT, be calling into Anarchy Radio on the other side of the country,

in Portland, OR? Is it some well-known national program rather than some local favorite?

Very strange call, whether it is Lanza or not.

[The Straight Story]

2. Meh. Has nothing to do with it. He was a bright happy kid. The gun is to blame

We need more research and threads about tools. We expect every human who owns a gun (all 45+million here in the US) to do this any day now (unless they work for the government whom we all trust completely).

No one really wants to talk about Adam or WHY he did it and how we can prevent future such things because the ONLY cause people will attribute to this is guns. Which means everyone else owning them is planning on the same thing.

Post a thread title "Adam lanza's love of guns spurred the shootings" and you will have to make more room in here for all the people flooding in and nodding approval, followed by their simple solutions of more and more laws never stopping to ponder why over ninety-nine percent of gun owners don't do the same things with guns that the people they read about each day do.

To some the puzzle is solved and the solution evident. All humans are wildly happy and wouldn't hurt a spider if they removed guns from their fellow citizens. Nothing else to investigate (and why not just let all shooters free and just pass a law that they are not allowed to shoot anyone else with a gun - new law like that would stop them from doing a crime like that again).

[rbixby]

3. The obvious solution

to a bad crazy person with a gun is a good crazy person with a gun

[The Straight Story]

4. The obvious solution is to look at the outliers in these things and focus on them

When you have a very few who own something using it such a way the natural question to most would be why since the how is already well distributed across the population and the overwhelming majority never do such things.

It is about numbers and science and not emotion or bigotry/bias. I can name off quite a few people I know with guns who have never used them in any way such as this or in any crime - and I am obviously not alone in this observation as the numbers show 99% of people who own them are the same. If someone I personally knew did use a gun to harm others the questions would focus on the why and not the how as the how is not the cause.

If people truly want to prevent things the methods to use do not center in removing the how, which as show above is not the determining factor, but the why.

Not always easy. But it is easy to blame the tool and look for more and more ways to restrict it (and it is already illegal to use the tool in that manner, so new laws don't seem to be a deterrent).