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In reply to the discussion: A motive is emerging (Sandy Hook shooting) [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(106,881 posts)"no good could come of Nancy's spending time volunteering with other kids". What an awful thing to say. Of course good came of it. What do you have against people volunteering with kids? One moment you're saying she controlled him too much, the next you're saying there's something wrong with leaving him alone, as an adult.
He didn't speak much for himself, whether his mother was around or not. The barber (someone who also said "he had to be possessed by the devil" and "I wish I wouldve killed him then" - not a man whose judgement I'd trust) said that he didn't get out of the chair when told the haircut was finished. So Adam did not respond to the barber. In which case, the responses would have come from the mother. It's only his opinion that she 'barely let him speak'.
Whether the guns were locked in a safe, we don't know. He had a few days on his own in the house while she was away; he may have found a key.