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In reply to the discussion: Adam Lanza was crazy. Nancy Lanza was crazy. [View all]_Liann_
(377 posts)There isn't anything good that people want us to know about Adam Lanza.
All I ever heard is he was rude and self-involved.
He had no interest in socializing, and his mother catered to his anti-social course.
His games were anti-social. No internet friends have come forth.
I take the stories that mom taught him to shoot for building his self-esteem as cover stories she told people, not her actual story if she believed in impending apocalypse survivalism..
Until here, nobody reported that Nancy Lanza was living on $300,000K alimony per year, so I didn't have that. She certainly had the money to put Adam Lanza in good circumstances where he could do better.
I'm still sticking with my paranoia theory on her explaining to people various future plans but keeping her personal gloom private and not really discussing things that she was deliberating. I don't know how much she bought into her survivalist fantasy, maybe every other day the sun came out. Maybe she had a supply of mother's little helpers that keep her more grounded, or might have been part of the problem. Toxicology is not released to the public yet for either Lanza.
I'm not the only one suspicious of conflicting reports, on the one hand she was intending to hospitalize him because she thought that she had a fatal disease, on the other hand teaching him to shoot, and then again they were all whisking away to Washington State where he would go to a school for people like him. If she told every one of her acquaintances different and conflicting stories I prefer to go back to the hard evidence.
Son was not a loving son -- he killed mom with four bullets while she slept. Sometimes hate is earned, not gratuitous. Maybe the son heard all the conflicting reports too and was disturbed by her plans that he choose to believe were not in his interest.
We can all agree the son was insane, a particular type of insanity, not just nebulous "coocoo". The type most likely to fit the hard evidence is a type that gives many signals over time, although not everybody knows what they mean or is alerted by them.
Adam Lanza was at least armed by his mother's cache, and trained to shoot by him, and sole supplier of his violent games. That itself is pretty reckless for an anti-social child living in the basement next to the weapons locker. What other dynamics went on will wait for brother to open up eventually about life in that house.