Adam Lanza’s Father, in First Public Comments, Says ‘You Can’t Get Any More Evil’

[markpkessinger]

96. Many people grow up in households with guns, and manage to do so safely and without ever ...

... killing anyone. I grew up in a small town in central PA, where virtually every male over the age of 12 hunted, as did my father, my brother and me. There were probably, at any given time, half a dozen rifles, maybe four or vie shotguns/, and Dad had a collection of antique handguns. At the same time, however, my Dad -- like the fathers of most of the other kids in town -- was an absolute fanatic about gun safety, to the point that he would yell at us kids if he saw us pointing even so much as a toy gun at another person. And that ethic was instilled in us long before we were ever permitted to handle real guns. Look, I am not some nut who opposes gun regulations by any means, and find the NRA to be as vile an organization as one is likely to find anywhere. But merely having a father who is "into guns" for sport shooting or hunting does not make one into a murderer, let alone a mass murderer, nor does it make someone a 'terrible father.'