Chilling new Sandy Hook report: ‘least resistance, greatest kill numbers’

[gejoslin]

Chilling new Sandy Hook report: ‘least resistance, greatest kill numbers’

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A chilling new perspective on the Link Removedattack that launched the current Link RemovedofLink Removed legislation from New England to Puget Sound suggests that mass murderer Adam Lanza planned the attack for very long time and picked an elementary school because “he felt it was a point of least resistance, where he could rack up the greatest number of kills.”


The revelations, reported Sunday and today, bring new insight to a crime that inspired Link Removed across the country, including the Link Removed. Gun legislation has so far failed in Washington, but Oregon lawmakers may still be working on some measures. A proposed semi-auto ban was derailed in Olympia, and a background check bill failed after sponsors Link Removeda cornerstone requirement for gun owner support.
According to the New York Daily News and Link Removed, quoting an un-named veteran police officer who apparently learned information from a recent seminar, Lanza had a “spreadsheet” that investigators now believe was a “score sheet” on which the killer compiled information on other mass shootings. Lanza, a video gamer, apparently wanted his name at the top of this score sheet.
The Daily News account also suggested that as Lanza moved from room to room, he did tactical reloads – that is, replaced magazines in his rifle even if there were still cartridges – so he would have a fully-loaded rifle when he entered the next room. If that is the case, it would negate any conversations about banning so-called “high-capacity” magazines because he kept swapping them out after using only part of the ammunition they contained.
According to the Daily News account, written by Mike Lupica, Lanza learned the tactic from a gamer scenario. The unidentified cop told Lupica, “He didn’t snap that day, he wasn’t one of those guys who was mad as hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore.”
“He had been planning this thing forever,” the Daily News quoted its source. “In the end, it was just a perfect storm: These guns, one of them an AR-15, in the hands of a violent, insane gamer. It was like porn to a rapist. They feed on it until they go out and say, enough of the video screen. Now I’m actually going to be a hunter.”
The investigation also allegedly believes that Lanza’s mother became something of an enabler and that she bought guns for him despite his increasing fascination with firearms.
If the story is accurate, it would suggest that nothing – no new legislation, no waiting period, gun or magazine ban – could have prevented the Connecticut “glory killer” from carrying out his attack.
In the aftermath, the public is left to grapple with the reality that such attacks may not be preventable, regardless what kind of feel-good legislation is adopted that impacts Link Removed. As has been witnessed in both Washingtons – with federal and state level gun ban proposals not getting much traction – the firearms community is done taking the rap.
Goes to show that all the "feel good laws" they're trying to pass wouldn't make any difference in Sandy Hook.Link Removed

 

[S&W645]

Gun control is all about people control. Mental health issues is what the gov't should be attacking.

 

[fuhr52]

This guy could have used a van full of fertilizer and accomplished the same goal but he wanted to witness the carnage first hand. No gun laws on the books at the time of the crime stopped this tragedy and no proposed laws being considered now will stop another nut job from repeating this. The liberal gun grabber are running over with all these feeling of good intentions and the sense of not letting a tragedy go to waste. This is a good opportunity to disarm the general public under this false security.

 

[gejoslin]

Theres no telling what is in the sealed records on Sandy Hook. It must be pretty telling or they wouldn't have sealed the records on the incident.

Sure would like to know what's in it.

 

[Warrior1256]

Just goes to show what I and many others have been saying all along. The antis know as well as we do that no manner of gun control will stop these attacks. Their goal is to disarm the public and each time one of these things happen the antis happily dance in the blood of the innocents to further their agenda.

 

[UATKP]

The federal law that made Sandy Hook Elementary school a gun-free zone is responsible for there being so many murders in that place. The Federal Government is complicit with Adam Lanza for the carnage, as are those legislators that voted for the law.

 

[Firefighterchen]

Why do reporters and even firearm enthusiasts think a tactical reload is only from video games?

 

[Firefighterchen]

Example 2

 

[Firefighterchen]

Example 3

Let's not blame video games, or use video games as excuses for tactics that took place. Video games are always on the frontline of trying to get real world tactics to be used throughout their experience. We all knew that gun free zones are places of least resistance, this article is nothing but reiteration of common sense. It will in no way sway the minds of our political leaders when the best advice they can come up with is to urinate and vomit on our attackers.

 

[AndeyHall]

Chilling new Sandy Hook report: ‘least resistance, greatest kill numbers’

I just had to write a 15 page research paper on mass murders. I now know more about them than I ever cared to. One thing that research has found to be the most consistent is that almost all mass murders were planned, and the shooter did not just "snap". Also, it said that usually they are almost impossible to prevent because during the planning, the shooters will only display symptoms of common mental issues such as depression, anxiety, or isolation. The most interesting thing I read that actually came from 3 of my sources is that the most effective means of prevention would be to go after the media. This article supports these sources in saying that the shooters often study past mass shootings and consider them to be "measuring sticks" for their own success. One of the most common trait between all mass murderers is narcissism, therefore the best way to combat these shootings is to give them very little media coverage, and when they do, make it entirely about the victims, never give an official body count, and never ever ever mention the shooters name, age, or anything about him. Now if you've ever heard the song "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley then you know the media cannot control their insensitive reporting practices as their more concerned with things like ratings and fame. "She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry!" But despite what may cause mass murders or the method they may use, the fact that the liberal party is using them for their anti-gun agendas is as absurd as their push to get rid of AR-15's to prevent crime. Like AR-15's, mass murders account for less than 1% of all murders. In fact, even after all that has happened in 2012, the rate of mass murders is still only around 0.1% of all murders, and even lower than that for violent crime in general. The fact of the matter is that mass murders are not becoming more common as the media has portrayed them to be. Rather, it is the media's sensationalization of mass murders that is making them SEEM more common. Fight the media, not the guns.

 

[fuhr52]

Sensationalism is what the liberal party lives for. Their taking full advantage of the emotional tsunami of a tragedy attracts low information voters in droves. It's unlikely they could further their liberal agenda without it and the main stream media is filled with liberal party supporters.

 

[Courtney.cj.chen]

Chilling new Sandy Hook report: ‘least resistance, greatest kill numbers’

I must be missing something here bc I feel that this recent development regarding tactical reloads is not a strong enough argument.

So- he reloaded partially empty mags with full ones prior to entering the next room- but- if that next room had alot of people - then he wouldn't stop until he emptied the entire high cap mag. I'm all for the argument that no ban will stop criminals and psychopaths- guess I'm just lacking a full comprehension of this topic-

 

[2Awarrior]

The fact that he performed tactical reloads, in this instance, I believe is irrelevant.
However, the fact that he possessed 30-rounders means he had the luxury, if he so desired, of entering each room with full destructive capacity without having to care about what the population of each given room was ahead of time.
I think the article's author thusly blew his point.(thanks for that)
The same blunder is made when someone argues that banning 20-round pistol mags is silly, by demonstrating that he can fire off 20 rounds almost as quickly even while being forced to swap out smaller mags once or twice. All that tells the buffoons in the Brady Bunch is that in order to eliminate the fire power, they must eliminate the gun itself. (thanks again)

 

[mojoman]

And the funny part of all of this, that those yahoo in congress know this but like someone said, it's about people control.

 

[kelcarry]

Just goes to show what I and many others have been saying all along. The antis know as well as we do that no manner of gun control will stop these attacks. Their goal is to disarm the public and each time one of these things happen the antis happily dance in the blood of the innocents to further their agenda.

Just remember that the worst gun violence in the US occurred at Virginia Tech. He had two pistols, one was a 22 and the other was a 9mm---NO ASSAULT WEAPONS, and he had quite a few mags, ALMOST ALL OF THEM WERE 10 ROUNDERS. So much for all this legislation crap about saving lives etal. It is all about these fanatics among us who LOVE to feed off the carcasses of dead people, especially 20 little children at Sandy Hook. To add to the disgusting display, we had to watch the garbage in the whitehouse surround himself with little children as dupes when he announced his gun control (he made sure that the kids included a white, a black, an asian, a girl, a boy--would not want to be unpolitically correct even when discussing this important issue--funny--no moslems in garb). Congress then goes ahead and makes sure we hear from adult dupes from Sandy Hook--these unfortunate, but stupid people do not even realize that they are being USED--does anyone really think they have something to say that makes a difference in this whole discussion or even to congress?

 

[fuhr52]

Let's not leave out the gun laws in Conn. at the time this tragic crime happened. How many of these current laws, had they been enforced, would have prevented this. Now we have the liberal gun grabbing knee jerk reactionary's that want to force some of these very same laws on the rest of the country. We tried this lunacy back in the 1920's with alcohol, gee how did that work out for us. Chicago still hasn't recovered.

 

[dogshawred]

I looked at this article in a different frame of mind and question why this particular information was leaked.
It seems that Lanza collected detailed data on mass murders for reference points, points that he wished to exceed, to better.
He didn't wake up that morning a go off the deep end as first proported by all sources, this was planned by him to make a name for himself. To be that person who is on the top of the list, the one that everyone was going to talk about. In other words the one that all the other nut jobs were going to have to better to be important.
How does this come about? You all guessed correctly media attention driven by societies need for all that is sensational and immoral. You don't see the good that occurs in our nation on news channels, unless it is at the very end of the broadcast as a feel good spot to end the production for the day.
Years ago they turned the phrase "canned news" and since then that's all we get canned snippets of news prerecorded and prechosen by those who control what will and will not be shown to you the public. How many times do you turn on the news waiting to here about a situation you know has occured to never see it mentioned on the air.
In a world of instant access you would think that the new stations could talk all day without ever repeating themselves about what was happening in the world, but no they repeat themselves every 30 minutes until something they want you to hear about happens and this goes for all of the networks, the good, the bad and the detestable.

 

[fuhr52]

To add to your analogy of Lanza wanting to be top dog and others wanting to one up him. On the other side we have the bleeding heart liberals with all these good intention that have nothing to do with stopping these tragedies, try to one up each other. Banning the tools of violent crime are not going to end these tragedies.

 

[2Awarrior]

...On the other side we have the bleeding heart liberals with all these good intention that have nothing to do with stopping these tragedies try to one up each other.

Yep. They're intentions are not pure - they're not trying to make things better, so much as they are trying to glorify themselves.
I like to think that's what separates gun owners and believers in the Constitution from politicos and lib extremists - the thing we want the most is to be left the ---k alone. Y'know? We're not insisting on being allowed to blow smoke in people's faces, or run around in public naked or do anything that intrudes in any way on anyone else's space. We just want to be left alone.

Edit - ok, so I'd probably like to run around in public naked. But I don't. And god I hope there's a point in there somewhere...!!!

 

[gejoslin]

Yep. They're intentions are not pure - they're not trying to make things better, so much as they are trying to glorify themselves.
I like to think that's what separates gun owners and believers in the Constitution from politicos and lib extremists - the thing we want the most is to be left the ---k alone. Y'know? We're not insisting on being allowed to blow smoke in people's faces, or run around in public naked or do anything that intrudes in any way on anyone else's space. We just want to be left alone.

Edit - ok, so I'd probably like to run around in public naked. But I don't. And god I hope there's a point in there somewhere...!!!

They definitely want the glory and to be reelected. That's why Gov Dopey Cuomo wanted NY to be the first to pass those stupid gun control laws. Now CO has

jumped in the pool. Both of those states are in for a lot of test cases and new laws that try to undo those same laws. Probably for years to come. Not to mention

the political fall out. Thank the Lord there are a number of states like Texas who have said peddle your BS elsewhere! In CO the Sheriff's have said they will not

enforce those new "gun control (people)". Let's hope that's the case for CO sake!