Police: Sandy Hook gunman had compiled ‘doctoral thesis’ of mass shootings

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/19/police-sandy-hook-gunman-had-compiled-doctoral-thesis-of-mass-shootings/

The 20-year-old man behind the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut kept a database and “score sheet” of similar crimes as part of a plan to achieve greater levels of violence, CBS News reported on Monday.

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One particular influence on Lanza’s rampage was the July 2011 attack by Anders Breivik in Norway. Breivik, an avid fan of Islamophobic conservatives, killed 77 people in attacks in downtown Oslo and at a summer camp on nearby Utoya Island.

The New York Daily News reported on Sunday that Lanza’s database contained the names of 500 gunmen and failed shooters, according to an anonymous officer who said he was briefed in detail on Lanza’s plan at a law enforcement conference in a seminar by Connecticut State Police Col. Danny Stebbins.

Lanza’s dossier, the source said, contained “names and the number of people killed and the weapons that were used, even the precise make and model of the weapons. It had to have taken years. It sounded like a doctoral thesis, that was the quality of the research.”

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1. The seminar speaker also claimed Lanza was insane.

Granted 'insane' is a weasel word, often used merely to demean a person seen as an opponent, Stebbins did not and apparently cannot, produce evidence that Lanza had a mental illness that is known to be characterized by violence.

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2. He was totally obsessed and his mother had to know it.

I think we need a Nancy Lanza law. If you allow a high power weapon to get in the hands of a person who could not legally buy one, you are charged with the murder if the victims.

The whole time he was working on that thesis ,he knew he could get the weapons because his mother supplied them.

Mrs Lanza would most likely have been charged with nothing.
It is time to get tough on enablers.

I wonder what the father knew.

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3. Jesus.

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4. There: '...the weapons that were used, even the precise make and model of the weapons...'

Is why people don't want to hear about this fetish - the obsession on technical details so often spouted, mean nothing in the big picture.

The quality of the tool for killing human beings is not worthy of discussion by anyone in their right mind. The reason or logic behind a dissection of how to kill is beneath contempt.

This is only valid for a person who is in the theater of war - not at home. It is the business of soldiers to kill 'the enemy.' So whoever the enemy is at home, and the determination of their fate is not up to someone who insists on their right to own and operate a gun.

Sorry, most people don't have the quality of thinking or right to look at their fellow as a target. Criminals indulge themselves with such thinking, and should lose their liberty if they act it out, everytime.