I am familiar with these weapons and in doing the math, (154 shots), he dropped 5 magazines and inserted the 6th before killing himself with a Glock pistol. In all of this horrendous deed my biggest question is why? Here is an excerpt from an article I read about what police had found when they asked that very question.
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Adam was a deranged adolescent who was obsessed with violent video games such as Call of Duty, and it is believed that his reason for shooting at the school was because he wanted live out a video game in real life. He had an extensive hit list, according to a law officer.
“We were told (Lanza) had around 500 people on this sheet,” a law enforcement veteran told The New York Post. “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.”
“We keep calling them mass murderers,” the veteran cop said. “But there should be a new way of referring to them: Glory killers.”
“They don’t believe this was just a spreadsheet. They believe it was a score sheet,” he continued. “This was the work of a video gamer, and that it was his intent to put his own name at the very top of that list. They believe that he picked an elementary school because he felt it was a point of least resistance, where he could rack up the greatest number of kills. That’s what (the Connecticut police) believe.”
“They believe that (Adam) believed that it was the way to pick up the easiest points. It’s why he didn’t want to be killed by law enforcement. In the code of a gamer, even a deranged gamer like this little b**tard, if somebody else kills you, they get your points. They believe that’s why he killed himself.”
This is truly shocking information. Adam is known to have been unhinged, and that he was addicted to playing violent games, so this could finally be an explanation as to why he would commit such a horrendous crime.
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This is from the Hollywood life website, below is the link.
http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/03/18/adam-lanza-motive-sandy-hook-elementary-school-glory-killer-video-gamer/
Even if congress wont do anything about assault rifle availability, or magazine capacity, could we at least get something done about violent video games and the glorification of murder and violence in Hollywood?
1 dead child is too many.
"If those magazines had held ten rounds, forcing the shooter to reload at least six more times would our children be alive today?"
Unfortunately, that wouldn't boost the odds much when you have a KILLER who has plenty of time to plan and practice.
Upon further investigation I read that he was on his sixth magazine and still had three left, however none of the magazines were completely empty... (just trying to get into this little devils head here), seconds count, if you drop the magazine without emptying it you still have a round in the chamber, no need to cycle the weapons action to retrieve a new round from the clip. An idea which would fit into a maximum body count plot.
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