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HooptieWagon

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15. I'm sure police looked into it.

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #14)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:10 AM

Dec 2012

Checking weapons permits records and such. And I'm sure the police questioned parents thoroughly, and by all accounts they cooperated. Keep spinning, though. Maybe when you dig deep enough you'll find a clue.

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Where did Adam learn to use guns? At home, like most mass shooters. [View all] pnwmom Dec 2012 OP

Reason bongbong Dec 2012 #1

Too many people in this country are selfish fools. ellisonz Dec 2012 #2

The Aurora shooter wasn't familiar with guns. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #3

The Columbine shooter found his weapons at home. pnwmom Dec 2012 #5

But you are ignoring the instances where that wasn't the case. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #7

How do you know what the parent was "encouraging"? former9thward Dec 2012 #4

Because I read several reports of his mother taking him target shooting. pnwmom Dec 2012 #6

Yet the Aurora and Va Tech shooters had no history of gun interest HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #8

We don't know what they were exposed to in their homes. pnwmom Dec 2012 #10

Well, neither had owned weapons previously, HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #13

You think the parents of the shooters would have been volunteering that info? pnwmom Dec 2012 #14

I'm sure police looked into it. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #15

Right. Because all guns are registered and all parents of mass shooters pnwmom Dec 2012 #16

If true, then your gun ban plan won't work, HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #20

Your lack of understanding of human nature and legal reality is laughable. pnwmom Dec 2012 #25

Your lack of evidence is what's laughable. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #27

You're projecting. n/t pnwmom Dec 2012 #28

I agree with your OP... ohheckyeah Dec 2012 #18

Yes, that case was probably an exception. n/t pnwmom Dec 2012 #19

Only if you can make the case of a majority of the time being an exception. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #22

Given both the mother and the shooter are dead these reports are pretty easy to come by. former9thward Dec 2012 #9

You're right about the media coverage. It was crazy how hard it was for them to decide pnwmom Dec 2012 #11

CNN: Adam Lanza's family: Mom liked parlor games, guns; dad, a tax exec, remarried OmahaBlueDog Dec 2012 #12

"It was just a nice normal family"... Yeah, right.. Cha Dec 2012 #17

That family was NOT normal. ananda Dec 2012 #21

I taught my stepson to shoot a .22 caliber semiautomatic rifle when he was 10 years old slackmaster Dec 2012 #23

Rita Hayworth "I don't know how to shoot. " Johonny Dec 2012 #24

His mom apparently wanted to live by the sword. kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #26