It was merely that the original post said something about ‘sports shooter’ as if she was actually involved in formal, skill-based target shooting, whereas she was simply one of the sad, deranged, fringe group people in the US who believe that survival from the coming apocalypse

Moggy

Really, hmmm.

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) —” Everybody knew her name. Nancy Lanza was the one who, if she heard you were short on cash, regularly offered to pick up the tab at My Place.

Two or three nights a week, Lanza — the mother of the gunman in Connecticut’s horrific school massacre — came in for carryout salads, but stayed for Chardonnay and good humor. The divorced mother of two — still smooth-skinned and ash blonde at 52 — clearly didn’t have to work, but was always glad to share talk of her beloved Red Sox, gardening and a growing enthusiasm for target shooting.—Despite the challenges, the trappings of Lanza’s life in Newtown were comfortable. When she and then-husband Peter Lanza moved to the central Connecticut community in 1998 from southern New Hampshire, they bought a brand new 3,100-square-foot colonial set on more than two acres in the Bennett’s Farm neighborhood. Nancy Lanza had previously worked as a stock broker at John Hancock in Boston and her husband was a successful executive.

When the couple divorced in 2009, he left their spacious home to Nancy Lanza and told her she would never have to work another day in her life, said Marsha Lanza of Crystal Lake, Ill., Lanza’s aunt. The split-up was not acrimonious and Adam spent time with both his mother and father, she said.

Those who knew Nancy Lanza recall her as very generous, often giving money to those she met and doing volunteer work.

When a mutual friend sought a loan from an acquaintance, Jim Leff, and Leff asked for collateral, Lanza intervened.

“Nancy overheard the discussion, and, unblinkingly, told him she’d just write him a check then and there,” Leff recalled on his blog in a post after Lanza’s death. “While I’m far from the most generous guy in the world, it’s not often that I feel stingy. But I learned something from that. I should have just written him the check. She was right.”

Mark Tambascio recalled the time Lanza invited him and his brother to attend a Boston Red Sox game, buying them tickets atop the outfield wall known as the Green Monster, and refusing any talk of repayment….Neighbors knew her from the monthly gathering of women who rotated between homes for games of the dice game bunko. Lanza enthused about gardening, while poking fun of the fact that few could see the result because her house was set back from the road on a low rise, partly cloaked by trees.

“She used to give me a hard time, you know, because I put out all these Christmas lights, and she said, ‘I put out mine, too, but you can’t even see them,'” said Rhonda Cullens, who lives one street over.

Lanza also began telling friends that she’d bought guns and had taken up target shooting, John Tambascio said.”

Seems from your baseless accusations, your post is the only thing that comes from a deranged fringe group.

Question: is it a particular political party or all State / Federal Government that you feel this way about?

The Feds are the main source of sleazy politics.
It varies from state to state.

The Democrats have become the universal god wannabe party but at the same time Rino Republicans are Democrat wannabes.
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She was a sport shooter but she knew she had a problem child.

I do not know specifics so I am not going to say what she may have done correctly or incorrectly as how parents can, or cannot, raise their own problem children varies from state to state.
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Thank you for your complete reply.

Never. If I ever become so de-humanised (or “intelligent”? :confused:) that I can accept brutal mass-murders of primary school children as “just something that happens,” then they can take me outside and shoot me. I guess you’ve neatly proved my point though about these massacres being seen as a price worth paying for America to keep its lethal toys. I really have better ways of spending my time than wasting it on rubbish like this, so I’m out.

You think so eh?

When I was this youths age we could and did bring shot gun into the school to keep in our lockers so they would not be stolen out of a car.
The school was on the City limits and it was excellent duck, goose and pheasant hunting nearby.

Punks like this murderer were taken care of by being put in special classes (that liberals killed because it stigmatized the slow and strange) so educators could see problems often ahead of time; at the same time parent s were not jailed for disciplining or raising them as they saw fit.
Two friends of mine ( one older and a good friend of my sister) were considered hoods, but they both graduated from high school and did not end up in jail because older brothers took them behind the shed and explained thing to them, with their fists if necessary, when they got out of hand.
The father of one had died early and the other father was too in love with booze.

Nowadays, as my sister found out the hardest way, the government decides how you can treat your children. (which for her meant that if the child got out of hand she either called the police to deal with the child or faced jail time for child abuse)

Guns are not a/the problem; the god wannabe sleaze that is elected IS the problem.
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A major problem in discussing this with persons from the U.K. is they are ignorant of what it is truly like over here in general, much less how extremely different societies can be only a few hundred miles from one another.
Ignorance is bliss and it seems that persons on the other side of the pond are full of bliss while saying the U.S. of A. should do X, Y or K while not have the slightest bleeding idea of that of which they speak.

Oh well, Merry Christmas!

Different situation different attacker.

If the guy was strong enough to attack 2 people and had his blood lust up then it may have ended up the same if they had had a gun.

The elderly gent who shot the man in a closet probably was VERY lucky,another assailant may have removed the gun from him and used it against him.

If you read the post on the article, you saw that the man– had time– to get the tool.
Had he had a gun he could have shot the man from a distant point before the attacker ever got close.

You are repeating the same sky-is-falling talking points that the U.S. anti crowd trots out continually, even though statistics show this is a fallacy.

The other man you were speaking of was an ex-ranger and unlike the TV shows where such people are shown as addled fools, many old vets I know can still throw a solid punch and still know how to shoot quickly and accurately.
Luck had nothing to do with it.

So it doesn’t really matter that 20 young kids are blown to smithereens, because they were going to die sooner or later anyway? Ye Gods…

It happens, deal with it, in an intelligent manner.

Such a manner does not include the sky-is-falling rhetoric and passing laws that only affect law abiding citizens while criminals laugh at the arrogance shown by poliiticans as they pass their new laws they do not give a damn about while being as useful as teats on a bore.

I really don’t see the point in these arguments about whether, technically, a weapon is legally or illegally held. More weapons in circulation (compared to elsewhere) = more chance of one falling into the wrong hands =more American children slaughtered. Until America has the collective balls to face up to this simple but unpalatable fact and begin reining in gun ownership, it will just go on and on. As I’ve said here before -and I’m still waiting for someone to disprove or even deny it.—You are rationalizing and one can never disprove what the rationalizing person cannot prove.
You start dying the day you are born, some die at earlier ages due to nasty, whether crime or disease, circumstances.
That is life, as humanity never changes, neither will that fact.

As an aside, I read recently that Lyndon Johnson had on his Texas ranch a “40ft high hunting blind flanked by banks of powerful searchlights that Johnson would switch on, blinding his prey (usually a deer, I believe) for an easy shot.” Can someone please explain to me how that is in any way “sport” and not just blood lust?

That is called hunting for meat.
No different from going to a super-market other than at the at the market the meat is already butchered.
Sport is not involved.
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ZRX:
I wonder if any of the persons here who dislike U.S. firearm laws will the responses to the article far enough down to see the one where an anti-firearm person’s home was broken into, the male attacked the intruder who was attacking his wife, with a fireplace poker which the goblin used to beat the man and his wife to death.
Que sera-sera.

Whoa! Go easy with the red ink there!

I think you really need to go back and read some of my posts; I am not your enemy here. This is a discussion forum, for discussing things, what I write here is my opinion plus a few ‘facts’ (which you may dispute) that I have gathered to try to get a better understanding of what I am discussing.

At the end of the day my opinion will not make one iota of difference to gun-control in the United States of America.

No one here is my enemy but you must have a point, by listing massacre details so what do they show by your opinion.
You listed them minus details of the details, there must be a reason.

That is not red, that is maroon, the color of our highway patrol cars. I will go a darker shade, which is more correct now that mixing custom paint is so expensive.
This is RED

The Sandy Hook school shootings were carried out with a point-223-caliber Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle (with a 30 round magazine) but the perpetrator also had a 10mm Glock semi-automatic pistol, and a 9mm SIG Sauer P226 semi-automatic pistol.

All were legally-owned, by the perpetrator’s mother (so, technically, these could be classed as ‘stolen’)—-Hmm, he murdered his mother so they could technically be called stolen, wow, ya think eh?

The perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shootings on April 16th 2007 used a Walther P22 semi-automatic pistol and a Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol to kill his thirty-two victims. Both were bought legally by the perpetrator (despite existing gun-control laws regarding those with a history of mental-illness).—- Good reason for passing more laws that only the legally abiding citizens are controlled by.

The perpetrators of the Columbine High School shootings on April 20th 1999 were armed with a 12-gauge Savage-Springfield 67H pump-action shotgun (fired 25 times), a Hi-Point 995 Carbine 9mm carbine with thirteen 10-round magazines (fired 96 times), a 9mm Intratec TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol (fired 55 times) with one 52-, one 32-, and one 28-round magazine and a 12-gauge Stevens 311D double-barreled sawn-off shotgun. Thirteen people were killed with these weapons which, although gun-control laws were broken, the perpetrators purchased rather than ‘stole’.—- [COLOR=”#800000″] How Firearm(s) Acquired

Robyn Anderson, a friend of Klebold and Harris, bought the shotguns and the Hi-Point 9mm Carbine. Because Anderson purchased the guns for someone else, the transition constituted an illegal “straw purchase.” Klebold and Harris bought the TEC-DC9 from a pizza shop employee named Mark Manes, who knew they were too young to purchase the assault pistol, but nevertheless sold it to them for $500.[/COLOR]

OK, the point of your post is?