Tag Archives: Adam Lanza
Guns Are Not the Ultimate Cause of Mass Killings
Guns or Family Dysfunction Cause of Mass Killings?
With each horrific mass killing, “progressives” preach against guns. Again and again, when a man mows down innocent people, liberals put gun-ownership in their sights, which is like looking at the problem of teens who cut themselves and angrily proclaiming that the problem is easy access to razor blades. Women have access to guns too. If guns were the problem, then why aren’t any mass killers women?
Of course, gun control and the Left’s obsession with killing the Second Amendment by a thousand regulatory cuts are political issues, but if the Left truly cared about protecting society from gun violence, …
Was Family Breakdown a Factor in Connecticut Shooting?
I’ve watched hours of coverage of the horrific school shooting in Connecticut. I’m dumbfounded that in all the discussions of possible contributing factors, I have yet to hear one “expert” suggest that perhaps his parents’ marital discord and subsequent divorce, his father’s remarriage, and the absence of his father may have affected the mind and heart of the deeply disturbed Adam Lanza.
His older brother left for college when Adam was 14, a period during which his parents’ marriage was unraveling. One report said that these experiences were very difficult for Adam, although they were not identified as possible contributing …