Mediator: Mom didn't like to leave gunman alone
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STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - A mediator who worked with Adam Lanza's parents during their divorce in 2009 says his mother said she didn't like to leave him alone and that his parents went out of their way to accommodate him.
Lanza killed his mother before going to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday morning and killing 20 children and six adults before taking his own life.
Marriage therapist Paula Levy recalled Monday that during about 10 two-hour sessions, Nancy and Peter Lanza were respectful of each other and concerned about their son's needs. She says the couple told her Adam Lanza had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, an autism-like disorder, and they spent considerable time talking about how to provide for his well-being.
Levy says the Lanzas agreed how to divide caretaking responsibilities and as a result said little about Adam's problems.
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Geller reported from Southbury, Conn.
Lanza killed his mother before going to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday morning and killing 20 children and six adults before taking his own life.
Marriage therapist Paula Levy recalled Monday that during about 10 two-hour sessions, Nancy and Peter Lanza were respectful of each other and concerned about their son's needs. She says the couple told her Adam Lanza had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, an autism-like disorder, and they spent considerable time talking about how to provide for his well-being.
Levy says the Lanzas agreed how to divide caretaking responsibilities and as a result said little about Adam's problems.
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Geller reported from Southbury, Conn.
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The mother wasn't very smart leaving guns & ammo that are easily accessible. Buy a gun safe. If she was really concerned about the kid, which i'm beginning to doubt, she should have locked up her guns.. if for no other reason than to keep them from being stolen -- but more so to keep them out of the hands of her son.
 @axpman Agreed.  I wonder why he took his anger out at his former school?  It is reported that his mother had disagreements with the school board.  She did take out her son and home school him. Had he over heard all this and other converstations therefore held the schools responsible for his problems.  She may have fueled a fire in is head that the schools messed him up.  Just saying. But as axpman says she wasn't at all smart leave the guns available and gee, why did she need that particular rifle and so much ammunition. She sounds a bit whacky. Certainly irresponsible.
@my2cents @axpman Because guns are fun, and a few thousand rounds of ammo is nothing, especially if you own guns of different calibers.
Will you guys stop trying to use logic with someone who doesn't own firearms? You need to use emotion and non-fact based arguments to get non-gun owners to understand
 @HuskyKMA  Exactly. Buying in bulk is usually much cheaper than buying by the box.
@my2cents @axpman Having a gun and lots of ammo don't make you crazy. Believe it or not but people like guns, and think they are fun and when you find ammo for cheap you buy a lot. It is our right as US citizens. Just because you don't own guns doesn't mean you are more sane than those who do. In reality, it makes you odd since you have no way to defend yourself
The black-and-white picture of him circulating is actually REALLY disturbing. He looks legitimately scary to me, and I'm not someone who gets frightened easily, but that photo of him has been burned into my memory and has been stuck in my head for the past several days. When you look at the photo at the top of this news story as well as some of the other pictures of him when he was a young kid, he looks harmless and cute; the recent picture, however, plainly shows a serious lapse in mental health. People's faces can tell you more than we'd like to think, and something went wrong between photos A, B, and C.
Why DID YOU CENSOR!?
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Where in hell is the Audio?
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You have a child who you don't feel can be left alone....yet you buy more weapons than you could possibly need to take down an intruder???? Sounds dysfunctional all the way around/
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Your troubled youngsters should not be able to access your weapons anymore than an intruder who has broken into your home or your car. Because THESE are the main contributors to gun tragedies.
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As gun owners and proponents we can positively change our course right now if we all commit to improving our gun safety and training, and to reevaluate the security of our own stored weapons. I'm not going to take political sides, I'm just going to ask whether we can all try to do this.
 @Playanekes Given the mother's gun ownership status, I wonder if she's actually had mental health issues of her own. In other words, it seems that she may have escalated her gun ownership after her marriage crumbled. The marriage may have even crumbled due to her own mental health issues.
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If she wasn't stable, she could have had a negative impact on her son including pulling him in to any delusion she might have suffered from.
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Now I'm not saying that was the case but it *could* be the situation. Obviously this is just a small part of the larger puzzle.
 @CTWU  @Playanekes I agree with you.  I certainly makes one wonder about her also.  And why did she keep SO much ammunition around???
 @my2cents How much ammo is it reported that she had?
 @Playanekes Sad that you'd have to ask. It should be a given.
@Playanekes I wish people would take those steps. For me, the strongest argument that can be raised regarding placing limits on firearms is raised not by high profile tragedies, but by the little tragedies that occur around the nation with unsecured or misused firearms. Many people who just shouldnât exercise their 2nd Amendment right often doing so, and they arenât smart enough to educate themselves or their children, or to secure their firearms in a reasonable fashion.
@Playanekes Some will....most will not
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 @SerenityWowz I think you are right.. Further, I don't think death deletes that responsibility..
I think she should have told the investigators and not the media.. She used very poor judgment.
@SerenityWowz For a live person, yes. Two of the parties mentioned are now deceased.
 @Kachina  @SerenityWowz But one of the parties (since, essentially the counseling was between the parents) is still very much alive. This directly violates his rights. At the very least, it is certainly unethical and I suspect this counselor is going to be up for State review soon (if not possibly sued by the father). The information provided doesn't even really shed light on anything.
 @CTWU  @Kachina  @SerenityWowz ~ I believe that the person still living can give permission for the doctor or therapist (whoever) to release info from the med records... but whether or not the father did this, or was even asked to, is another question entirely. Â