MacCruiskeen wrote:I don't know why you insist on blurring the crystal-clear distinction between a motive and a justification, because you're surely aware of it.
I didn't mean to blur any distinctions. My apologies if that's what happened.
As I pointed out in my list above, lots of people have been motivated to mass murder random persons largely and completely unknown to them on the basis of no or right-next-to-no pretext whatsoever. Within the field of mass murderers, it's common for the motive to be very nearly without meaning. I have no doubt that a variety of possible motives will be posited for the shootings in Connecticut - some have been suggested already: Nancy was going to move Adam to yet another new school, Nancy had a new boyfriend, Adam was jealous in some way of the children, Adam hated to be touched and would get angry, etc. What I am saying is that when Lt. Vance announces the police theory or theories as to the "why" of the actions of Adam Lanza (and we know he will), no matter what they are based upon, from the flimsiest to the most firm groundings, the motive put forth will not satisfy us in terms of a justification. And it will then be ripe for dismissal and mockery from those for whom no evidence is enough and any motive ridiculous enough to discount. I mean, I fully expect and understand that. But any motive for such a killing is going to sound absurd. It is the provence of the insane to shoot one's mother four times in the head and slaughter random children. So in the end, if motivation is tied to mental disorder, I won't be surprised.
I expect the motive to eventually have to do with jealousy, myself, given the extreme passion of the first killing. Nancy Lanza was a very attractive, very rich woman with a twenty-year-old son. She had just returned from a two day trip here:
...during which she left her troubled son to his own devices. I'd be very surprised if she didn't attract the attentions of men. But that's purely free speculation from me, in the same way that lupercal is free to speculate that this was a covert op to keyword highjack Hurricane Sandy or false flag to distract from the pressures of the Benghazi attacks. I consider such conjecture to be a useless groping for meaning where there may be none we can fathom, though.
Adam Lanza was found in the school dressed to kill, in possession of the weapons which shot the dead and wounded. These weapons were found to belong to his slain mother's collection of firearms. He was found dead from a self-inflicted wound to the head. He had a well known history of mental problems, of school difficulties, of issues of socialization, and yet his mother felt it was a good idea to familiarize him with the handling of guns. You can only dismiss this record by positing a massive conspiracy, which you and the Hookers of the free world are free to do. More than free, I'd say - obligated, more like, by the knowledge of the conspiracies known to us in fact. Your incredulity is a service, and I thank you for it, if only in that it allows me to evaluate my own thoughts on the matter under the light of your suspicions.
