NY Daily News (so you know the source) has some more info on the guns and the divorce

[underpants]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/conn-gunman-learned-shoot-mom-article-1.1220893?localLinksEnabled=false

“She said she would often go target shooting with her kids,” landscaper Dan Holmes said.

Holmes, who often mowed the grass at the Lanza’s sprawling Newtown home, told Reuters the doomed mom was proud of her arsenal and once showed him a “high end rifle” she had just purchased.

Lanza’s dad, Peter, a successful financial services expert, was divorced from his mother. But it was the dad, who reportedly took the divorce hard. And he made sure his ex, and his kids, were well provided for.

Peter Lanza was paying his ex annual alimony payments that started at $240,000 and would have reached $298,800 in 2015. He left her the family home before he decamped for Stamford.

How Lanza reacted to his parents’ divorce was also unclear, but a family insider told The Daily News after the killings that they were “lovely, very generous people who were very kind to each other during the divorce.”

[NYC_SKP]

1. That seems to be a remarkably high alimony payment.

These people are not like any people I hang around with.

[Rider3]

8. My thoughts exactly

[In_The_Wind]

2. OMG

[undeterred]

3. Well, there was enough money for some good post-divorce counseling

for whoever needed it for however many years they needed it then.

[HappyMe]

4. Wtf! $240k alimony.

I didn't think they even had alimony anymore.

[zen_bohemian]

5. 240k would have gotten adam top rate medical help for his mental problems

what a shame, senseless tragedy, those poor children and their families.

[geomon666]

7. She needed the money to buy more guns

Apparently that was a bigger priority.

[Edweird]

6. So much for the sexist theories being floated by some.

[Rider3]

9. Mental Health

Seems like they had enough money to have been able to take care of their kid's mental health. These kinds of issues need to be taken much more seriously in today's world.

[TwilightGardener]

10. Two things stand out--you love guns that much, you get what

you get when it's eventually used against you. My sympathy for her is not terribly great. But it's a shame that so many other people suffered from her gun-nutty family's arsenal. Number two: since when is a twenty year old still living at home unusual and "unable to cut the cord"? I take offense at that.

[underpants]

11. That is a good point - 18 year olds are probably expected to be at college

in the circles that they appear to have lived. Every goes to a good school just as the normal matter of things. That would be my guess.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

12. This is probably not unusual in that community.

I would not be surprised to learn many of the families that lost their children also
own guns. I imagine if so, those guns are in safes. I don't know what a gun like that
costs but I don't think a family working paycheck to paycheck can afford such a collection.
Or can afford to go to the rage and shoot a few rounds, like playing freaking golf.