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Hanoman said Nancy Lanza told him she introduced guns to Adam as a way to teach him responsibility.
"Guns require a lot of respect, and she really tried to instill that responsibility within him, and he took to it. He loved being careful with them. He made it a source of pride," he said.
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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."
http://www.kpho.com/story/20359427/gunmans-mother-kept-trials-of-home-life-hidden
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)But the woman was doing the best she could as a mother with a problem child. Who, as a parent believes their child, no matter how troubled, is capable of murder?
This may shed some light on Nancy Lanza as a mother.
http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2012/12/17/15968547-friend-nancy-lanza-was-very-devoted-to-her-sons?lite
renie408
(9,854 posts)Gee, that didn't go quite according to plan, did it.
JI7
(89,264 posts)things and when we discussed guns he would say something about how GUns need to be respected.
i'm not saying this mother or son were racist and i don't think they were. but i'm just saying how i hear the stuff about guns being respected by many of these people. like what is that supposed to mean?
they are dangerous so you have to be careful with them ? the same can be said about many things. yet when it comes to guns they seem to view it in a way as if they should be worshipped. it's just odd.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)if she wanted to teach him "responsibility".
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Gregorian
(23,867 posts)The younger the better. Why a two year old with a rattler can learn respect in just a few minutes.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)JVS
(61,935 posts)Like someone upthread said, a puppy would have been a better place to start.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I mean, lets be honest; its easy to be the one who picks up the bar tab if you've got big funds coming in... and no job to worry about getting to in the morning.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)The media has been such a failure, that anything on this even should be looked at skeptically.