I found another article at the Daily Star:
Daily Star: Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: News :: Mum tried to put massacre gunman Adam Lanza in mental hospital
Quoting from it:
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And it is said the loner was furious that she wanted him sent away from the home they shared in Newtown, Connecticut.
Family friend Joshua Flashman, 25, said: “Adam was aware of her plans to have him committed and he was apparently very upset about this.
“From what I understand, he was really, really angry. I think this could have been what set him off.”
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Scott Creighton, an author who has written a fair amount regarding 9/11 (I don't always agree with him, but I respect him) and who has written another article on the Sandy Hook killings which I brought up here earlier, weighs in on Joshua Flashman:
Sandy Hook Shooting: “Fear of Being Committed” Motive Claim is Baseless « American Everyman
Quoting from his article:
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Fox “News” ran with a story that attempted to solve the missing motive puzzle that has developed in the Sandy Hook shooting event.
The story was told to them by
Joshua Flashman, “retired”? marine (he’s 25), muscle head and wannbe actor.
And, oh yeah, he claims to be a supporter of 2nd amendment rights, but wait to you see how he supports those rights. He thinks cops and “retired” Marines get to have guns and everyone else can only after going through some kind of “screening’ and training in their states. Everybody else is a “scumbag” who don’t have any 2nd amendment rights.
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By the way, that linked twitter account has been suspended. I, atleast, am curious as to why. In any case, the article continues:
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First off, here is the Fox ‘news” story which purports to answer the troubling question of the missing motive of Adam Lanza.
Adam Lanza, 20, targeted Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown after killing his mother early Friday because he believed she loved the school “more than she loved him,” said Joshua Flashman, 25, who grew up not far from where the shooting took place. Flashman, a U.S. Marine, is the son of a pastor at an area church where many of the victims’ families worship.
“From what I’ve been told, Adam was aware of her petitioning the court for conservatorship and (her) plans to have him committed,” Flashman told FoxNews.com. “Adam was apparently very upset about this. He thought she just wanted to send him away. From what I understand, he was really, really angry. I think this could have been it, what set him off.”
Fox “news’
The problem with this story is that Joshua Flashman has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about. Who says that? Joshua Flashman says that:
11h Joshua Flashman @JoshuaFlashman
@soderstromk @jimchap @G33kspeak I told a reporter what the people in town were saying about Adam Lanza’s motive, & next thing I know, I’m ”intimately aquainted” with the Lanza family and knew Adam’s motives first hand. Funny, I didn’t know that!
Basically Joshua repeated a rumor he may or may not have even heard and told it to a Fox reporter and here we are. Though it was insinuated that Joshua was close enough to the Lanza family to have some insight into their personal troubles, he actually didn’t know Adam or the mother but did in fact know Ryan, Adam’s older brother...
“I knew OF Adam Lanza. I was aquainted with his older brother Ryan growing up, because he was my age and my grade. I saw the Lanzas around town, and Adam was always just Ryan’s awkward little brother.”
Joshua Flashman
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Also of note, the guy wrote an article for CNN’s IReport back in July of this year in which he claims to support the 2nd amendment, but when you read it, he’s not really all that supportive of it.
His thesis is that cops and ex-military people get to have guns. That’s nice huh? Since he “retired’ from the Marines I guess he gets a gun.
And then he says other citizens can have guns IF they get screened by their state somehow and attend “training” to be part of what he calls the “unofficial militia”. After that screening and subsequent “training” the 2nd amendment is upheld.
But just being a citizen and expecting to have the right to bear arms?
No. Not according to Joshua.
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Joshua's notions on gun control sounds similar to
Hitler's gun legislation in 1938, the year before he started World War II, although Germany's law is certainly quite explicit as to who could have a gun:
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The 1938 German Weapons Act, the precursor of the current weapons law, superseded the 1928 law. ...the law restricted ownership of firearms to "...
persons whose trustworthiness is not in question and who can show a need for a (gun) permit." Under the new law:
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The groups of people who were exempt from the acquisition permit requirement expanded. Holders of annual hunting permits, government workers, and NSDAP party members were no longer subject to gun ownership restrictions. Prior to the 1938 law, only officials of the central government, the states, and employees of the German Reichsbahn Railways were exempted.[5]
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Jews were forbidden from the manufacturing or dealing of firearms and ammunition.[6]
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Anyway, continuing with the article:
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[Joshua states in an article at CNN:]
“Also, possession and carrying of battlefield/rare/exotic weapons by a non military, law enforcement, and/or state militia members should result in SEVERE, FEDERAL criminal penalties, without ANY possibilty of plea bargaining or parole. You want to dissuade someone from trying to get their hands on something you don’t want them to have? Tell them you’re going to take away their freedom for 25 to life, with no flexibility or leniency in sentencing and administration of corrections. The same punishment will be applied to anyone who KNOWINGLY sells, gives, transfers, or otherwise supplies a battlefield weapon to an unqualified individual…
Furthermore, it saturates the public square with well-armed, well-trained, certified good guys, and dramatically lowers the readily available firepower of the scumbags.” ...
Joshua Flashman
So being a cop or a “retired” duck-faced Marine makes you a “certified good guy” and as long as you are approved by some committee in the state you can join them. But if you are a “scumbag” then you have no second amendment rights.
That’s not really what the term “right” means, Joshua. Scott Creighton then goes on to quote some information from
Little Green Footballs. I'll quote some of what he quoted, along with my own selection:
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This article in no way is meant to suggest that all miltary members will become serial killers or mass murderers. It does point out a serious problem with what is happening in our armed forces and seeks a solution to help the brave men and women on their return back home.
According to the July 30, 2007 issue of The Nation magazine, damning photos of a U.S. Soldier using a spoon to literally scoop out the brains of a dead Iraqi and pretending to eat the gray matter were recently acquired.
Of course, everyone is appropriately appalled and make all claims of disgust and finger-wagging. Research shows, however, that such unacceptable behavior happens more often than the United States military wants you to know.
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The list of serial killers and mass murderers who have spent time in the military is astounding.
Here are just a few of the more memorable individuals who received the best training in the United States military and returned to prowl our country's streets and commit terrorist attacks of a different nature:
Charles Whitman - former Marine sniper who killed his wife, mother, and then proceeded to the University of Texas Tower and picked off sixteen people using his sniping skills.
Dean Corll - former Army man and serial killer known as the "Candy Man" who killed at least 27 young boys and buried them in a storage facility in Houston, Texas.
David Berkowitz AKA "The Son of Sam" - New York serial killer and former Army vet who shot and killed at least six people during the 1970s.
Jeffrey Dahmer - former Army vet and Milwaukee cannibal who murdered at least sixteen young boys and men. He performed experiments on some of the victims and ate others.
Timothy McVeigh (pictured above) - Former Gulf War Army vet responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing.
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“21-year-old West Texas Army Pvt. Steven Green described shooting a man who refused to stop at an Iraqi checkpoint: “It was like nothing. Over here, killing people is like squashing an ant. I mean, you kill somebody, and it’s like, ‘All right, let’s go get some pizza,’” he told the military newspaper Stars & Stripes. “I mean, I thought killing somebody would be this life-changing experience. And then I did it, and I was like, ‘All right, whatever.’”
Green was eventually discharged from the military due to a “personality disorder.” He was also charged with the rape of a teenage Iraqi girl and the slaughter of her entire family, including a five-year old girl.”
Little Green Footballs[/INDENT]
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John Allen Muhammad (“The Beltway Sniper”),
Arthur Shawcross...
Randy Kraft,
Dennis Rader (“BTK”),
Howard Unruh,
Robert Lee Yates,
Gary Heidnik,
Charles Cullen,
Charles Ng,
Henry Louis Wallace,
Julian Knight,
Courtney Mathews &
David Housler,
Daryl Keith Holton,
Wayne Adam Ford,
Richard Marc Evonitz, etc.
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