Adam Lanza's father Peter Lanza Peter Lanza has a broken his silence he gave
an interview to The New Yorker where he talked about his son and the Newtown
Connecticut shooting that took place
December 2012 now he talks about how he wishes his son was never bored which is
obviously an understandable perspective giving what his son given what his son
is done
he also says the following: any variation on what I did and how my
relationship
was had to be good because no outcome could be worse you can get anymore evil
how much do I beat
on myself about the fact that he's my son
a lot he had Aspergers aspirin only as only the violence or anything like that
great but that the father is worth it it was masking schizophrenia
I bring that up in the context of the word evil
I've always thought that was on weird and uncomfortable word
right neither it people don't do incredibly bad things
so that we would normally put put in the category evil
but like this kid is a disaster
you can't condemn him anymore than everybody's already condemned them
I'll it seems weird for a father to say that he was
evil he obviously had significant monumental meant mental illness
it doesn't this accord Accord excuses behaviors not like
okay pat on the back is already dead he shot himself right
but police I could not like he was possessed by the devil I mean yes such a
weird word there don't you think I think evil is usually
I'm a word that's used when you can't really explain what's happening it's
kind of like
and easy way of explaining something right so it's bothered us go into
specifics like his social awkwardness which are read to you in just a second
but I agree with you I don't think that he just had Aspergers and I like that
you mention that ass burgers is not associated with violent behavior
whatsoever to form about Islam
but there might have been something there that was undiagnosed
and the most frustrating part about all that is the fact that he had
the access to the guns and his own family's mother right
been taught him how to shoot a gun and she had the guns laying around knowing
that his son had some significant issues
now according to his father it was crystal clear something was wrong
the social awkwardness the uncomfortable anxiety unable to sleep stress
unable to concentrate having a hard time learning the awkward walk reduced I
contact
you could see the changes occurring and he says that he started noticing those
changes early as middle school
yeah now it's interesting as in the beginning he said you just hope
normal kid you know it as far as they could tell
and then these changes began a record-setter so that's what Lisa work
with the
second interesting thing here which is if you're the dad.
do you then say I wish I never had a ok
I mean to a certain degree obviously cause anyone to kill all those people in
your ex wife and himself
et cetera but I feel like what happened to was clearly some sort of Ellis
like to me a guy like OJ simpson is more evil
because he doesn't have any schizophrenia or anything like that you
just pissed
a and his from ex-wife in lover
presumably allegedly okay we know he was acquitted
he's in jail for something else now because their head of three
does it for personal reasons and then you know and then he didn't seem like
afterwards smiling playing golf having the time of his life
et cetera to me a that's more cold calculating it surrounds his own
10 you know millions example use as was a guy like this was clearly mentally
unbalanced
and violent because of that not that mentally unbalanced people are violent
in general but he was
I didn't look at every word types a mental illnesses obviously so it's not
making a blanket statement about
everyone has some sort of mental illness but I would make an argument that this
is a perfect case
%uh why we need to have you know affordable
accessible health insurance mental health care that why
that way we ensure that those who do have these types of conditions
are properly diagnose properly treated
we can minimize the effects up having some sort of illness whether it's good
to bring your something else
on but in this case I mean it in I don't feel like anyone really learned a lesson
we never pass any
real gun control we didn't really do much when it comes to dealing with
I'm but needing mental health facilities
appropriately so as a result like all you can do is kinda read about this and
say
yeah here's a lesson that we could have learned that we didn't learn it is
really unfortunate
lapierre lands is an incredibly hard spot and
and I feel bad about saying this but
I and he says in his own peace look at it like in a city
I beat myself up a lot about could I have done something differently
and I'm sure that's going to be run through his head but I was so she had
written this set
I don't see much value in it we know you feel bad about any
any decent human being would and I presume already
before your order that your decent human being yeah so I didn't think that he had
to rehash this
and then call sign evil and say which he was never born
it seems like he's doing it so that people leave them alone in
and saying oh it's okay peter is not your fault or something
I just felt it was unnecessary right well there might have been a therapeutic
value to it for him so we don't know what his intentions were
right now but it's out there and we know is perspective and I think that there's
some value in knowing his perspective as well the last time he saw his son was
two years before the shooting occurred
so he had no relationship with the Sun apparently
Adam Lanza wanted nothing to do with him so they kinda cut
communication they were totally estranged I if any be mace
one I he musta gotten so much grief for this and I get it right
night and he's basically what he's doing here is this seems
distancing himself from his son Seif drivin over there and
I had simple tauruses 2010 the chains doubt
but he says I had already given better the doubt
as I read this I think like he's already dead you don't have to throw him under
the bus even more
everybody else can cause we were his dad
gray I don't know Adam Lanza I can say whatever the hell I want about it
here is that you don't have the you know do this after he's already dead
guide oh that sucks about I might be wrong about that people might feel
differently about that but that's how I felt