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In addition to the stockpile of weaponry, the home contained a certificate from the NRA bearing Adam Lanza's name, a NRA guide to shooting, and training manuals for various firearms, including the Bushmaster that Lanza used to carry out the slaughter. The CEO of the company that sells Bushmaster rifles sits on a powerful committee inside the NRA, as we first reported in January.
For the NRA, which has been highly effective with its messaging in the gun debate over the years, the news is a blow. The new details begin to disarm the gun group's strategy to divert attention from the highly lethal weapons Lanza used by focusing on him as just another deranged criminal with no connection to "good guys with guns." In his audacious speech a week after the Newtown massacre, NRA spokesman Wayne LaPierre talked of "genuine monsters" lurking across America, of "people so deranged, so evil, so possessed by voices and driven by demons that no sane person can possibly ever comprehend them." He continued: "They walk among us every day. And does anybody really believe that the next Adam Lanza isn't planning his attack on a school he's already identified at this very moment?"
Now we know that "next Adam Lanza" may well have NRA certification and know-how at his fingertips.
Investigators Discover NRA Materials in Newtown Killer's House | Mother Jones
For the NRA, which has been highly effective with its messaging in the gun debate over the years, the news is a blow. The new details begin to disarm the gun group's strategy to divert attention from the highly lethal weapons Lanza used by focusing on him as just another deranged criminal with no connection to "good guys with guns." In his audacious speech a week after the Newtown massacre, NRA spokesman Wayne LaPierre talked of "genuine monsters" lurking across America, of "people so deranged, so evil, so possessed by voices and driven by demons that no sane person can possibly ever comprehend them." He continued: "They walk among us every day. And does anybody really believe that the next Adam Lanza isn't planning his attack on a school he's already identified at this very moment?"
Now we know that "next Adam Lanza" may well have NRA certification and know-how at his fingertips.
Investigators Discover NRA Materials in Newtown Killer's House | Mother Jones