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Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Here's some breaking news I saw MSNBC this morning that I haven't seen reported anywhere in the print media yet. NBC reporter Pete Williams reported on Chuck Todd's The Daily Rundown that (police) 'had been hopeful that they could extract some information from the computer at (Lanza's) home. He was very into computers. Before he left his mother's house on the morning that he shot his mother while she was sleeping, he damaged extensively his computer. He took the hard drive out, pulled the disk out, and did a lot of damage to it,' said Williams. 'It's not clear that (police) are going to be able to extract any information or not.' It has previously been reported that Lanza left no online footprint. Police had been eager to examine Lanza's computer in hopes of determining a motive in his killings or finding records of purchases of firearms and ammunition. 'If he visited certain websites, they are going to glean whatever information they can from that and see what it means,' said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly. 'Does he have friends he communicates with online? Was there a fight with somebody?'"
They can still put the hard drive back together and pull out information. Facebook has everything on him. Google tracked what he searched and what websites he visited. The fingerprints on his keyboard and they way the letters are worn will show which keys he used most and they can determine his passwords to his accounts. The NSA and DHS has been tracking him, and everyone else in the country, and knows his exact whereabouts for the last several years. Yes, I've seen CSI.
So, if I thermite my HDD, everything I've ever done or said online (i.e., stored anywhere but my local drive) magically falls into the bit bucket?
Bullshit.
Cops need to get off their lazy asses and start serving the three-letter-agencies (NSA, CIA, DHS, all the other panoptic asshats) with warrants.
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If Europe and Australia are any indication, violent crime actually goes up following crackdowns on private ownership. Gun crime goes up. Murder rates don't go down.. So following a gun ban, you and your family are no less likely to be murdered, but significantly more likely to be victims of violent crime and/or gun crime. No thanks.
The stories and info posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only fools would take it as fact.
Australia banned automatic rifles after several mass shootings and since then, they have had none.
But hey, why let actual facts stand in the way of you rant.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
If he hadn't shot those people...
If his mother had secured her guns and raised him better...
If the various shrinks had spotted the signs...
If the US govt had banned automatic weapons...
If James Madison hadn't written such a shit amendment...