NEWTOWN, Conn. — She was ‘‘a big, big gun fan’’ who went target shooting with her children, according to friends. She enjoyed craft beers, jazz, and landscaping. She was generous to strangers, but also high-strung, as if she were holding herself together.
Nancy Lanza was the first victim in a massacre carried out Friday by her son, Adam, 20, who shot her dead with a gun apparently drawn from her own collection, then drove her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed 26 people, 20 of them young children, officials said.
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Can we stop calling these gun groupings "collections", and instead call them "arsenals"? The owners like to think they're simply "collecting", but if their "collections" were called "arsenals", it might cause them to think twice about what they were amassing in their quiet suburban homes. No one to my knowledge has been killed with a stamp collection.