Most people are familiar with the Newtown shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Peter Lanza, the father of the shooter, Adam Lanza, has recently discussed his feelings and thoughts on the whole situation with the New Yorker. An article was released in USA Today about it. Many psychological themes played in to the article and what Peter Lanza had to say. The actions that Adam Lanza took that day clearly have affected him a multitude of ways and are still having impact on other peoples lives today. .
The shooting at Sandy Hook was one of the most tragic recent shootings. Adam Lanza was a twenty-year-old man who had been out of touch from his family for about two years. His massacre began with stopping at his mothers' house in Newtown and killing her. Then he made his way to Sandy Hook Elementary School shortly after. When he arrived there he had killed twenty students and six adult staff members. He shot all of his victims multiple times. A person is not in their right state of mind if they can do something this heinous without thinking twice. .
The article, "Lanza's Dad: He Would have Killed Me, too" by Gary Stoller and Doug Stanglin discusses how America needs to fight back against gun violence and come together for a positive change. This part of the article turns the mood of people because of the change they want to make on gun violence to protect innocent people from dangerous people like Adam. More importantly it contained a lot about how people changed before the shooting and after it. A lot of the changes can be related to some psychological themes and concepts when observed. These themes and concepts can impact many people. Such as myself, people involved, other readers, local communities, and society as a whole. .
Peter Lanza noticed a change in Adam, "Lanza, who had divorced Adam's mother in 2009, says his son began to change during middle school" (Stoller 2A).
