A tape of Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza's call to an Oregon college radio station has surfaced, in which the 20-year-old likens a chimpanzee who went on a violent rampage to "a teenage mall shooter."
In the call obtained by the New York Daily News, a man who calls himself Greg speaks for almost seven minutes concerning a chimpanzee in Connecticut named Travis who, in a crazed outburst, ripped off the face of his owner's friend.
According to the Daily News, two old friends of Adam Lanza identified "Greg" as the man who walked into a Newton, Conn. elementary school and fatally shot twenty children and six staff members on October 14, 2012.
Lanza reportedly made the call to "Anarchy Radio," a station at the University of Oregon's KWVA 88.1 FM, one year before the shooting. Speaking in a soft, articulate manner, the 20-year-old tells host John Zerzan that Travis the chimpanzee was ruined by human civilization.
"Travis wasn't an untamed monster at all. He wasn't just feigning domestication, he was civilized," Lanza says. "He was able to integrate into society...He met many different people and got along with everyone. If Travis had been some nasty monster all his life, it would have been widely reported, but to the contrary, it seems like everyone who knew him said how shocked they were that Travis had been so savage because they knew him as a sweet child."
Lanza then compares Travis' attack to human aggression.
"His attack can be seen entirely parallel to the attacks and random acts of violence that you bring up on your show every week, committed by humans, which the mainstream also has no explanation," Lanza says. "I just...don't think it would be such a stretch to say that he very well could have been a teenage mall shooter."
Kyle Kromberg, who went to the same high school with Lanza and attended a few classes with him, told the Daily News that he recognized the shooter's voice right away.
Lanza killed himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School as police officers surrounded the campus. He killed his mother Nancy at their home in Newtown that same morning.
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