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School gunman wanted to join Marines – but mom said no: report

Doubtful he would have made them “proud.”

School massacre gunman Adam Lanza wanted to join the Marines, according to a new report.

And if he couldn’t join the Marines, he planned to sign up for a different branch of the military, according to the Connecticut Post.

Family friend Ellen Adriani, of Newtown, told the newspaper that the antisocial son told his mother, Nancy Lanza, of his plans and that, at first, mom supported his enthusiasm.

According to the report, Nancy Lanza thought the military would “give him purpose, a career path and structure.”

However, the mother soon changed her mind, the report continues.

“It became overwhelmingly clear to her that it (military service) wasn’t right for him,” Adriani said. “She squashed” any notion of Adam joining the Marines or any branch of the armed services by reminding him “that he didn’t like to be touched,” said Adriani, and that if he were injured, “doctors and medics would have to handle him to treat him.”

A shopkeeper who knew the Lanzas said the mad shooter dreamed of joining the military after he stopped taking college-courses, the report continues.

Yesterday, it was reported that Adam Lanza spent two days home alone preparing for his Connecticut schoolhouse massacre after his mother went away on a mini-vacation.

Nancy Lanza checked into the Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, NH, at 12:10 p.m. Tuesday, and left around the same time Thursday.

The drive is about 4 1/2 hours, so she would have arrived back home in Newtown late in the afternoon or early evening, according to Headline News — just hours before Adam shot her dead in her bed before the Friday morning rampage that killed 20 first-graders and six educators.

He was armed with a Bushmaster .223-caliber assault rifle and two handguns, a Sig Sauer 9mm and a Glock 10mm, all belonging to his mom.

News of Nancy Lanza’s getaway came as a funeral home in her New Hampshire hometown called to “discreetly” claim her body, the medical examiner said.

Meanwhile, investigators said they have been able to pull salvageable information from computers at the gunman’s home.

“Every day we learn a little bit more, both from the computer and from talking to people,” said a law enforcement official.