In reply to: In all seriousness, posted by Wooderson
and bought him guns as gifts.
BEFORE THE SHOOTING
His mother, Nancy Lanza, a gun enthusiast, legally obtained and registered a large collection of weapons and would often take her sons to shooting ranges.
DEC. 14, 2012
Mr. Lanza used his mother’s guns to kill her and 26 others.
I've seen reports that she took her son to the range. I've never seen a report that states that she gifted him the firearms that he used at Sandy Hook. In fact, all of the reports that I have seen state that he killed his mother and used her guns to murder people.
Not sure it matters.
I admit I'm more sensitive about this particular event because I've seen first hand what it's done to the families and people involved. I'm gonna bow out of this one.
If the Sandy Hook shooter did not legally purchase the weapons, then he didn’t.
My family is intimately bound up with the victims of that shooting. This is not theoretical for me. Nevertheless we need to stick to facts when we discuss emotionally charged issues.
For my part, I continue to believe both
A) it is wrong to punish innocent gun owners for the misuse of other guns by other persons; and
B) the mass shooting phenomenon merits a policy response.
“Make ... sense of it.”