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Where is the brother in all this? Has he said anything? He apparently was also given gun access when he lived at home.
He moved out to NJ in 2010. He was the one first accused of the shooting.
He's already been interviewed by police and released. Had nothing to do with this.
You don't know that. For all you know his mother could have been shot dead because she wouldn't give him access.
I think if he did have easy access then he wouldn't have tried to buy is own gun and could have taken the guns when his mother wasn't around.
We'll never know though because he shot his mother dead before going on his rampage.
Well if he didn't get his hands on any guns at all those 20 kids who he killed would be alive today. No matter how you cut it, access to guns was the ultimate factor in this and several other mass murders in America's history. How is it you never hear things like this happening in Canada?
Yeah. Because a couple of trained, armed staff members would have been killing more children rather than trying to take out the bad guy.
There's no guarantee had there been armed staff that the result would have been better. But there is at least a chance. That's better than nothing.
Bad guys aren't dumb. If we put armed guards at the doors, instead of trying to get into the schools they'd just wait until classes are over and the kids are mostly outside and waiting to get on to buses. How many armed guards is an acceptable number to keep at each school? Arming the staff? Along with every thing else they're required to know to get their degrees you want to add marksmanship to the list? I think its a lousy idea.
And if armed staff had managed to shoot him after 1.5 minutes?
I'm not saying it's a guarantee. I'm saying when you have a situation where you have a nutjob loose with a firearm in an area where there are a lot of people, it seem smarter to have some armed good guys in the same general vicinity, as opposed to guaranteeing the nutjob will have no opposition.
That "community" is comprised of almost 25,000 people that you seem to be judging based on your ex-Husband.
I'm just tired of Newtown being portrayed as a lovely place to live. Perhaps for people of a particular demographic and mindset, but not so much for others...
There are currently approximately 300 million legally possessed firearms in this country. That is just a rough estimate from the FBI.. The emphasis is on legally here.. No-one has any idea of how many guns there are illegally in this country.. Tell me, how many prisons do you intend to build? How many lives are you willing to sacrifice confiscating these firearms? A mass confiscation would make all the tragedys we have seen minute by comparison..
I don't believe that it would increase the prison population significantly. My goal would be to see them in prison before they hurt someone. Once a kid shoots up his school, he is going to spend the rest of his life in prison, anyway. I'd rather see him go to prison first on an illegal weapons change, rather then on multiple homicide charges later.
If it does swell the prison population, I'd be in favor of releasing drug offenders, to make more room. I'm more concerned about guns, then I am drugs.
As for mass confiscation, I wouldn't be in favor of that. Just make them illegal, and let the police deal with them as they find them.
Her former sister-in-law Marsha said she had turned her home ‘into a fortress’. She added: ‘Nancy had a survivalist philosophy which is why she was stockpiling guns. She had them for defense.
‘She was stockpiling food. She grew up on a farm in New Hampshire. She was skilled with guns. We talked about preppers and preparing for the economy collapsing.’
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