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The shooter in this tragedy had gun safety classes and logged in a lot of time on the shooting range. We can see how well that worked. Your idea is just about as stupid and short-sighted as the come.
Does the age matter? The kid had very obvious long-term emotional issues, and his mother actually encouraged him to get his hands on deadly weapons.
What, you think those emotional issues would have been less severe if she had taught him two years earlier how to to empty a clip on the target and reload in two seconds? Gun safety knowledge was not the kid's problem; psychiatric issues were.
Well, I guess gun training cannot cure mental illness. Thanks.
Perhaps the mentally ill should not be "mainstreamed" and fully integrated into society? Liberalism, as usual, with the best of intentions, always results in catastrophic failure, as it is a departure from common sense and experience.
Gun training for those not mentally ill, by the way, is an excellent suggestion. My mentally balanced children have been shooting since age 5 and have never had the urge to kill people, with or without firearms.
Lots of mental illness doesn't show up until after puberty so don't be so cocky about what your young children may or may not be thinking of doing when they get older. You won't know every thing that is on their minds as they get older.
So if Adam Lanza would have learned to handle deadly weapons at an even earlier age, he would have turned out normal and those twenty kids and six school teachers would be alive today? What planet are you living on?
The obvious issue smacking you in the face is that as soon as he started to display serious emotional issues, he should have never been allowed to even look at a gun again.
Lots of mental illness doesn't show up until after puberty so don't be so cocky about what your young children may or may not be thinking of doing when they get older. You won't know every thing that is on their minds as they get older.
The onset of schizophrenia is usually in the early twenties; perhaps this young man's problems were of recent onset. I can't imagine the utter despair of the brother and father; I don't know how one would recover from being an unwilling part of such a heinous crime.
Only the insane want children to lose their childhood to a gun culture.
100% agree. Conservatives used to at least pretend to come up with reasoned arguments to support their culture of weaponization; now they're just going all out with the unbridled craziness.
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The kid had very obvious long-term emotional issues, and his mother actually encouraged him to get his hands on deadly weapons. 
