blueblur 0 #126 December 22, 2012 QuoteQuoteQuote Let's not confuse determined, career criminals with access to a machine shop with mentally ill people who have easy access to guns because our laws are so sloppy, piecemeal and inadequately enforced. But in this latest incident, the laws worked. Lanza tried to buy a rifle and was denied, so he went to his legal-firearm-owning mother, stole them and shot her. The greater problem is know one addressed the signs if they saw them at all. I wouldn't call stealing a gun easy access. Not like it's in the checkout line of Wal-mart next to the Snicker's bars... How do you know he "STOLE" them? She may have granted him access. After all, she did take him to the range with her. The whole STOLE bit is just a convenient excuse to make the gun lobby feel better. I guess we'll never know the truth on that one. It is an assumption on either side of that equation, I, for one, would assume that if she had a worry that he was likely disturbed and worried about him, she wouldn't have "granted him access". I've taken plenty of people to the range, my father included, none of them, however, know where or how to access any of my weapons. That's a pretty long stretch to imagine, much longer than imagining he stole the guns, which he used to kill her with. I'm reading theft in pretty much every piece of news about it. And a convenient excuse for the anti-gun lobby is that she had guns just laying around her house willy-nilly, when it is more likely, knowing she was a "prepper" as described by friends and family, that they were put away, secured or otherwise hidden. No one will ever completely know the truth as to how he acquired her guns, but it's very easy to ascertain that he acquired them without her permission and then killed her.In every man's life he will be allotted one good woman and one good dog. That's all you get, so appreciate them while the time you have with them lasts. - RiggerLee Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
