Jim - 12/17/2012 10:43

In the case of the tragedy at Sandy Hook elementary school, I believe there is a good chance that this mass murder would not have happened if the deranged kid had not had ready and available access to the weapons and ammo his mother had in their house, legally, for some reason.

You can say he would have obtained them elsewhere, however that is not very likely.  As I understand it from news reports, there is no evidence this was a long term planned crime. More likely an impulsive thing after an altercation with his mother and he just snapped. Weapons were available and he used them.

Not discussed yet is the sad fact tat as happens all to often, the person who purchased and owned this arsenal of weapons and ammo was killed, not by some unknown feared home invader, but by someone she knew and with her own weapons. If she had say a pistol for "self defense" her son might have still killed her but is unlikely to have caused as many deaths at the school as he did.

Jim