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Whenever a horrible tragedy like this happens, I wish a simple rule would be followed during the discussion: Any suggestions for prevention of future such incidents should be disallowed unless they would have actually have prevented the incident in question.
>”cache of high-power weapons”<
Pray tell, exactly what is a “cache”, and what is considered a “high powered weapon”, a Phaser, Disrupter, Death Star?
If that was a cache, my Family must own a National Guard Armory.
If one or both had been armed perhaps both would be alive and fewer children would be dead.
But it is not politically correct to say such obvious and logical things.
Certainly the AP would never be so crass as to mention such hurtful facts while parents are grieving. /S
he was 20 years old. That's a stressful time for most young men. Hormones are raging and they are leaving the nest. some are better prepared to leave the nest than others. Those who leave the nest unprepared for the cold cruel world are prone to falling into self destructive patterns. when they have an underlying mental disorder, those self destructive patterns can become even more destructive. throw in some holiday stress and a failed intimate relationship and bam, you have a recipe for delta male homicidal rage.
I don't think this will be the last example of delta male rage we see. Not by a long shot.
Why do I feal like I’m living in a brakken novel?
did the perp have a job?
Do you have to be 21 to purchase a firearm in Connecticut?
If so, is that why this 20-year-old had his 24-year-old brother’s ID on his body?
And did the brother, Ryan, know that Adam was using his ID to purchase guns?
What else did Ryan know?
She sounds like she might be a trifle weird too. Still why hassle a bunch of gun shops that were doing nothing they could have known to be wrong?
Why are federal agents doing ANYTHING on this case?
:Among the questions to be answered: Why did his mother, a well-to-do suburban divorcée, keep a cache of high-power weapons in the house? :
Because it was her right.
“And, above all, what set him on a path to shoot and kill 20 children, along with the adults who tried to stop him?”
Because he was a sick, evil bastard created by a society that abandoned all social norms and standards of Judaeo-Christian morality and ethics.
How about the psyco son purchasing the arms under his mother’s name for his use?
“And, above all, what set him on a path to shoot and kill 20 children, along with the adults who tried to stop him? “
No adult who lived in America 50 or more years ago would have any problem understanding the inescapable effects degraded deviant culture will eventually have.
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“cache of high-power weapons in the house?”
3 is a “cache”?
Look, when the dad leaves, the mom needs protection. If she turns to a gun, who can blame her sheesh
One thing that bothers me. I heard on FOX today that each of those kids had been shot at least eleven times.
They said there were two handguns found and a rifle in the car.
How did two guns do all that is such a short time frame because at the first shots, there were people in the school calling the cops?
Why did his mother, a well-to-do suburban divorcée, keep a cache of high-power weapons in the house?
Why not?
“Why did his mother, a well-to-do suburban divorcée, keep a cache of high-power weapons in the house?”
Why? Because she could. Because it was her God-given right, as journalized in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.
And, all the gun-grabbers, all the libtard pundits, all the progressives, communists and 0bamunists need to come to that realization.
The solution to Sandy Hook is better preparedness in a world bordering on crazy. The answer is to protect the children, and teach them the same sense of freedom, responsibility, and self-reliance that made possible this grand experiment.
“Why did his mother, a well-to-do suburban divorcée, keep a cache of high-power weapons in the house? “
Here we go with leftist hyperbole about something they know little about: I wouldn’t call a 5.56 rifle high-powered. Given the range of rifles either comes in .22 rimfire or centerfire. But more to the point: as defined by what ammo and long guns that Walmart sells, centerfire starts at .223 (or 5.56).
So, now we have one more entry in the leftist dictionary of gun politics. In addition to “assault rifle”, which is defined as any rifle that looks like an evil military rifle, we now have “high power”.
A “high-power” rifle means any caliber above 22 rimfire, irrespective of how people who are familiar with firearms would define the term.
The warning here is that he who gets to define the terms gets to control the outcome of the public discussion. So, be careful what terms you accept and how you use them, because in doing so the left gets to shift the debate towards the ends it seeks.