Posted on 12/16/2012 6:08:28 AM PST by expat1000
All the regulations that are meant to prevent “tragedies like these” from happening don’t really work that well. Like most prohibitionist efforts, they are limited by the practical matter of human cleverness. People can and do find ways around most regulations if they really want to. A wall of regulations cannot stop a killer. Only armed people can stop an armed man.
A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation says the three guns found at the shooting site were legally purchased by Nancy Lanza, the mother of the suspect in the shooting.
And no background check would have found anything wrong with Nancy Lanza. The man who might have been flagged by the background check never had to go through it.
Same with teenagers sneaking their father’s booze or getting someone to go into the convenience store for them. How many gang members are carrying legally? All these regulations aren’t for society’s safety but for more money into the government’s pocket.
You can legally buy an AR-15 in CT - sans say a bayonet lug and a flash suppressor. Or if she bought it pre-ban.
Why weren’t the weapons secured in a safe?
Sounds like the mother was well off financially. If she was a responsible gun owner she should have had a gun safe. Given her son had problems that should have been a no-brainer.
“Yep. This tragedy would not have been prevented at all as the Mother legally purchased the guns. The amount of guns purchased is irrelevant to the story because even one gun would have resulted in the same outcome. I really wish lawmakers would look at this realistically. The kid was a dooshbag and leave it at that.”
The reality is that this fact hurts our side, rather than helps it.
It bolsters the left’s argument that “background checks are not enough” — that is to say, the only way to keep guns “out of the hands of criminals” will be to end their sale, altogether. And too many of the public will swallow this pill whole. Same for politicians (even Republican ones) looking to “get the pressure off their backs”.
This will be used against us.
How about annual background checks on teachers. Any teachers with crazy family members lose their teaching license. Problem solved with inverse lib logic.
Well, that settles it. We have to outlaw guns. < \idiot obama mentality>
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