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Where did the shooter get the first gun that he used to kill his mother? Did his mother lock up her guns properly? If not, she certainly should have kept those guns locked up securely considering the severity of her son's mental problems. Lanza's mother may have enabled this massacre by not locking up her guns securely.

Regarding Mayor Bloomberg's comments: If the killer had instead stolen a UPS delivery truck and killed 26 people by driving it into a classroom, would Bloomberg be calling for tighter controls on commercial trucks? Of course not...instead he's be calling for improved mental health programs and more research into drugs to help mentally ill people. It's so obvious, but I'll say it again: If we make ownership of guns illegal, then only criminals will own guns and criminals of course do not follow the law and will use their guns to terrorize and slaughter the disarmed law-abiding people. Enough said...now settle down Bloomberg and try some logical thinking for a change. Possibly we need a way to prevent mentally-ill people from buying guns, but that has to be done very carefully with a strict definition of who is really mentally ill.

A drunk driver killed 26 people when he drove the wrong way on I-71 in Kentucky and hit a schoolbus, back in the 1980s I think it was. I think most of those killed were children but older than the ones killed yesterday in Connecticut. Of course the driver didn't intend to do it, but his victims were still dead. Having laws against driving drunk didn't stop him.

Adam Lanza may have killed more children deliberately yesterday than the 9/11 terrorists did--there were a few children on the planes which were hijacked, but the people in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon at the time were virtually all adults--were as many as 20 children among the victims on 9/11?

Before that you have to go back to the attack on the Branch Davidian compound in 1993...but Bill Clinton wasn't pulling the trigger at close range to kill the children like Adam Lanza was. I don't know what the breakdown was for the Oklahoma City bombings, how many were children and how many adults.