Merchant_of_Meh
Child of the Keywork
I personally don't believe guns are the problem. The people that use them are the problem.
We have exams for people who want to drive cars and fly planes, which are equally as dangerous as guns....and yet guys like this are afforded easy access to everything they need to do what they did. Why is that?
Why is America able to track anyone on the face of the earth who we view as a threat to our security as a nation, and yet we can't even develop a system to prevent or if that fails, track mentally unstable people.
Taking away guns is not the answer. Taking away the ease by which guys like Lanza obtain these guns is what needs to happen.
As I understand it, Lanza stole the guns from his mother... so what you're proposing wouldn't have prevented him from shooting up the school...
Your point falls directly in line with the last sentence of my post. When I'm referring to the ease at which guns can be obtained, I'm not just talking about the gun laws.
As a gun owner, the responsibility for securing those guns fell on his mother. Her death in and of itself is tragic, but had she done more to secure the guns from her son, it may well would've prevented him from doing what he did, since no one was going to legally sell him guns at his age. This still leaves the chance of him obtaining them illegally, but its hard to say how successful he may have been with that.