What else would you expect from a troll that can’t even spell ‘quirky’?

Missing in the various discussions of this event is the role of the father Peter Lanza. He ran away from his responsibilities. He failed to provide a baseline of moral and ethical behavior to his child. Peter Lanza might make a million bucks a year as a GE tax attorney but I see him as a piece of garbage.

Autism really had nothing to do with this (despite that fool Piers Morgan going off about it). There are over a million people (probably closer to two million) on the autism spectrum in the United States. How many autistic related murders (let alone mass murders) do you remember?

I am sure Lanza was disturbed. He may have been a victim of bullying as a child. But he was not insane in a criminal sense. He knew what he was doing was wrong. He just did not care. Adam Lanza wanted attention. He wanted to feel important. And possibly he wanted revenge. And he did so by killing first graders and kindergarten kids.

“…there were fewer crimes committed by crazy people when it was easier to send crazy people to the loony bin.”

Careful with that, the Soviets found the whoopie wagon VERY useful for rounding up troublesome opposition figures while avoiding the legal system entirely… now watch Obama come up with a ‘deal’ for Boo-Hoo Boehner were he supports locking-up more nuts if the GOP just signs-off on some new gun control… and hey, aren’t those TP clingers kind of nuts, John ?

Penn and Teller got it exactly right in their episode of their Showtime show Bullshit! when they dealt with the Second Amendment. The purpose of the Second Amendment is to keep the populace sufficiently armed so that if they have no choice but to overthrow the government, they have the firepower and armaments to do so.

Hence I disagree with your last statement. If it would be a useful weapon should the citizens need to overthrow the government, in my mind the Second Amendment says the federal government cannot deny it to us.

The musket was the AK-47 of the late 1700s. Ponder that for a while.

The massacre in CT can be laid at the feet of the our government …

Last night it also emerged Nancy was a member of the Doomsday Preppers movement, which believes people should prepare for end of the world.

Her former sister-in-law Marsha said she had turned her home ‘into a fortress’. She added: ‘Nancy had a survivalist philosophy which is why she was stockpiling guns. She had them for defense.

‘She was stockpiling food. She grew up on a farm in New Hampshire. She was skilled with guns. We talked about preppers and preparing for the economy collapsing.’

… Trillion dollar deficits lead to the massacre .. but who is responsible for that ?
The Mayans ?

Google bomb making and see how many hits you get. Heck there are even videos on you tube giving you step by step instruction. The shooter in CO turned his apartment into a death trap. His goal was to kill the police officers even after his own death/capture. Evil will always find a way. If he didn’t have access to a gun, he could have made a bomb from materials that are quite easy to purchase. Many more could have been killed in that scenario.

Also, you cannot have an honest discussion about these problems in this country until you do discuss how hard it is for the families of the mentally ill to get help for their loved ones. While I don’t want to go back to the horrors before the laws started to change in the 60′s, we went too far in the other direction.

Families are helpless to help anyone over the age of 18, and the majority of mental illnesses don’t become readily apparent until the late teens and early 20′s.

Good point. Rampage killers are also not a USA problem exclusively.

How do we prevent such rampages in the future?

As for private/militia possession of anything short of WMD’s, I’m down with that.

The obsession with overthrowing the government is so ridiculous and bizarre that to take it seriously is depressing. What happens is all of these gun nuts arm themselves to the teeth and then people like Adam Lanza’s mother have guns lying around for young people and other nuts to abuse. How many dead kids from accidents/suicides/mass killings are you willing to accept? Gun nuts are just paranoid wimps who think they are big men for having killing machines. Quit living scared and nut up for once in your lives.

Quit living scared of the people and believing that the preservation of your freedom and liberty lies with those who administer our government. The repository of our Life, Liberty, and Property lies with us.

And that’s the low end of Leftist murder figures you cite.

George Carlin had a very similar idea, actually; the only difference was that he would wall off the state of Kansas and use that.

As soon as the media agrees that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to anything more modern than the 18th century wood-frame press, I’ll sign up with your silly-ass plan.

Robert Heinlein discussed it in the 1950′s in his sci-fi novels. He termed it “Coventry”

“Escape from New York” had the right idea.

Guns have neither self will nor moral agency. They are inanimate objects, incapable of acting on their own.

You seem desperate to blame anything but the people who commit the act. Why?

Hoplophobes are just bullies who live in fear that one of their targets will be armed.

Amen

Guns do kill people. Have you not been paying attention to the news? A crazy guy just used a gun to kill 20 people. What did he use to kill people? Answer the question and then you will not be able to defend your assertion that guns don’t kill people.

I guess I should copy and paste the facts into every comment: Guns are much easier to kill people with than other weapons. You can use guns to attack from long range.

Knifes can only be used for short range, and they don’t usually have the same force as a bullet from a gun.

You mention bombs. Bombs are used in relatively few murders compared to guns. You have to make them then get them to the right place undetected, which results some of the time in people not making them properly, such as the Columbine Killers, and some of the time in people getting stopped before they can use them, such as a lot of terrorist suspects like the Times Square Bomber and That Bomber Who Wanted to Bomb the NY Subway But Was Under Survelence and Caught. It’s just a fact that guns are the most common instrument for murder, the reason being, because murderers choose the easiest instrument, so if murderers used other instruments, there would be less murders because they would be less successful.

That Crazy Guy Who Shot Up the School wasn’t a “survivalist” was he? I mean, survivalists are irrational and wrong, considering that the United States is one of the safest and stablest countries in the world, but how does survivalists being wrong equate them to murderers? That would be like saying that Justin Beiber is responsible for the shooting just because he is wrong.

You obviously don’t know much about bladed weapons. Many years ago, I lived in the Philippines where the quaint custom of going “amok” with a bolo [machete] surfaced every few months. Attacks were usually in confined spaces against defenseless people and, yes, I do remember one instance where the toll was more than 20. I also remember one attack, on an inter-island ferry, where the toll had reached 14 when a passenger rushed from the other end of the ship with a presumeably illegal .45 and blew the bastard away. Interestingly, the Constabularly never pressed charges against the “knight” who could have served serious time for his actions. Practical folk, the Filipinos.