There will always be exceptions. Perhaps if the guns were locked up he would not have gained access to them. Perhaps if the mother would have faced consequences had it been found out her kid had so issues and she had guns in the house the guns.

No system is perfect. The one we have obviously is not. You have yet to present any ideas of your own to help deal with the issue.

Ban guns for anyone but the military, put all schools under control of the military, establish dorm rooms for the kids to curb weapons entering the compound. They aren't my kids, if you want zero sum, then aim for zero. Enough of this compromise BS.

No system is perfect and no system will work or night. Any regulations applies will take generations to take effect.

To say that it cannot be stopped is overly simplistic IMO. we have over 9,000 gun homicides every year. To say this is acceptable and the way things are where there are countless who's murder rates are far far lower is proof that at the very least the problem can be addressed. Not eliminated but at the very least reduced.

I bet that any banks in New Town have armed guards. Why should schools be any different, considering the human capital stored there? Are they no less valuable than our deposits? A few years ago, I might not has recommended this, but the nutcases are out there.

Then I would say that you are a person with no real survival instinct. Not a bad person, but certainly a person who will not save themselves by means that remove the threat.

Pray to whatever you believe in every night to the humans out there who will do what it takes to keep people like you safe, at least most of the time.

thats not what I saw in Mexico City last week. National Police at public schools, protecting children.

To others....
No fortresses, just a guy with a gun, protecting the helpless is what I am advocating here, it's pretty simple to see if you take off your blinders...

thank you. this supports my argument for somebody being armed at school...

If not cops, private armed security, trained well and with the authority to use lethal force on an attacker.

pay for it by siphoning some of th eridiculous amount of money spent on sports programs, or "tax" college sport program cash cows. Who could argue against protecting the future?

Actually no, I did read the whole thing. And I happen to have a lot more experience with this type of problem "childhood bipolar disorder" than you might realize. And precisely because of that I question the actions of the mother, heartfelt though they might be, and the uselessness of the "system" with it's shrinks, pills and "enlightened" actions.

And once again this merely reinforces my earlier comments about why this sort of thing did not happen in earlier generations. Obviously something has changed and it is very definitely NOT an increase in access of the citizenry to guns which were a hell of a lot easier for Americans to acquire in the 40's and 50's for example than they are now.

- Peter.

This. This is the biggest part of the problem. Where do these guns come from? Who originally bought that gun being sold on the street? Why can't we dry up that supply line? Why don't the responsible gun owners out there GAS about these things?

CT's existing laws did what they could, but in the end, the mother proved to be an irresponsible gun owner, bless her soul. How do we combat the irresponsible people who are allowed to purchase weapons to which they show no respect?

I'd suggest more likely luck. Your parents and your friends parents had kids who were not ****ups.

- Peter.

true. I was going to link that here until I saw that you did. The kid is going to kill one day, unless society is protected against him. The answer? Don't know, but people like that can't just be allowed to run around loose.

How was she irresponsible? Do you have evidence that shows the Lanza boy ever exhibited dangerous behavior before? :confused:

So, one could leave a barn door always open until you see the horse leavin . . .? :D

How hard would it have been to stab his mother, take her keys, and get the guns out of the safe? Pretty damned easy.

Hve you ever broken into a small safe before?? I have broken into 6 of them this year...really easy to do. I had to break into a small handgun safe in July of this year, and didn't even break a sweat doing it.

You won't get a suggestion out of me because there is nothing that could have stopped this guy. He wasn't wired right, and because of his mental issues, he became a murderer...NOT because of guns. Given enough desire to kill, anyone is capable of anything, period. Taking guns out of the equation does nothing to stem that thirst, when there are other tools just as deadly available.

I'll give this as a suggestion...allow armed security at the schools. Heck, even a guard with a Taser would have been an improvement over what they had as security.