Board Thread:Current Events/@comment-867021-20121212152305/@comment-1895174-20121220005932

Actually, you didn't say that. You said the guns were "ILLEAGAL" [sic]. The guns were not illegal, they were purchased legally.

But would it have made a difference if Adam Lanza was the legal owner of those guns? The gun he used to carry out this act bought legally, not in some black market, back alley deal like you seem to believe. Do you really think he would not have done this had he been a legal gun owner? Did being a legal gun owner stop Michael Page, James Holmes, Seung-Hui Cho? Actually, it's much more than that - in the past 30 years, there have been 60 mass shootings in the United States, 7 in 2012 alone. Of those 60 mass shootings, 48 of them, roughly 80%, were carried out by legal gunowners.

Actually, the fact that Adam Lanza was not the legal owner of the gun seems to work against you. You did, after all, argue that owning a gun keeps someone safe, yet, in this case, his mother owning those guns did not save her. Her owning those guns actually led to her death, as well as the deaths of 20 innocent children whom you seem to forget are the victims here. Had a gun not been in the picture, those children would not be dead.