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Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:39 PM Dec 2012

Is this correct? Shooter's mom owned assault rifles???

What the hell???? What does a mom or anyone with a FAMILY need with an assault rifle? In fact, what does ANYONE need with an assault rifle?

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Is this correct? Shooter's mom owned assault rifles??? (Original Post) Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 OP
Maybe she was afraid of her son? Duer 157099 Dec 2012 #1
So she left the guns there, available to him? Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #3
I didn't say it was smart Duer 157099 Dec 2012 #5
That would be negligent. But some DUers tell me it's wrong to kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #21
I've been thinking the same thing. OnionPatch Dec 2012 #29
If there were unforgiving laws that punished those who let their guns out of their hands Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #72
Laws need to be passed that if you own a gun and someone else gets their hands on it... Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #45
Some states sort of do that nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #92
They do. I think the onus, however, ought to be on the gun owner. Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #93
If somebody steals your gun nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #97
This is the way I see it... Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #98
Why you should be happy that a gun is reported when stolen nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #100
Hell........ FarPoint Dec 2012 #68
I'm telling you, gun fetishists are complete nutjobs. nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #71
Sounds like Sarah Conners from The Terminator exboyfil Dec 2012 #78
That was my thought. n/t Suich Dec 2012 #27
But an assault rifle? If she was afraid, mzmolly Dec 2012 #51
I THINK all the guns were registered to her, yes. gateley Dec 2012 #2
Yes, as well as the father. But they are still matching the serial numbers. FarCenter Dec 2012 #4
I'd say 'live by the gun, die by the gun' except the children Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #7
The reason why I rather have a gun Walter White Dec 2012 #9
WTF??? I think I'd better not respond to this insane post of yours Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #11
That troll is no more. progressoid Dec 2012 #25
Phew! Merci. nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #43
You really stepped in it with this post, didn't you? n/t UtahLib Dec 2012 #20
And how will you keep a family member SheilaT Dec 2012 #73
You'd have better odds of winning a lottery Herlong Dec 2012 #107
Listen, I don't own any guns Saboburns Dec 2012 #15
You know what? Many drunk drivers never get into accidents. As Mr. Pitt says, "STFU." WinkyDink Dec 2012 #19
Mr. Pitt is the last person I'd care to listen to in this matter. Saboburns Dec 2012 #31
I agree with you -- the discussion must move beyond who's right and wrong about guns, Voice for Peace Dec 2012 #64
This message was self-deleted by its author Saboburns Dec 2012 #33
If you own no guns, how are you being blamed for this shooting? UtahLib Dec 2012 #23
I did not say I was being blamed for this shooting. Saboburns Dec 2012 #34
Nitpicking I guess UtahLib Dec 2012 #36
You're calling the dead woman a "sick bastard"? Union Scribe Dec 2012 #28
Until yesterday, she was just another "responsible gun owner." Like all those other Squinch Dec 2012 #104
how the fuck did this person ProdigalJunkMail Dec 2012 #44
Automatic weapons in a home? That's not a home. That's an arsenal of war nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #46
oh horseshit... ProdigalJunkMail Dec 2012 #47
Gun lovers and gun owners are a fucked up lot, and get shot routinely. I'm sick and tired of Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #49
nice job insulting a large percentage of people on this board ProdigalJunkMail Dec 2012 #50
You didn't hear me say there aren't right wingers on DU, did you? Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #53
and all people with guns are right-wingers... ProdigalJunkMail Dec 2012 #55
No, not all. But MOST ARE. And the NRA is a Republican organization, and pro-gun laws are Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #63
we're not talking about the NRA... ProdigalJunkMail Dec 2012 #75
We're talking about ALL gun fetishists, including those whose greed makes them thirsty for blood. nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #84
ah, so it's not just this woman that deserved to die ProdigalJunkMail Dec 2012 #90
Since I'm not the one collecting human-killing weapons, I find it amusing that you'd compare me Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #94
you're in the same camp ProdigalJunkMail Dec 2012 #95
Me? Where did I wish death on someone? I do think you need a vacation. You've begun reading Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #99
You did suggest mutilation as the price for owning guns in another thread ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #110
Ah, the word, "wish" has now become "suggest" Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #111
Lets let others read your words and see what they think... ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #112
Let's just have you crawl back into your gun fetish group and whine Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #114
Another person hoist on their own petard ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #116
Do tell, what are you a professor of? Target-painting? nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #117
Computer Science ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #118
You should know better! nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #119
Large percentage? No godai Dec 2012 #102
heh Edweird Dec 2012 #80
It was not an automatic weapon. It was a Bushmaster semi-auto rifle shadowrider Dec 2012 #52
Post removed Post removed Dec 2012 #59
She didn't own any automatic weapons SpartanDem Dec 2012 #66
Seems strange for the mother to own these weapons. godai Dec 2012 #8
Owning guns is like playing with fire. And gun owners always kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #22
Exactly. Gun lovers are so convinced that owning guns will save them, but it does the opposite Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #48
It is reported she like target shooting hack89 Dec 2012 #60
Well, it got her killed. n/t godai Dec 2012 #65
I read a story quoting a neighbor saying she had a large gun collection -- I don't know if that's fishwax Dec 2012 #6
Side Note: I lived next door to a women like that - had a large gun collection lunasun Dec 2012 #14
No assault rifle, but semi-auto carbines make great target rifles. ManiacJoe Dec 2012 #10
Wasn't she divorced? Remmah2 Dec 2012 #12
No, he's remarried, living in Stamford. FarCenter Dec 2012 #16
Has anyone heard a first name for 'mom and dad'? I haven't... eom Purveyor Dec 2012 #13
#4 has both lunasun Dec 2012 #17
Nancy J Lanza and Peter Lanza. Son Adam was the shooter. Other son Ryan in NJ not involved. FarCenter Dec 2012 #18
No idea really. Jennicut Dec 2012 #24
I don't know about the rifle, the handguns yes. Glassunion Dec 2012 #26
A number of unanswered questions about this ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #30
Unusual for a woman to own so many guns. It's usually a guy thing. Michigan Alum Dec 2012 #32
I too am curious about that ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #35
She was reportedly a gun collector. LisaL Dec 2012 #38
Lots of different stories out there ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #40
Your sexist post is sexist fail. Edweird Dec 2012 #81
She was reportedly getting large amounts of alimony from her ex-husband. LisaL Dec 2012 #37
That has come out recently ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #41
Her hubby (or ex-hubby) was a tax lawyer working for a lucrative firm though PLUS Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #42
What other rights would you require prior mutilation before exercising them? ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #57
That's plenty. I honestly think gun lovers don't have a F clue and live in a fantasy Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #61
By now you must know that she was not a teacher. juajen Dec 2012 #86
That has come out more recently ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #88
Someone wasn't very careful HawkeyeLibkid Dec 2012 #39
Apparently she was a target shooter hack89 Dec 2012 #54
And standard for shooting targets that resemble people. But you know that. Hoyt Dec 2012 #58
Yup. I get sick every time I see the targets these people use - with a silhouette of a human nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #62
Those are primarily military and police targets ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #69
Depends on the event ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #67
Or for the millions -- including DU gungeoneers -- who practice shooting people. Do you train your Hoyt Dec 2012 #70
I use bullseyes for the vast majority of instruction. ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #74
Yes, she brought her son up in the gun culture -- like many gun lovers. This is what happens. Hoyt Dec 2012 #56
She was a survivalist, afraid of economic collapse panAmerican Dec 2012 #76
In other words, she was a right wing, gun-loving nutjob. Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #83
Prepping is getting real popular, but there are many degrees of it. ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #89
Define 'real popular'. godai Dec 2012 #101
Like I said, if you live in SoCal and are not, you are a fool. ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #109
No one should own an assault rifle. In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #77
Unless there's a war going on, you're absolutely right. nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #82
She enjoyed shooting and collecting. It's actually quite common. Edweird Dec 2012 #79
I don't care what the hell gun fetishists and right wing nutjobs like to do, or whether or not Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #85
Well, given that there's an estimated 400,000,000 privately owned firearms in the US Edweird Dec 2012 #87
she doesn't care... ProdigalJunkMail Dec 2012 #91
Backoff on the personal attacks. godai Dec 2012 #106
Oh, that's published in newspapers far and wide, the sick gun fetishism in the U.S. and the Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #96
Wow! Yesterday it was 300,000,000. n/t godai Dec 2012 #105
Bullshit plenty of liberal own guns SpartanDem Dec 2012 #103
"Plenty of" lololol Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #115
look DonCoquixote Dec 2012 #108
Agreed, but laws are too lax... Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #113
I would not even go that far DonCoquixote Dec 2012 #120
Yes, and Four, mandatory incarceration if you lose your gun somehow nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2012 #121
 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
21. That would be negligent. But some DUers tell me it's wrong to
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:22 AM
Dec 2012

place any blame on her even if she was.

If she failed to secure her guns and ANYONE got ahold of them to murder, she is responsible in part.

Gun owners need to start to fear the consequences of their irresponsible gun ownership.

OnionPatch

(6,326 posts)
29. I've been thinking the same thing.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:43 AM
Dec 2012

I can't imagine leaving a weapon like that where anyone, especially a kid/youth, could get it. Aren't there laws that require gun owners to keep their guns secure from others? If not, there should be. It seems like a lot of these shootings happen when some young guy either gets a gun illegally or takes his parents'.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
72. If there were unforgiving laws that punished those who let their guns out of their hands
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:46 PM
Dec 2012

We would see a lot less of this. Laws are needed with required serving of time.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
45. Laws need to be passed that if you own a gun and someone else gets their hands on it...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:00 PM
Dec 2012

you go automatically to prison, do not pass go, do not receive probation.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
93. They do. I think the onus, however, ought to be on the gun owner.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 06:04 PM
Dec 2012

If gun owners choose to own them, they should be made completely responsible, no exceptions.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
97. If somebody steals your gun
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 06:13 PM
Dec 2012

As long as you tell the cops as soon as possible, in any society, that releases of liability. You don't, well face the music. Some guns are stolen in the commission of a robbery. What if, as it often happens, it was used against the owner during the robbery? By your logic, assuming the owner survives, now jail time too?

We call that knee jerk extreme reaction.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
98. This is the way I see it...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 07:53 PM
Dec 2012

If you purchase plutonium (assuming it were freely for sale), it's your responsibility to make damned sure it doesn't get into the hands of someone who could do something really interesting with it. Same with guns. I see ownership of guns about as vital and important as the ownership of plutonium. People in countries where guns are not permitted still seem to function. Here? Here there are people who would DIE (or think they would) if they couldn't own a gun, as if a gun were running water they needed to survive.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
100. Why you should be happy that a gun is reported when stolen
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:05 PM
Dec 2012

Believe it or not, it is not plutonium.

This is as knee jerk absolutist as the gun nut who tells me that they have no need to report a stolen weapon on fourth amendment grounds, I kid you not.

I would be willing to limit the ammo a gun can put through, per magazine. That is a technical problem and it would require modification of guns.

I have no issue with registration.

I would go as far as licensing

But as long as a stolen weapon is reported, fine.

Oh and once smart gun technology becomes very reliable I want to mandate at least all modern weapons to be back fitted to the technology. That would make this issue pretty much mute...

FarPoint

(14,752 posts)
68. Hell........
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:37 PM
Dec 2012

she trained him too! Took her mentally ill son to the gun range and taught him to shoot efficiently.

exboyfil

(18,359 posts)
78. Sounds like Sarah Conners from The Terminator
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:06 PM
Dec 2012

An opportunity to bond with her disturbed son.

 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
4. Yes, as well as the father. But they are still matching the serial numbers.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:43 PM
Dec 2012
ABC NEWS has learned that Lanza's mother had numerous weapons legally registered to her, including a Glock and a Sig Sauer however federal authorities say they cannot confirm at this time that they are the same weapons used as they have not completed their own serial number check. Nancy Lanza also owned a Bushmaster rifle - a semi-automatic carbine chambered for a .223 caliber round. However they cannot confirm whether it was the same weapon that appears to have been used at the scene.

ABC NEWS has learned that Peter Lanza, the gunman's father, also had a number of weapons legally registered in New Jersey, however it is unknown what makes or models and whether there is any link between these weapons and the crime.


http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/northern_suburbs&id=8920448

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
7. I'd say 'live by the gun, die by the gun' except the children
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:45 PM
Dec 2012

were taken because of stupid-ass gun owners. Sick bastard gun owners.

 

Walter White

(3 posts)
9. The reason why I rather have a gun
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:53 PM
Dec 2012

because I'd rather be able to protect myself from the criminals and or mentally unstable that will do harm to me or my family.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
11. WTF??? I think I'd better not respond to this insane post of yours
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:55 PM
Dec 2012

With 20 kids dead and you're saying this sh*t?

I sure as hell hope you're being facetious.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
73. And how will you keep a family member
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:51 PM
Dec 2012

from getting hold of the gun, killing you, and going off and killing a lot of others.

I'm sure that if we could go back three days and speak with Nancy Lanza she'd offer the same excuse that you just did.

Guns in a household are vastly more likely to be used to kill a family member than an intruder. Vastly. Don't know the exact statistics, but it's there.

 

Herlong

(649 posts)
107. You'd have better odds of winning a lottery
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:39 PM
Dec 2012

The chances of you being able to whip out you gun at the right moment is slim. They are there to do you harm. You just own guns.

Saboburns

(2,807 posts)
15. Listen, I don't own any guns
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:07 AM
Dec 2012

I have not owned, nor even handled any Guns in nearly twenty years. But I have a problem with you blaming all gun owners for this tragedy. That's just not right.

Been a helluva lot of this here today.

And it harkens back to last week when it was my fault there are so many rapes in this country because I am Male.

I submit to you that nearly all gun owners here in America are lawful, normal people. There is a huge preponderance of DU'ers today who claim these people are gun nuts. Who fondle their weapons, and are all paranoid weirdos.

For us to make meaningful strides to eliminate these tragic shootings, we must acknowledge that blaming all gun owners, as you have done, does not help. It hinders honest attempts to make positive change.

I understand the emotional impact this shooting has on all of us. This massacre has made us all raw. More so than at any other time that I remember. But I am tired of being blamed for this shooting. I'm tired of the strawman attacks, that will no doubt follow. I want tougher gun laws, I want Federal Legislation.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
19. You know what? Many drunk drivers never get into accidents. As Mr. Pitt says, "STFU."
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:11 AM
Dec 2012

Saboburns

(2,807 posts)
31. Mr. Pitt is the last person I'd care to listen to in this matter.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:52 AM
Dec 2012

As I read his post that called for all DU Members who disagree with him in this matter be purged from this website. Now there's a Bedrock Liberal principle. And I certainly do not remember a time in this web site's history where discussion is negated and replaced with group thought. You may endorse Lock Step Thinking. I do not. I will not.

As I said, this is an extremely raw time. You see, I teach Kindergarten.

I have high hopes this will lead to credible Federal Gun Control Legistation.

But blaming all gun owners for this crime is knee jerk at best. Its dishonest, disingenuous, and intellectually lazy.

 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
64. I agree with you -- the discussion must move beyond who's right and wrong about guns,
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:31 PM
Dec 2012

to what can realistically be done, immediately, to change
the course in our country.

I have no idea what that is but I know the polarization
doesn't help.

Response to WinkyDink (Reply #19)

UtahLib

(3,182 posts)
23. If you own no guns, how are you being blamed for this shooting?
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:25 AM
Dec 2012

By the way, no one here blames all males for the number of rapes in this country but you do make yourself appear exceptionally defensive by mentioning the subject when replying to this post.

Saboburns

(2,807 posts)
34. I did not say I was being blamed for this shooting.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:11 AM
Dec 2012

So far in this thread ALL gun owners are being blamed. Guilt by association has always been chickenshit.

DU'ers are spitting the term 'Gun Nut' like Ann Oulter spits the term 'Liberal'.

UtahLib

(3,182 posts)
36. Nitpicking I guess
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:02 AM
Dec 2012

but you did say in your first post "I am tired of being blamed for this shooting". I agree that because of the day's tragic events most posters have been very hard on gun owners in what I would call a visceral reaction.

I find it sad and frustrating that the NRA and the teabaggers have been able to whip some people into such a frenzied fear that they truly can be called gun nuts. Although I will never understand the fascination with guns, I don't believe all gun owners fit into that category and hope we can have a rational conversation and resolution to the escalating violence in our country. If that includes stronger gun control, so be it.

Peace

Union Scribe

(7,099 posts)
28. You're calling the dead woman a "sick bastard"?
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:37 AM
Dec 2012

And somehow she had it coming? "Live by the gun..."?

Squinch

(59,444 posts)
104. Until yesterday, she was just another "responsible gun owner." Like all those other
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:23 PM
Dec 2012

"responsible gun owners" out there.

Then her responsible guns killed 20 children and 8 adults including herself.

This is what became of the responsible ownership of these particular guns.

ProdigalJunkMail

(12,017 posts)
47. oh horseshit...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:10 PM
Dec 2012

she collected firearms... you don't know shit about her and yet she 'deserved' to die in your eyes. that is some serious fucked up shit.

sP

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
49. Gun lovers and gun owners are a fucked up lot, and get shot routinely. I'm sick and tired of
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:14 PM
Dec 2012

gun lovers defending guns. This is not an unusual case. Gun owner gets shot by own gun. Stupid doesn't even begin to describe gun owners.

ProdigalJunkMail

(12,017 posts)
50. nice job insulting a large percentage of people on this board
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:15 PM
Dec 2012

and I am glad you get to make the decision about who should live and die...

fuck off...

sp

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
53. You didn't hear me say there aren't right wingers on DU, did you?
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:17 PM
Dec 2012

And in fact, there are. And yes, I'll repeat it for your pleasure - gun-lovers are one fucked up lot.

ProdigalJunkMail

(12,017 posts)
55. and all people with guns are right-wingers...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:18 PM
Dec 2012

right.

so, when someone thinks YOU'RE fucked up... do you deserve to die? how very Westboro Baptist of you...

sP

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
63. No, not all. But MOST ARE. And the NRA is a Republican organization, and pro-gun laws are
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:30 PM
Dec 2012

initiated by Republicans, and I can go on.

Again, gun lovers are one fucked up lot.

ProdigalJunkMail

(12,017 posts)
75. we're not talking about the NRA...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:02 PM
Dec 2012

we're talking about a woman whom you know nothing about other than she liked to collect weapons. and you think it was just fine and dandy that she was killed. because you don't like that she had guns.

again, how very westboro baptist of you...

sP

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
84. We're talking about ALL gun fetishists, including those whose greed makes them thirsty for blood. nt
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:14 PM
Dec 2012

ProdigalJunkMail

(12,017 posts)
90. ah, so it's not just this woman that deserved to die
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:36 PM
Dec 2012

but everyone who owns a gun... because you don't like it.

Sarah Ibarruri... proud member of the Westboro Baptist Church.

sP

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
94. Since I'm not the one collecting human-killing weapons, I find it amusing that you'd compare me
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 06:05 PM
Dec 2012

and not gun owners to the Westboro Baptist Church, right wing extremist, gun-owning crowd.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
99. Me? Where did I wish death on someone? I do think you need a vacation. You've begun reading
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 07:54 PM
Dec 2012

things that aren't there. :::Twilight Zone music:::

Oh but of course! :::smacking forehead:::: You're a gun owner! I'd forgotten.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
111. Ah, the word, "wish" has now become "suggest"
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 10:49 PM
Dec 2012

I think you'd better just drop it, or soon you'll be saying you completely misread my posts.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
114. Let's just have you crawl back into your gun fetish group and whine
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 10:55 PM
Dec 2012
Cheer up! I'll bet other gun fetishists are already there stroking their guns and doing heavy breathing.

shadowrider

(4,941 posts)
52. It was not an automatic weapon. It was a Bushmaster semi-auto rifle
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:16 PM
Dec 2012

The difference?

Automatic weapon = Pull the trigger and it fires until the magazine is empty
Semi-automatic = Pull the trigger, one shot

I'm not disputing or endorsing the merits, or lack thereof, of her owning one. Simply correcting your apparent misconception.

Response to shadowrider (Reply #52)

SpartanDem

(4,533 posts)
66. She didn't own any automatic weapons
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:34 PM
Dec 2012

if you're AR-15 SEMI-automatic, which mean it shoots one bullet per pull of the trigger. Full automatic guns are very tightly regulated.

Civilian ownership of assault rifles or any other full-automatic firearm is tightly regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives under the National Firearms Act of 1934 as amended by Title II of the Gun Control Act of 1968. In addition, the Firearms Owners' Protection Act of 1986 halted the manufacture of assault rifles for the civilian market and currently limits legal civilian ownership to units produced and properly registered with the BATFE before May 1986. Some states have enacted laws against civilian possession of automatic weapons that override NFA clearance; Kansas, on the other hand, repealed its own state law against civilian ownership of assault rifles in July 2008.[24] Civilians may purchase semi-automatic versions of such firearms without requiring NFA clearance, although some states (including California and New Jersey) enforce their own restrictions and/or prohibitions on such weapons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle#United_States

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
22. Owning guns is like playing with fire. And gun owners always
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:24 AM
Dec 2012

say no one could have forseen any burns or prevented them.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
48. Exactly. Gun lovers are so convinced that owning guns will save them, but it does the opposite
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:11 PM
Dec 2012

The number of people that have gotten shot with their own guns is astounding - something we hear every day.

hack89

(39,181 posts)
60. It is reported she like target shooting
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:25 PM
Dec 2012

AR-15's are very common in competitive shooting. Not really that strange - it is a big reason most people own them.

fishwax

(29,346 posts)
6. I read a story quoting a neighbor saying she had a large gun collection -- I don't know if that's
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:45 PM
Dec 2012

where these later stories have gotten the information or if there is more to it. It may well be, but I'm hesitant to take such reporting at face value at this early stage ...

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
14. Side Note: I lived next door to a women like that - had a large gun collection
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:06 AM
Dec 2012

whole family insane son shot BB guns through people's windows and killed animals too

If it was a big collection then the shooter was already living in gun culture

ManiacJoe

(10,138 posts)
10. No assault rifle, but semi-auto carbines make great target rifles.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:54 PM
Dec 2012

The ergonomics and modular design make getting the correct fit easy.

The correct question is, were the guns being properly stored? The results of the day suggest not.

 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
18. Nancy J Lanza and Peter Lanza. Son Adam was the shooter. Other son Ryan in NJ not involved.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:09 AM
Dec 2012

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)
26. I don't know about the rifle, the handguns yes.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:31 AM
Dec 2012

If I am not mistaken she could not have had a registered "Assault Rifle", unless it was owned prior to a specific date and registered by another specific date going back to the early 90's.

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
30. A number of unanswered questions about this
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:24 AM
Dec 2012

What all she owned, how it was stored, and why she had them. The three alone are fairly high end/expensive firearms, odd for someone on a teachers salary. Not a assault rifle, but still higher end, as were the handguns.

Michigan Alum

(335 posts)
32. Unusual for a woman to own so many guns. It's usually a guy thing.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:00 AM
Dec 2012

I could see it could be a bit more normal to see a woman who lives by herself to have one gun "for protection," but multiple guns, including assault weapons??

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
35. I too am curious about that
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:34 AM
Dec 2012

Shooting is mostly a male sport, though the gender ratio is changing. Even so to find those kind of firearms is a bit odd unless the owner is a shooting enthusiast. I expect we will know more over time. I also expect that there will be more weapons found in the home. Every shooter I know has a .22LR rifle or handgun for plinking and target practice. I will be particularly interested to learn how they were stored and why she had them. Note that nothing identified to date is an assault rifle, including the Bushmaster.

LisaL

(47,418 posts)
37. She was reportedly getting large amounts of alimony from her ex-husband.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:19 AM
Dec 2012

So I don't think she worried about money.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
42. Her hubby (or ex-hubby) was a tax lawyer working for a lucrative firm though PLUS
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:57 PM
Dec 2012

from what I heard, her hubby had a bazillion more semi-automatic weapons than she did. Apparently he's a weapon-lover. I'm sure he loved weapons when he was married to her, and maybe she developed that weapon-love.

I think people who love weapons should be required to have a finger shot off before they're allowed to start their collections. Maybe then they'll really understand weapons.

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
57. What other rights would you require prior mutilation before exercising them?
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:20 PM
Dec 2012

Reporting on this event and its background has been markedly poor. That said it has now been reported that she was also shooting enthusiast. It will be interesting to see how the firearms were stored and how the son got access to them.

A while back I found out just how much our daughters knew of our secrets, including where the safe combo was stored when they were growing up.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
61. That's plenty. I honestly think gun lovers don't have a F clue and live in a fantasy
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:28 PM
Dec 2012

with their gun fetishism, in which they're some sort of gun-hero. A little required finger mutilation might snap them out of that fantasy.

juajen

(8,515 posts)
86. By now you must know that she was not a teacher.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:17 PM
Dec 2012

She had a large, expensive home in NewTown and had a healthy alimony payment from her wealthy husband. She might have also had a career. There is not a lot of info yet. But, she was not a teacher living on a teacher's salary.

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
88. That has come out more recently
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:31 PM
Dec 2012

the media fail on this is tremendous...prior facts being invalidated hourly.

HawkeyeLibkid

(76 posts)
39. Someone wasn't very careful
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:26 AM
Dec 2012

My question is who in the family DIDN'T know the kid was mentally unstable? Who would leave guns, locked up or not, or within reach of a mentally unstable young adult?

hack89

(39,181 posts)
54. Apparently she was a target shooter
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:17 PM
Dec 2012

AR-15's are the standard rifle for competitive target shooting.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
58. And standard for shooting targets that resemble people. But you know that.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:20 PM
Dec 2012

She brought her son up in the gun culture.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
62. Yup. I get sick every time I see the targets these people use - with a silhouette of a human nt
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:29 PM
Dec 2012

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
69. Those are primarily military and police targets
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:39 PM
Dec 2012

There is no accounting for taste with the novelty one.

When I teach firearms, we always use bullseye type targets. Much easier to help the students learn to shoot accurately.

Silhouettes and realistic targets were used for showing the difficulty in accurately hitting human targets well.

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
67. Depends on the event
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:35 PM
Dec 2012

Lots of bullseye targets out there. Silhouettes are more police and military and there is no accounting for taste with the novelty ones.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
70. Or for the millions -- including DU gungeoneers -- who practice shooting people. Do you train your
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:40 PM
Dec 2012

"classes" using them.

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
74. I use bullseyes for the vast majority of instruction.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:58 PM
Dec 2012

They are the best way to correct the shooters aim or change the sights.

I used detailed targets to demonstrate how much harder it is to shoot accurately at people (which it is) and to demonstrate the fallacy of the hostage rescue shot without things like lasers.

Silhouettes are the best way to teach double taps and the Mozambique drill which is tactical training.

Another way to look at it is the silhouettes and especially realistic targets are more expensive than bullseye and range trash.

IME less than 10% of what I see used are not bullseye and some ranges even ban them. The most popular seem to be the zombie ones. As I said, no accounting for taste.



 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
56. Yes, she brought her son up in the gun culture -- like many gun lovers. This is what happens.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:19 PM
Dec 2012

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
83. In other words, she was a right wing, gun-loving nutjob.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:14 PM
Dec 2012

Then she should've lived in the wilderness, instead of living in a nice neighborhood, dense with children, and causing 20 little children and 6 innocent teachers and principal to die. Once again, the right wing nutjobs are killing innocents with their gun fetishism.

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
89. Prepping is getting real popular, but there are many degrees of it.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:41 PM
Dec 2012

You don't see a lot of hard core preppers in well to do portions of Conn, they have already established themselves in the hinterlands.

I live in SoCal and if you have not done some preparation for a big quake, you are a fool.


Be interesting to see what the truth is about her. So many media mistakes so far.

godai

(2,902 posts)
101. Define 'real popular'.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:14 PM
Dec 2012

Not by people I know. About earthquakes, people in Tokyo mainly store water. What else do you need? Guns to fight off looters? Are you a 'prepper'?

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
109. Like I said, if you live in SoCal and are not, you are a fool.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 09:15 PM
Dec 2012

I live in the middle of raw desert. Since the earthquake is coming, I have water and food stored. I also have a means to convert my solar panels from grid tie to local usage. I have a comm plan to contact my family (I live alone). So yes I have made some plans. All of this is recommended by FEMA and the state disaster people.
What they do in Japanese cites is scarcely relevant and I saw next to nothing while I was there, not unlike what I have seen in NYC or SFO.

Prepper is a huge continuum. Some are hardcore TEOTAWAKI idiots that scare the hell out of me. Most are like Mormons doing the 1 year supply of food/provident living thing and are fairly innocuous. Some are like me, Nadin, and others DUers who look at week to a month. The differences are dramatic n cost and attitude.

One thing I have found is that both the economic downturn and the recent disasters are causing people to think about things like that and about the longer term. That is a good thing for them and society.

I recent saw for the first time some TV shows about Preppers. I hope most of it is faked like many reality TV shows. Some real freaks there.

I bet you know some preppers some where along that sliding scale. Many do not talk about it. If they are minor ones, like me, you assume everyone has that level of stuff done. If they are some of the freaks you don't talk about in case the zombies hear about it

None of this has a damn thing to do with gun control or the massacre in Conn.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
85. I don't care what the hell gun fetishists and right wing nutjobs like to do, or whether or not
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:16 PM
Dec 2012

it's common among them. They're a bunch of sick douches.

 

Edweird

(8,570 posts)
87. Well, given that there's an estimated 400,000,000 privately owned firearms in the US
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:30 PM
Dec 2012

(spread out among 311,000,000 people) I'd say that there are either a hell of lot of "gun fetishists and right wing nutjobs" or you're painting with an awfully broad brush.

ProdigalJunkMail

(12,017 posts)
91. she doesn't care...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:46 PM
Dec 2012

she has joined Westboro Baptist Church's mindset that all people who are not like you deserve to die and rot in hell. It's apparently the hot thing on DU now.

sP

godai

(2,902 posts)
106. Backoff on the personal attacks.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:33 PM
Dec 2012

Your earlier post,now hidden:


Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT and said: Can't the gun hardon people wait a few days before having their little weapon fetish tantrums? Fuck. I know I speak for much if DU when I say i've positively had it with this god damn "keep yur hands off my big turgid gun" bullshit.
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT and said: Way ott snark. Totally unnecessary.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
96. Oh, that's published in newspapers far and wide, the sick gun fetishism in the U.S. and the
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 06:10 PM
Dec 2012

promotion of that fetish by the gun industry. It's no different from child porn in the damage it causes.

DonCoquixote

(13,956 posts)
108. look
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:47 PM
Dec 2012

beyond how people feel on guns, this is a legal issue.

If I had someone in my house who was a violent drunk, and gave them the keys to my Truck, guess what, I am liable if he goes ahead and runs down a third grader.

And this time of year, the time of the office Xmas party, why do you think many corporations try to have hotels, or at least admonish people to take cabs? Because people have been found liable for DUI.

The bottom line, if I leave anything dangerous where someone who is mentally ill can get at it...I can get sued. And yes, I do think about that this time of year.

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
113. Agreed, but laws are too lax...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 10:53 PM
Dec 2012

People who undertake the responsibility of buying and owning guns, should receive mandatory incarceration the moment the gun lands in someone else's hands. If they're afraid of that, they shouldn't buy or own a gun. Guaranteed the gun fetish would start to die out, and all these gun nuts would take up a new fetish - maybe some life-size inflatable dolls or something.

DonCoquixote

(13,956 posts)
120. I would not even go that far
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 11:08 PM
Dec 2012

because obviously adam lanza did not care about putting his mom in Jail. I would say first off

Make guns of all sorts heavily TAXED...

second, ban automatic weapons

three, have owners purchase a gun safe before they can purchase a gun.

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