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In reply to the discussion: So my 3rd-grade son asked me if there are any crazy people with guns near us. [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,366 posts)told him about living in a "very safe area" is likely exactly what those parents in CT thought about where they lived.
So long as assault weapons are legal, no area is safe, because crazies can be found anywhere and it's only "obvious" after such a horrible and tragic event occurs. But this is not, of course, what any parent ever wants to have to tell a child. Ever.
And yes, it is outrageous and unbearable.
Responsible gun owners should be as outraged at the NRA's stance as anyone who is not a gun owner. I am not - and never will be - but those I know who are, many of them from my own extended family in MT, are as outraged as I.
Frankly, I see no need for any gun whatsoever in urban areas except for law enforcement purposes. They should be in the hands of police and security personnel only.
Hunters certainly do not need assault weapons - unless, of course, they want their prey to have even less of a sporting chance than it already has. Such courage it must take to face a deer with an assault weapon!
Wherever those hunters live, their guns should be securely locked up and locked up unloaded.