A law abiding gun owner was responsible for Newtown.

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85. Agreed. We'll never hear it, of course, but I would love to

have heard her response to Mr. Heflin's question as to why she needed an assault weapon. Is an A-R15 required for hunting down bambi or is it simply for target practice? Is there some rogue government I don't know about out there so menacing that citizens need to arm themselves with assault rifles against it? Is Newtown, Connecticut so crime ridden that citizens need assault weapons to protect themselves against bands of roving thugs? What is it? Interesting that when Mr. Heflin posed the question, no one had a legitimate answer.

By leaving those weapons, which she would have had a hell of a time justifying, out where her mentally ill son could get at them, Nancy Lanza contributed toward making the crime possible. That she, too, became a victim is ironic.