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pnwmom

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25. Your lack of understanding of human nature and legal reality is laughable.

Reply to HooptieWagon (Reply #20)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 01:21 PM

Dec 2012

Parents who might have encouraged disturbed offspring's use of guns have strong reasons to conceal this, both because no one wants to admit moral complicity in a crime and because they could be liable to civil lawsuits.

What is my gun ban plan? I wasn't aware I had one.

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Where did Adam learn to use guns? At home, like most mass shooters. [View all] pnwmom Dec 2012 OP

Reason bongbong Dec 2012 #1

Too many people in this country are selfish fools. ellisonz Dec 2012 #2

The Aurora shooter wasn't familiar with guns. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #3

The Columbine shooter found his weapons at home. pnwmom Dec 2012 #5

But you are ignoring the instances where that wasn't the case. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #7

How do you know what the parent was "encouraging"? former9thward Dec 2012 #4

Because I read several reports of his mother taking him target shooting. pnwmom Dec 2012 #6

Yet the Aurora and Va Tech shooters had no history of gun interest HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #8

We don't know what they were exposed to in their homes. pnwmom Dec 2012 #10

Well, neither had owned weapons previously, HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #13

You think the parents of the shooters would have been volunteering that info? pnwmom Dec 2012 #14

I'm sure police looked into it. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #15

Right. Because all guns are registered and all parents of mass shooters pnwmom Dec 2012 #16

If true, then your gun ban plan won't work, HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #20

Your lack of understanding of human nature and legal reality is laughable. pnwmom Dec 2012 #25

Your lack of evidence is what's laughable. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #27

You're projecting. n/t pnwmom Dec 2012 #28

I agree with your OP... ohheckyeah Dec 2012 #18

Yes, that case was probably an exception. n/t pnwmom Dec 2012 #19

Only if you can make the case of a majority of the time being an exception. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #22

Given both the mother and the shooter are dead these reports are pretty easy to come by. former9thward Dec 2012 #9

You're right about the media coverage. It was crazy how hard it was for them to decide pnwmom Dec 2012 #11

CNN: Adam Lanza's family: Mom liked parlor games, guns; dad, a tax exec, remarried OmahaBlueDog Dec 2012 #12

"It was just a nice normal family"... Yeah, right.. Cha Dec 2012 #17

That family was NOT normal. ananda Dec 2012 #21

I taught my stepson to shoot a .22 caliber semiautomatic rifle when he was 10 years old slackmaster Dec 2012 #23

Rita Hayworth "I don't know how to shoot. " Johonny Dec 2012 #24

His mom apparently wanted to live by the sword. kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #26