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In reply to the discussion: I am 100% certain Nancy Lanza considered herself a RESPONSIBLE gun owner. [View all]Daniel537
(1,560 posts)20. Yes, the vast majority are responsible.
Show me the data that says otherwise?
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I am 100% certain Nancy Lanza considered herself a RESPONSIBLE gun owner. [View all]
RomneyLies
Dec 2012
OP
One media source (The Telegraph?) reported that he tried to buy guns a day or so earlier.
HooptieWagon
Dec 2012
#129
And yet she left her toys unsecured, all the while knowing how dangerous her son was.
kestrel91316
Dec 2012
#4
IF the guns were secured and he destroyed the safe to get to them, then I retract what I said.
kestrel91316
Dec 2012
#41
There are reports that she told friends that she was afraid of him. She should have
kestrel91316
Dec 2012
#58
Great point. I've never met a gun owner who didn't say he was responsible
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#5
I think the fact that so many of the victims were children has really hit home with people.
Chemisse
Dec 2012
#131
Crack cocaine doesn't kill everyone in the U.S., so it should be readily available for everyone
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#72
There's a death-and-gun fetish in this country that I found in no other country I lived in
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#99
Because people don't get shot by game videos. They get shot by guns, using bullets. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#124
There are more guns than adults here. In the U.K. guns are very strictly controlled
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#104
this is the sort of response you get from the 'can we finally have a discussion about guns'
ProdigalJunkMail
Dec 2012
#90
Are you making an argument that because *everyone* doesn't get shot, that it's okay
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#74
Please stop it. You're talking to someone who lived in Europe, and felt considerably safer because
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#95
This is what I responded to someone who has the same opinion as you....
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#105
I said I felt safer because I do. I don't want to live in a war zone where gun deaths are rampant.
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#123
I'm not carrying a gun either, and I resent being forced to live in a war zone by gun-lovers nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#126
Wrong as usual. It has to do with the risk of being shot in the U.S. versus
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#138
How many times have you ever heard anyone say that they weren't responable about anything?
Carnage251
Dec 2012
#34
My brother was 12 when he figured out how to crack my parent's safe (contained jewelry)
Dems to Win
Dec 2012
#47
Do we now know she was sleeping...like shot in her bed? And that the weapons were not
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#15
Many on this board are #1, maybe #2 and until someone proves to me that her guns
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#83
Yea, there's a whole lot of rush to judgement and knee-jerk responses here on DU.
HooptieWagon
Dec 2012
#86
Beats me. Because they should. And we need to work to make that the new way of doing things.
kestrel91316
Dec 2012
#43
I find your attitude about gun owner safety obligations to be quite disturbing.
kestrel91316
Dec 2012
#44
Yep. They're like all those 'responsible' pit bull owners who are shocked when their little
valerief
Dec 2012
#30
I'm pretty sure most of the conjecture about her is not all that productive
Major Nikon
Dec 2012
#51
It is scary that so many people just believe what the media puts out there...
mizz pibb.
Dec 2012
#118
Regardless of what media reports, there's a lot of DUers flat out making shit up.
HooptieWagon
Dec 2012
#136