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This is foreign to me - gun shots in my neighborhood would give me a stroke.
NEWTOWN, Conn. Nancy Lanza loved guns, and often took her sons to one of the shooting ranges here in the suburbs northeast of New York City, where there is an active community of gun enthusiasts, her friends said. At a local bar, she sometimes talked about her gun collection.
It was one of her guns that was apparently used to take her life on Friday. Her killer was her son Adam Lanza, 20, who then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed 26 more people, 20 of them small children, before shooting himself, the authorities said.
Ms. Lanzas fascination with guns became an important focus of attention on Saturday as investigators tried to determine what caused Mr. Lanza to carry out one of the worst massacres in the nations history. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/nyregion/friends-of-gunmans-mother-his-first-victim-recall-her-as-generous.html?hp&_r=0
Loudly
(2,436 posts)If gun ownership by the rabble is the standard.
doc03
(35,363 posts)ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)doc03
(35,363 posts)along a main highway and the houses are close together most have 1/2-1 acre lots. There is lots of woods and farm land off of the main road.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)I am in the city where no gun shots are legal except for self defense unless at the established gun ranges.
Loudly
(2,436 posts)Close it down. Shut it off if you hear it. If you hear rounds being fired, notify the authorities immediately.
doc03
(35,363 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)that's the twisted part.
That that pretty much shoots down the theory about arming teachers.
Every time you hear gun shots in an area where it's no big deal, how would the teacher
know when it's a danger or just some kid shooting squirrels
LeftInTX
(25,515 posts)Neighborhood kids would be hunting small game.