Petzal on Sandy Hook

The second problem is one of casual gun storage. One of the more specious comments I've heard regarding the Sandy Hook shooting was that Nancy Lanza was "...a model gun owner..." because she took her son shooting. Although we do not yet know how Nancy Lanza stored her guns, presumably they were not stored securely enough to prevent her son from accessing them. If that was the case, she was not a model gun owner. In fact, she was the opposite if she had a disturbed kid and did not adequately secure her guns.
I’ve lived for years in a state with a safe-storage law, and I have no problem with it at all. So, my second proposal: When your kid steals your firearm and kills a bunch of people, you do not get to hide from the press and issue a statement through your attorney that you are baffled and saddened at how junior went bad. You get, instead, to go on trial as accessory to murder. If it’s found that you have not made a reasonable effort to lock up your hardware, you may then contemplate your negligence from a prison cell. Assuming, of course, your kid doesn’t kill you first.

Until Next Time