South Carolina Elementry School Shooting

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School Shooter Killed Father Before Rampage That Left 3 Injured: Authorities

Yet another one. How do these homicidal minors get access to weaponry? Is there no legal requirement for adults in the USA to store firearms securely, as there is in other Western countries? It's shocking how many children have been shot over the past decade or so because they happened to be at school. There are a lot of gun licences here, though not one school shooting has ever happened in New Zealand. (Firearms must be kept in locked cabinets by the people licensed to own them, and licences have to be issued by the police, not by gunshop owners). Of course some criminals here illegally possess guns too, though they don't shoot up children either.

It is so sad, what a tragic needless waste of young lives.

Australia's been relatively free of gun related crime since introducing tougher gun ownership laws banning the importation of all semi-automatic and automatic rifles and shotguns. Perhaps the US could learn from us? never too late

Yet another teenage shooter, how do kids get access to high powered weapons?

It's not just boys----I was given my first gun, when I was 12.

If I did not have motor coordination issues I would have carried.

I'm just glad this was not a mass shooting like Sandy Hook.

Tragic to hear that the six year old victim has died.

The perpetrator looks fairly ordinary to me here:
http://hollywoodlife.com/pics/south-car ... osborne-1/

(Apart from a large head, which is typically a feature of Fragile X Syndrome, not autism).

http://www.fraxa.org/fragile-x-syndrome/symptoms/

A few things the gun grabbers never, ever like to say --

In the hypothetical situation, that you found a loaded weapon, with a shooting still in progress, would you use it to protect life. Social conservatives call them victim disarmament zones.

How is the ban supposed to be effected, without the use of force. Would pacifists actually like to see your doors kicked-in, and do you really have anything gun collectors need or want.

Are you any more or less entitled to self defense, based on your social status. Larken Rose gives modernday examples of dictatorships.

Is the gun an example of private property, or on the public record.

I guess the sad thing is that "copycat killers" who know that they can get on the news and feel important are probably influenced a lot by the news coverage of these stories.