Han wrote in :

Tim, I like to distance myself from the dogooders. Laws of unintended
consequences and stuff. But Sandy Hook is not the result of the left
doing anything. Sandy Hook is the result of easily available weapons,

"easily available"???

Connecticut has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation.

a disturbed young man,

Point the blame there. Not on the weapons.

and a mother who tried to help instill self-
confidence etc in her son in the wrong way.

Total speculation on your part.

What about the absence of the father? Do you think that had anything at all to do with it?

Moreover, Mom did not
foresee what son could do with those weapons.

And she paid the price for that lack of foresight, too. Too bad that it's so hard to get
someone involuntarily commited; she was trying to do that, because she knew he was
disturbed, and apparently that's what set him off.

As far as I am concerned,
I think you and many others have shown you can handle the responsibility.
The fact of 30-odd thousand gun deaths (wasn't that the figure?) shows
that there are too many who can't. So are we calling the Aurora victims,
Sandy Hook kids and teachers, and Webster firefighters just poor
collateral damage?

Nope. I'm calling them victims of misguided feel-good policies put in place by people who
believe that passing a law prohibiting some particular behavior will thereby *prevent* that
behavior -- that designating a school as a "Gun-Free Zone" will somehow stop anyone from
bringing a gun into the building, or that prohibiting people from smoking marijuana will stop
them from toking up.

When four-year-olds think that wishes will come true, it's cute.

When adults think that way, it's delusional. And often dangerous.