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otohara

(24,135 posts)
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:23 AM Dec 2012

“You hear gun shots around here all the time" Newtown

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. Lanza’s 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 nation’s history. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/nyregion/friends-of-gunmans-mother-his-first-victim-recall-her-as-generous.html?hp&_r=0

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“You hear gun shots around here all the time" Newtown (Original Post) otohara Dec 2012 OP
That's difficult to believe. Nomalized to dipshit behavior? Well ok. Loudly Dec 2012 #1
I hear shots around my place nearly every day n/t doc03 Dec 2012 #2
Are you in town or out in the sticks? ManiacJoe Dec 2012 #4
Not in a town but not really in the sticks either, it's in the country doc03 Dec 2012 #5
That makes a bit more sense. ManiacJoe Dec 2012 #8
That's some crazy stuffl Loudly Dec 2012 #3
They aren't breaking any laws. n/t doc03 Dec 2012 #6
No One Paid Attention Either otohara Dec 2012 #9
Used to hear shots when I lived in Wisconsin 40 years ago LeftInTX Dec 2012 #7
 

Loudly

(2,436 posts)
1. That's difficult to believe. Nomalized to dipshit behavior? Well ok.
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:28 AM
Dec 2012

If gun ownership by the rabble is the standard.

doc03

(35,148 posts)
5. Not in a town but not really in the sticks either, it's in the country
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:10 AM
Dec 2012

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)
8. That makes a bit more sense.
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:24 AM
Dec 2012

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)
3. That's some crazy stuffl
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:32 AM
Dec 2012

Close it down. Shut it off if you hear it. If you hear rounds being fired, notify the authorities immediately.

 

otohara

(24,135 posts)
9. No One Paid Attention Either
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 01:12 PM
Dec 2012

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

(24,560 posts)
7. Used to hear shots when I lived in Wisconsin 40 years ago
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:20 AM
Dec 2012

Neighborhood kids would be hunting small game.

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