Friday’s monstrosity in Connecticut certainly informs the general case
for gun control: In a society saturated with as many guns as the United
States — 270 million, by one count — people bent on mayhem have too-easy
access to the most efficient tools of the trade. But it also
illustrates with horrifying clarity just how far the country has to go
to if gun control is to be the primary solution to rampage killings.
Connecticut has relatively liberal gun laws. There are reports Adam Lanza recently tried to purchase weapons, but was rebuffed due to the statutory waiting period. All three weapons were legally owned by and registered to Lanza’s mother. And while images of the scary-looking Bushmaster .223 rifle have been circulating the Internet with horrified adjectives attached (“this is legal?!”), the National Post‘s resident firearms expert, Matt Gurney, assures me that the rifle, and the Sig Sauer and Glock pistols found with Lanza — or very comparable weapons — are legal and available in Canada.
Getting the entire United States to adopt the level of gun control currently in effect in Connecticut would be a Herculean political undertaking. I hope they get there. But Connecticut’s gun control laws didn’t stop Adam Lanza from murdering 20 six- and seven-year-olds, and seven adults, in cold blood. There’s no reason to believe it can’t happen again in Connecticut, let alone in Texas, North Dakota, Vermont or any other loose-on-guns state.
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Connecticut has relatively liberal gun laws. There are reports Adam Lanza recently tried to purchase weapons, but was rebuffed due to the statutory waiting period. All three weapons were legally owned by and registered to Lanza’s mother. And while images of the scary-looking Bushmaster .223 rifle have been circulating the Internet with horrified adjectives attached (“this is legal?!”), the National Post‘s resident firearms expert, Matt Gurney, assures me that the rifle, and the Sig Sauer and Glock pistols found with Lanza — or very comparable weapons — are legal and available in Canada.
Getting the entire United States to adopt the level of gun control currently in effect in Connecticut would be a Herculean political undertaking. I hope they get there. But Connecticut’s gun control laws didn’t stop Adam Lanza from murdering 20 six- and seven-year-olds, and seven adults, in cold blood. There’s no reason to believe it can’t happen again in Connecticut, let alone in Texas, North Dakota, Vermont or any other loose-on-guns state.
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