Huh. The only thing that stopped this shooter at a kid's summer camp...

[pdq]

Lemon Drop wrote:
"According to public records, Ned had a criminal history that included convictions for intoxication manslaughter, drug possession and unlawfully carrying a gun."

And yet, there he is with a gun. It's almost as though easy access to guns is a problem.

Hmm...let's see (paging through stock NRA retorts). Ah! Here it is. If we make guns criminal, only criminals will have guns.

If he had a clean record, it would have been "There was no way that this could have been prevented, but (ridiculously easy) access to guns had nothing to do with it."

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