Newtown report shows massacre was misused
Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 9:55 am
Now that an official report at last has been issued about the school massacre in Newtown almost a year ago, two conclusions are fairly drawn.
First, the massacre has been used for political purposes whose accomplishment would have done nothing to prevent or diminish it.
That is, Adam Lanza was able to commit the atrocity not because he had access to the particular rifles and high-capacity magazines that Connecticut since has outlawed but rather because his equally crazy mother kept feeding his interest in guns and kept many guns in their home even as her son's alienation grew more extreme. Exchanging Nancy Lanza's guns and magazines for guns and magazines remaining legal would have left nearly as many people dead if not all of them.
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Chris Powell is managing editor of the Journal Inquirer.
