[tanknetter]

Everyone concerned about protecting their 2nd Amendment rights in the face of the cynical exploitation of the Newtown spree killing should be repeating the following:

"Petit family".

For those who don't know about that one, here's a brief synopsis from Wiki about the Petit family home invasion in Cheshire CT:

"During this time, Hayes and Komisarjevsky escalated the aggravated nature of their crimes. Komisarjevsky sexually assaulted the 11-year-old daughter, Michaela. Komisarjevsky, who had photographed the sexual assault of the youth on his cell phone, then provoked Hayes to rape Hawke-Petit. While Hayes was raping Hawke-Petit on the floor of her living room, Komisarjevsky entered the room announcing that William Petit had escaped. Hayes then strangled Hawke-Petit, doused her lifeless body and parts of the house including the daughters' rooms with gasoline. The daughters, while tied to their beds, had both been doused with gasoline; each had her head covered with a pillowcase. A fire was then ignited, and Hayes and Komisarjevsky fled the scene. 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela both died from smoke inhalation."

The father (William) escaped, but wasn't able to summon help in time. If he'd had a gun hidden in the house and knew how to, and was prepared to, use it, things would have turned out VERY differently.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Could you start a thread with that, please???

[Will_Zurmacht]

If that story doesn’t motivate someone to exercise their 2nd Amendment right, perhaps this one will:

http://www.wichita-massacre.com/

One of the most horrific crimes in America, largely unreported, for the, ahem, obvious reasons. If one of those young men or women had a firearm in the home, those young men and women would not have been raped, sodomized, humiliated, beaten, robbed and murdered in a snowy field. The fact that one girl lived to tell the tale was pure luck. Otherwise these monsters would still be wandering the streets. My case #1 when people question me about my firearms.