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10. The gun came from the student's home.
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 04:04 PM
Apr 2013

It was locked in a gun safe.

The student, being intelligent, knew how and when he could obtain access to the safe. (Just as the Newtown CT student, also intelligent knew how to obtain access to his mother's gun safe.
Anyone who believes keeping guns in a gun safe is sufficient protection against a family member finding a way to get to the guns is fooling themselves. Maybe it will keep a toddler away from the guns, but not a sufficiently motivated person, who will watch and figure out t way. There really aren't too many well-kept secrets within a family - most family members know what is going on and how to get what they want, if not right now, then eventually.

I live in the county in which this tragedy took place. There is much upset at this turn of events.

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