To hell in a handbasket....

[Joel]

Hughes said the student brought the revolvers from his home, where they had been locked in a gun safe.

So they were stolen or gotten illegally like they are in so many of these cases.

Joel

[az]

??

Doesn't your quote say he got them from home?

AZ

[Joel]

It also says they were in a locked gun safe which means he took them without permission which in my boat is stealing. So they were still gotten illegally by him.

Joel

[Wombat]

Of course it is easy to get a weapon on the black market. Still it's more of a hassle than just going into the cellar and picking up father's gun - and requires a little more planning or at least effort, so it'll give a kid time to "cool down".

Actually, no it doesn't. I'd say it's easier to buy a gun from some guy at school than it is to take one from your house.

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by Pace
If I was wanting to buy a gun, I wouldn't know where to go - other than the US.

You haven't seen Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels have you? Just find some guy whose name ends in "the Greek" and he will get you a gun.

[az]

Joel: The only thing this really means is that his parents haven't locked the gun(s?) away properly. Sure he stole them - but he shouldn't have been able to in the first place. (See, if this household had owned no weapons, it wouldn't have been that easy for him to get access to a weapon)

Wombat: This is absolutely not the case here. It's harder to get your dad's gun because he will most likely don't have one, but I really wouldn't have gotten a weapon at school - and I wouldn't have known where to get one. And I think at least part of the reason is that there are not as many legal guns that can get stolen, lost, etc.

It's really different here. There's no need to own a gun for protection from people who own a gun...

AZ