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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a huge amount of sympathy for Nancy Lanza. Hindsight is 20/20, but when you've been living in a situation like that, it can feel impossible. I came across this interview with the writer who told Adam's father's story to The New Yorker. Really good: https://www.npr.org/2014/03/13/289815818/6-interviews-1-reckoning-sandy-hook-killers-dad-breaks-silence

But apart from that, IMHO, we don't really need automatic and semi-automatic weapons for civilian use. They are designed to kill in volume.[/quote]

You might want that semi-automatic if you're a single parent and you're in a home invasion situation with multiple criminals.

You don't need an SUV or really a car either, but our country is one that is based on liberty.  [/quote]

Everybody has to decide the risks for themselves, but you or your special needs child are far more likely to kill yourselves with your own gun than die in a home invasion with multiple criminals.  We can't have a rational debate about guns in our society, or guns and mental illness in particular, because no matter what you say about it, there is a supposed right in the Constitution that you can have any type or number of weapons for any purpose without restrictions, regulations, registrations, limitations, checks  of any kind, and that this right extends without limit to all citizens, regardless of criminal history, past violent behavior, mental state or risk assessments of any kind.  Only the Second Amendment enjoys this type of limitless defense.  In some states, it's easier for an ex-convict to buy a gun than to vote.

If you have an autistic child at home, please don't have guns.  Suicide rates for autism and comorbid disorders are high.  If you must have a gun, please secure it so that your child cannot get the gun.  Most suicide attempts fail, but most suicide attempts with guns succeed. Mental illness and guns don't mix.
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