I’m surprised Newstimes printed this article, sure, there’s some liberal bias with the sentence: “The rifle that killed their stepdaughter and sister was the same kind of military-style rifle the family had shot together that Thanksgiving Day,” but overall it’s a pretty good article. Here are some excerpts.

“BETHLEHEM, Conn. (AP) — The Paradis and D’Avino family knows guns. They’ve owned them and enjoyed hunting and target shooting. Shooting was just part of life, like the time after Thanksgiving dinner in 2009 when a guest of husband and wife Peter Paradis and Mary D’Avino brought out an AR-15 rifle he had in the car.

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Paradis and D’Avino said they aren’t opposed to any gun control. Instead of enacting new federal laws, Paradis said, existing federal laws should be enforced. They also didn’t support Connecticut’s new gun laws that were passed in April that widened the definition of “assault weapon.” That law has banned hundreds of guns by declaring illegal any gun with more than one military-style feature, including pistol grip, a fixed magazine of more than 10 rounds, or a collapsible stock.

“The shooter in Newtown didn’t use an assault rifle, he used an assault-style rifle. It’s much different. He could have used a much larger caliber, the same semi-automatic stuff and he could have done a lot more damage,” Paradis said. “But hey, we all had political agendas, didn’t we?”

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Paradis said he and his family didn’t ride on Air Force One with family of Sandy Hook victims and the president, on a trip to lobby for new gun legislation. They spoke with Vice President Joe Biden, but did not meet with him when he visited Connecticut to call for tougher restrictions on guns.

“What am I going to do?” Paradis said. “I’m going to say I’m not for gun control. I’m not fitting the president’s agenda.” And neither, he and his stepdaughter believes, would Rachel.
Source: http://www.newstimes.com/news/crime/article/Family-of-Newtown-victim-rap-gun-control-politics-4851971.php

Build more prisons, enforce current laws, pure more crazies in the loony bin, that’s much better than treating the people that didn’t do it as potential criminals.