If that is true then the NRA doesn't stand a chance and neither does Congress. All the lobby money in the world from the NRA means crap if the folks don't vote for and elect those spineless wimps. Are you gun parents gonna do something about it?
The "high powered gun" used was actually less powerful than a standard hunting rifle ... and operated the same way as any semi-auto hunting rifle. If we took away all the AR-15 and AK-74 rifles ... people would just use hunting rifles.
Take away all firearms? Well, now someone could resort to using propane tanks. Remember the Boston Marathon bombing?
(and there was a major gas line within a block of the school, from what I saw watching the videos)
It all just reinforces my belief that there needs to be more energy spent on finding out WHY these people feel it's okay to kill others.
Maybe since he was taken alive (unlike the vast majority of such killers), it will progress our understanding.
Not "understanding" in excusing the behavior, but in preventing it.