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My Facebook response:

Like all parents and grandparents, I am horrified, outraged and heartbroken at the news of today’s senseless shooting spree. But unlike most people in this country, my view is a little different. You see I am a realist. I try to see the world as it is, not how it is advertised. Now we're gonna hear about how we need more gun control laws and how certain weapons should be made unlawful to own. I personally do not own a gun. However I believe it is the right of every red blooded American to own one. But here is the reality of owning a firearm. If you own a pitbull and that dog gets out of your yard and kills a neighbor's child YOU should be held responsible.... for the civil and criminal consequences. Gun ownership brings with it no less responsibility. The person who acquired, owned or registered the weapon used in this senseless tragedy is the responsible individual and should be prosecuted for the murder of 6 adults and 20 children. He or she is the one who failed to meet his/her obligations by failing to secure the weapon. He or she alone is the individual that allowed the pitbull to get loose and commit this unthinkable crime. I hear the rhetoric and the spin from the NRA and the Constitutional sabre rattlers about the right to own a firearm and frankly I agree. But it is the lack of acceptance of the responsibility that comes with that right that troubles me.