Adam Lanza: Blake Smith

Dave Burdett Dept: BRYAN, Texas -- Adam Lanza's mother was among the tens of millions of U.S. gun owners. She legally had a .223-calibre Bushmaster rifle and a pair of handguns, which her 20-year-old son used to kill 20 children and six adults in 10 minutes inside a Connecticut school, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Take Blake Smith, a mechanical engineer who lives near Houston and uses an AR-15 style rifle in shooting competitions and store owner Dave Burdett says the attachment to guns is rooted in U.S. history. In the raw aftermath of the second-worst school shooting in U.S. history, countless gun enthusiasts much like Lanza's mother complicate a gun-owning narrative critics, sometimes simplistically, put at the feet of a powerful lobby and caricatured zealots. More civilians are armed in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world, with Yemen coming in a distant second, according to the independent Small Arms Survey in Geneva. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.