i had the opportunity this past year to speak with mr. lanza. >> adam lanza's father.hat was that meeting like for you? >> it was -- it felt good after i met with him and spoke with him. it was something i wanted to do and needed to do. it wasn't any answer to why it happened or what could have been done to prevent it. he was a father that lot of a son as i did. i said that last year. he is carrying a bigger burden than i am. our loved ones will be honored and remembered for the tragedy. they are victims. his son will be remembered as a massacre killer. mr. lanza was a very nice, very caring, very respectful person. it was clear he was somebody who loved his son and cared about his son very much. >> do you think he knew his son had deep problems in his life? >> from what i understand, it was clear he had some problems. he was stated that that was what happened and what adam had done was never something they could have expected in their wildest dreams. as with any of us. looking at the report that was released a week or two ago, i don't think adam's mother was afraid of

rules mandating some program of safe storage of weapons so that people can't be as careless as mrs. lanza seemingly was in leaving guns around where crazy people and criminals can get their hands on it? that's where the rule of reason has to enter in, and that's where it doesn't enter in. >> there was a surge of sanity on the part of politicians again after newtown. truth be told, and as we all know, very little has changed. how do you explain that? >> well, i think the extreme gun rights position, so called, some once called it "gun-damentalism" connects on a kind of spectrum to more normative attitudes. you have, as i said, reasonable gun owners. then you have the american consumer. the american consumer looks at the gun as it's a piece of property. the american consumer wants to use his property without restraint, wants to throw his plastic water bottle wherever he pleases, wants to drive a gas-guzzler, wants to play his boom box loud. which is a crude way to put it, and yet i think there's a lot to that. nobody wants to be bothered registering their weapons. take it a level down from