Steve Lopez: When people are being gunned down, shame on those who defend their right to personal arsenals
Several years after his mother was shot and killed and his father wounded in a 2005 rampage by a lone gunman in Thousand Oaks, Christian Heyne went to a gun show in Virginia with a couple of friends.
"I wanted to see if it was true that you could buy a gun without a background check," said Heyne, who by then was working in the gun control movement.
One of the two friends he was with that day had been shot four times in the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting massacre that left 32 people dead and 17 wounded. The other had lost a sister in that same attack.
Heyne took out his wallet at the gun show and bought a
