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Also, the shooter was NOT representative of gun owners..."

As far as we know, the shooter wasn't an owner at all; it was his mom who owned those guns.

Was she representative? I'm guessing she thought so, and I'm guessing she considered herself the very model of responsible gun ownership. Nonetheless, her negligence in keeping those guns and all that ammo, in a house she shared with a son with a troubled history, enabled those killings, her own first.

The pro-gun side talks about Connecticut's "strict gun laws," but Newtown was already well along in being taken over by gun nuts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/nyregion/in-newtown-conn-a-stiff-resistance-to-gun-restrictions.html?ref=nyregion&_r=1&

...Yet recent efforts by the police chief and other town leaders to gain some control over the shooting and the weaponry turned into a tumultuous civic fight, with traditional hunters and discreet gun owners opposed by assault weapon enthusiasts, and a modest tolerance for bearing arms competing with the staunch views of a gun industry trade association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which has made Newtown its home.

If you're "shooting for responsibility" you need to aim better.