The idiot at Tech had a long history of mental problems and was ignored, the real problem is with the officials who ignored his crys for help, not the gun nor the guy who sold it to him…

It’s always easy to blame the the other guy instead of taking responsibility for what really happened. Today’s communist movement is all about political correctness and gun control…

Remember it was Trotsky who invented PC and all the people who follow in it’s path are what Lenin described as Useful Idiots…

Generation X Virginian

After the Oklahoma City bombing, it was possible to put stricter controls on high nitrate fertilizers because the 2nd amendment does not grant a right to keep and bear fertilizer. You can get it, but not as anonymously nor as easily as before. After incidents like this, there are those who talk about trying to make guns more difficult to obtain but they will never be successful.

So since we can’t control guns, we need to put stricter controls on people. If I hear any crazy talk from anyone, I want to be able to have treated like an enemy combatant. Guilty until proven innocent. You write some crazy stuff that upsets your English teacher you get disappeared. That will put a stop to all this killing.

You people think the freedom to own a gun pre-empts the freedom to live without being murdered?!? Are you kidding me?

Here’s a good analogy: why arent box cutters allowed on an airplane? I mean its not the box cutters that kill people, its the *person* right?

But pretty much everyone can see the point in this: regardless of it being the fault of the person, its simply too dangerous to allow box cutters to be on a plane, because there is the potential for many people to die as we saw on 911.

So if we are going to play it safe with box cutters, dont you think we ought to play it at least as safe with 9mm semi-automatic murder machines? Its the *exact* *same* thing people. Another great example is DWI – same thing.

People dont need to have box cutters on planes.

People dont need to drink and drive.

People dont *need* to have guns.

People do *need* to be able to go about their lives without being shot.

The problem is deep in American culture and things need to change on so many levels. Guns arent cool and its time for people (and Hollywood) to grow up and realize this.

As far as Elmo’s comment ‘This is the price we all have agreed to pay for the right to keep and bear arms.’ I’ll make this very clear to you:

My children’s lives should not have to be at risk so that some red-neck retard who is too stupid to do something useful with his life, can pretend he’s ‘cool’ shooting tin cans in his backyard with a ‘glock.

I never agreed to ‘pay any price’, and most people in this country agree with me.

Guns are murder weapons plain and simple.

Semi-automatic guns should be illegal, background checks should be greatly improved, and people need to open up and realize that guns arent ‘cool’ and stop buying into this nonsense.

Grow up.

It is in the government’s best interest for the people to feel empowered to defend themselves but to actually be effectively powerless. That’s terrible. We should all be ashamed that our country turned down this path.

–Jarrod

The shootings at VT are the result of gun control. Because of gun control, adults were not permitted to defend themselves or the minors in their care.

On the other hand, what’s the death of 32 people anyway? We abort more than a million in this country every year. Each one of them holds the potential for greatness.

Because he used a gun, the shooter is considered evil. If he had used medical equipment and killed for profit, many of you would probably consider him a hero.

Why is everyone in this country so acquiesce to weakness and cowardice? Don’t people realize that the only person responsible for your own safety is YOU! The police cannot be there 24 hours a day to protect you. Try being a responsible man for once in your life and not a sheep waiting to be victimized. I will never be a victim by anyone who will attempt take my rights or my life.

This country was founded on certain principles, the rights to free speech, choice of religion, freedom of assembly, and the right to keep and bear arms. If you don’t agree with those principles then you need to move to Canada or France. Stop trying to change my country! I am a free American citizen. No man has the right to deny me my basic human rights, including the right to self protection. This is supposed to be a free society. The government should not have the power to punish everyone for the actions of a few.

We need to look at how our society functions. Mainstream media promotes violence, gangsterism, sexism, and a complete lack of morality. Turn on your television and what do you see? Rappers glorifying drug use, murder, and disrespect of women. Anna Nicole Smith. Girls Gone Wild. Must I go on?

When you deny people the right to carry a concealed weapon on a college campus you create a “criminal empowerment zone”. The only people affected by gun control are those who obey the law. Criminals don’t follow laws, that’s why they’re criminals. One student or faculty member with a concealed pistol could have saved perhaps every life taken at VA Tech.

Netmonger, not allowing box cutters or anything else on an airplane that could be used as a weapon creates a weapons free environment on that airplane. It levels the playing field. That has no relevance on a country as a whole. Criminals have guns. Gun control only takes guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens. Do you want to ban alcohol because people *may* drink and drive? Maybe we should ban cars. Or cigarettes? I bet those kill alot more people than guns.

Let me let you in on a little secret. Most gun owners aren’t “redneck retards”, but people who aren’t afraid of being responsible American citizens. Maybe one day YOU will grow up.

There are probably bollards between the street and the exits of the gym just to prevent someone slamming into crowds of people. What is the the equivalent for firearms? Declaring a school a “weapon free zone” did not seem to stop Mr. Cho from being armed. He happened to get his 2 pistols legally, but gang bangers do not. More gun control, as in NYC, does not keep weapons out of the hands of bad guys. Has laws against possession of Crack kept it off the streets?

Mr. Cho entered the German class, shot and killed people, left, and then returned to shoot some more. The police were still “reacting”. If 5% of the people in the building where he was killing had been armed (the % of people in FL. with Concealed Carry Permits), perhaps he would have been stopped after the first 5 victims fell to his madness. Perhaps not, but think of the terror of the surviving students in the German class (their professor was already dead) when he returned. All they had to protect themselves was a door that he shot through, and the failed hope for police intervention.
They deserved better, so do you, Netmonger, as do my family and me.