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Originally posted by FrozenDaggers
I thought they did close the school? Or they cancelled lessons or something & told everyone to stay in their rooms with doors/windows closed.
After the first shooting, they thought it was an isolated incident and simply said to students to report any dodgy behvaiour and they send some warning emails around, a few hours later (when the second shooting was already going on) :/ Nobody was send home, lessons went on as usual, etc after first shooting...
Police and headmsaters (or whatever) are twisting around in every direction to try and justify their (utterly stupid <= personal addition) reaction on it...
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It's sad what's happened. They still don't know if it was just the one guy, or if there were more people involved. :\
1 guy, south-korean student (US resident), 23 years old...
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Originally posted by Lourix
Nothing like this would ever happen in Europe, something must be done to ensure this doesn't happen again. But it has happened a few times hasn't it?
I wouldn't say 'ever'... But it sure is true that it almost never happens at all.. The big difference? The mentality and that whole stupid crap NRA and utterly ridiculus weapon laws.
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Originally posted by Weyzza
But, again, gun supporters will say, "Guns don't kill. People do."
yeah, wich is the biggest crap ever to use as an argument...
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Originally posted by Adeptus
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Originally posted by Weyzza
But, again, gun supporters will say, "Guns don't kill. People do."
Sure, they will. They will also be 100% correct.
If anything, this incident shows why gun restrictions are idiotic. Guns are prohibited on the VT campus by strictly enforced policy. That clearly didn't stop the psycho from having more than one. It stopped the sane students and staff from having guns to shoot the psycho with and end the rampage early.
We just recently discussed this in private... And with this incident my standpoint is even bigger as what I've said in PM before...
Anyways, now you're saying that it is the fault of the restriction on campus to carry a gun that this happened? Excuse me? Since when is taking law in your own hands been a solution for anything?
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The reason why this happened is firstly because of his instability and secondly because anyone can buy guns (and even semi-automatic weapons) without any background check or license or whatever!
In case you didn't already new, on average there are 2 shootings like this on campusses every year in the US!.
It is the bloody NRA and their power in politics which keep this going on.
Restricting gun access does NOT mean restricting hunting and other sports related to guns! It means people won't be able anymore to buy guns, just like that for no reason, without any instructions or education on how to handle them, etc... It also does not mean restricting access to freedom at all for that matter. What on earth does a normal person need a semi-automatic weapon for? Or even canons? Oh, and collecting guns and such can still be done btw, provided you have a license, prooven to be able to handle guns and a stabel background.
Another hard fact is that in extremely (way more than half) many cases where guns are used for self-defense, the gun is used AGAINST the persons who are trying to defend themselfs with it. And another big portion are all the accidents which happen with guns in home.
Only a small fraction of all incidents involves guns being used "successfully" to take law in your own hands. And for that matter, as I said before, since when is that a solution or even allowed?
And then Bush giving his greeves to the family... oh please... He better shut up and go back to what he does best: fucking up the environment (and be proud of it too), keeping the war in Irac going on (and beeing proud of it), pumping billions of dollars in lost causes, and giving guns to children...
He supports the gun law... Well then why does he also worry about other countries doing tests with bombs... Bombs don't kill people, people kill people... Blah, lets give the terrorists what they need anyways, as blue prints of how to blow up a building doesn't kill people, people kill people...
Sorry, but I think it is very clear by now that, personally, I find all this utterly crap, selfish, selfcentered, and extremely hypocritical...
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