The security at the campus could have been better. Students were not notified of the first shooting until almost 2 hours later, the “lockdown” of the campus did not mean classes were stopped and the classrooms actually did not contain locks. The police were slow to responding to the multiple shootings and took to surrounding the building instead of moving in.
You have to have a license to carry a concealed weapon, and in most buildings signing in is a requirement. However, I doubt sincerely that people that intend to kill others care at all about concealed weapons laws.
I think it was a tragedy first and foremost and my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families.
The killer alone caused the crime, but the high number of victims is directly caused by gun control.
They were just sitting ducks with no way to defend themselves much like the victims of Colin Ferguson. Concealed-carry advocates warned us all long ago to expect tragedies like this as long as we have gun control.
When only criminals have guns the rest of us can only ponder tactics like “notifications.”
In a state where concealed-carry is allowed or promoted, the loss of life could have been much less. He may have shot one or two, but a concealed-carrier would have dispatched him right quick.
Sadly there is no way to prevent a killer with a gun. In tribal Africa where there are no manufactured guns, tribesman make them from pipes and rubber-bands so clearly gun control is not the answer. You can make a gun out of wood in an hour! He could have stabbed just as many with a knife.
Since you will never stop the OFFENSE, we must allow ourselves a DEFENSE. We are not all of one culture anymore, so violence will only increase.
The only way to prevent these killing rampages is concealed-carry. Would you rather protect yourself or wait for the folly of police or school “notification?”
GUNS ARE PROHIBITED ON VIRGINA TECH PREMISES and look what still happened. Now, the only people who did not have guns were the honest, innocent people who obeyed the rules, and were slaughtered.
This is what will happen if the governement takes your guns. The criminals will still have them and the honest people will be left defenseless against those who wish to do them harm.
February 25th, 2010 - 21:13
Do you honestly think that shooter cared what the rules of gun ownership or gun possession was at that college campus?
February 25th, 2010 - 21:23
The security at the campus could have been better. Students were not notified of the first shooting until almost 2 hours later, the “lockdown” of the campus did not mean classes were stopped and the classrooms actually did not contain locks. The police were slow to responding to the multiple shootings and took to surrounding the building instead of moving in.
February 25th, 2010 - 21:37
You have to have a license to carry a concealed weapon, and in most buildings signing in is a requirement. However, I doubt sincerely that people that intend to kill others care at all about concealed weapons laws.
February 25th, 2010 - 21:52
I think it was a tragedy first and foremost and my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families.
The killer alone caused the crime, but the high number of victims is directly caused by gun control.
They were just sitting ducks with no way to defend themselves much like the victims of Colin Ferguson. Concealed-carry advocates warned us all long ago to expect tragedies like this as long as we have gun control.
When only criminals have guns the rest of us can only ponder tactics like “notifications.”
In a state where concealed-carry is allowed or promoted, the loss of life could have been much less. He may have shot one or two, but a concealed-carrier would have dispatched him right quick.
Sadly there is no way to prevent a killer with a gun. In tribal Africa where there are no manufactured guns, tribesman make them from pipes and rubber-bands so clearly gun control is not the answer. You can make a gun out of wood in an hour! He could have stabbed just as many with a knife.
Since you will never stop the OFFENSE, we must allow ourselves a DEFENSE. We are not all of one culture anymore, so violence will only increase.
The only way to prevent these killing rampages is concealed-carry. Would you rather protect yourself or wait for the folly of police or school “notification?”
February 25th, 2010 - 22:06
GUNS ARE PROHIBITED ON VIRGINA TECH PREMISES and look what still happened. Now, the only people who did not have guns were the honest, innocent people who obeyed the rules, and were slaughtered.
This is what will happen if the governement takes your guns. The criminals will still have them and the honest people will be left defenseless against those who wish to do them harm.