Your suggestion that more guns would have prevented deaths invites a violent, medieval society where violence can only be stopped by more violence. Where the good guy comes out with guns blazing and blows away the bad guys. Pretty much the type of situation that Hollywood just loves to portray all the time. And exactly the same fantasy that Cho Seung-hui doubtless imagined he was part of just a few days ago. A lone hero, blowing away the bad guys.

If you really cannot see that more guns mean more death, and that a total unavailability of guns would make it much harder for this sort of thing to happen, then I fear there is no hope for America. Build a big wall across the bottom of Canada, I say, and leave The Idiots to it. I’m sure you’d waste no time in finding new and interesting ways to blow yourselves up, and right now, a USA-free planet is a happy thought indeed…

When will you get it through your thick skulls: these criminals have no regard for the law! They are complete cowards who seek out venues where they know they’ll be unopposed. Why don’t the gunmen make their last stand at a police station or military installation? Why do you think these massacres occur in states with stricter gun laws? Why do you never hear about such an incident in Utah or Idaho where (thankfully) guns are still allowed on university campuses?

Several years ago the worthless Utah State University school paper ran a series of brazenly slanted articles supporting a movement to ban all guns (which naturally means only the legal ones, because bans don’t affect criminals) from campus in Utah. They touted the fact that there had been 11 incidents on campus with concealed weapons as evidence to support their position. What they neglected to report was that ALL 11 INCIDENTS involved ILLEGALLY carried handguns. Nobody who went through the effort of being fingerprinted, background checked, trained, and licensed had ever caused a problem on campus!

And for all you nutjobs who want stricter gun control, instead of imposing your self-righteous, emotional, uninformed, weak-minded liberal politics on the rest of us, MOVE TO CANADA (OR BETTER YET, EUROPE) WHERE THEY HAVE IT ALL FIGURED OUT!!

Oh, and take Barbara Streisand with you. Some of us really had our hopes up there a couple of years ago; maybe she just forgot . . .

The kind of protection you´re talking about here, with more firearms to protect the “responsible” gun-toters from the madmen, is not only the worst solution to the problem of carrying firearms in the first place, but just plain insane. Why create that tension which exists when people carry arms in the first place?

I hope for the children of Virginia, and for the citizens of a dynamic and culturally complicated USA, that someone with the power to change the gun-status-quo, will do so. And soon. The blood of the students of VT is on the hands of not only this government, but on the panicky, on-guard gun-owners across the US.

(And the idea of having students bearing arms to school, guns shuffling through their bags, putting their weapons on the desk beside their pens, is grotesque to say the least.)

http://www.physorg.com/news95408605.html

Any logical person should not be suprised by such results.