Comments on: The VA Tech shootings and gun control http://www.bloggernews.net/16056 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:58:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: HC http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-16225 HC Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:17:04 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-16225 Stop making bullets! I think that's final solution. You can buy any kind of gun you wish but you only can buy one or two bullets for protection. Think about this, if you have a powerful gun but there is no bullets, your gun become useless. I think that's only solution! Stop making bullets! I think that’s final solution. You can buy any kind of gun you wish but you only can buy one or two bullets for protection. Think about this, if you have a powerful gun but there is no bullets, your gun become useless.
I think that’s only solution!

]]> By: hugo http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14800 hugo Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:23:19 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14800 no one will walk into a classroom full of armed students,why don't we just deputize everyone.we all seem to think that if we have a badge it's ok to have a gun. right? no one will walk into a classroom full of armed students,why don’t we just deputize everyone.we all seem to think that if we have a badge it’s ok to have a gun. right?

]]> By: Jeffrey Merchant http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14720 Jeffrey Merchant Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:12:47 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14720 Japan has the toughest gun control laws in the world... Look at how well they worked in preventing the murder of the mayor of Nagasaki. Law abiding people obey laws, everyone else will find a way around them. For the past several years nearly 35 states have passed formal "right to carry concealed weapons laws". More responsible citizens, trained in the lawful use of deadly force are carrying guns than ever before and crime is in recession. Japan has the toughest gun control laws in the world… Look at how well they worked in preventing the murder of the mayor of Nagasaki. Law abiding people obey laws, everyone else will find a way around them. For the past several years nearly 35 states have passed formal “right to carry concealed weapons laws”. More responsible citizens, trained in the lawful use of deadly force are carrying guns than ever before and crime is in recession.

]]> By: William Stransky http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14655 William Stransky Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:14:51 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14655 Please don't listen to the stupid British press, who have been brainwashed by years of anti-gun propaganda by the BBC. Britons please mind your own business you have a runaway crime problem with hoodies and hooligan behaviour that would stop in a day with more liberal gun laws. I live in London and it is a really crap place to live compared to the USA, I can't wait to go back. Please don’t listen to the stupid British press, who have been brainwashed by years of anti-gun propaganda by the BBC.
Britons please mind your own business you have a runaway crime problem with hoodies and hooligan behaviour that would stop in a day with more liberal gun laws.
I live in London and it is a really crap place to live compared to the USA, I can’t wait to go back.

]]> By: William Stransky http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14654 William Stransky Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:10:15 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14654 The irony is that this tragedy was caused by the university crushing the rights of the students to own and bear arms. If students were allowed carry permits by the university then not nearly as many people would have been killed. It is the liberal anti-gun lobby that is responsible for this tradedy by limiting the right of the second ammendment. I have seen the devastating effects that happen when guns are restricted as in South Africa where I used to live, the crime rate has gone through the roof. I think you Americans must fight now even harder and protect your gun rights from the lunatic left. The irony is that this tragedy was caused by the university crushing the rights of the students to own and bear arms.
If students were allowed carry permits by the university then not nearly as many people would have been killed.
It is the liberal anti-gun lobby that is responsible for this tradedy by limiting the right of the second ammendment.
I have seen the devastating effects that happen when guns are restricted as in South Africa where I used to live, the crime rate has gone through the roof.
I think you Americans must fight now even harder and protect your gun rights from the lunatic left.

]]> By: John W. http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14600 John W. Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:14:48 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14600 If the government cannot enforce gun restrictions in the area of VT's four square mile campus, what on earth makes you think it will be enforced in a four million square mile nation like America? Had this event occured off-campus, in the thousands of safe public places in Virginia where law-abiding citizens can legally carry guns, then the vast majority of the students shot would be alive to today. It’s as simple as that. If the government cannot enforce gun restrictions in the area of VT’s four square mile campus, what on earth makes you think it will be enforced in a four million square mile nation like America?

Had this event occured off-campus, in the thousands of safe public places in Virginia where law-abiding citizens can legally carry guns, then the vast majority of the students shot would be alive to today. It’s as simple as that.

]]> By: Unidentified http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14595 Unidentified Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:05:17 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14595 No one just kills for "no reason", even if the victims are random, and especially "without thinking". This individual had an agenda, and followed it. Stricter gun laws and enforcement will not quell the violence. I look to Narcotics as an example, which have been heavily outlawed for decades - yet, drug trafficking and drug-related crimes are one of the biggest problems this country. Banning and regulating firearms would be no different. During the Automatic Weapons Ban which expired in '04, Automatic weapons were still prevailent in this country via the black market and underground activity. People like to think that it's possible to prevent things like this by just beefing up security, and that these incidendes only happen at schools and universities. More people are killed in their places of work from firearms, yet no one's saying every business needs higher security. You can't monitor 300 million people (the U.S. population) 24/7. You also can't take away our rights - which includes the right to bear arms. Eliminating that would be unconstitunial, and wouldn't solve our problem. Blame our culture for this, not our constitituional rights. No one just kills for “no reason”, even if the victims are random, and especially “without thinking”. This individual had an agenda, and followed it.

Stricter gun laws and enforcement will not quell the violence. I look to Narcotics as an example, which have been heavily outlawed for decades - yet, drug trafficking and drug-related crimes are one of the biggest problems this country. Banning and regulating firearms would be no different. During the Automatic Weapons Ban which expired in ‘04, Automatic weapons were still prevailent in this country via the black market and underground activity. People like to think that it’s possible to prevent things like this by just beefing up security, and that these incidendes only happen at schools and universities. More people are killed in their places of work from firearms, yet no one’s saying every business needs higher security. You can’t monitor 300 million people (the U.S. population) 24/7. You also can’t take away our rights - which includes the right to bear arms. Eliminating that would be unconstitunial, and wouldn’t solve our problem. Blame our culture for this, not our constitituional rights.

]]> By: rg http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14573 rg Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:13:16 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14573 this was a really bad inciddent how can some one just kill people for no reason and do it with out thinking this was a really bad inciddent how can some one just kill people for no reason and do it with out thinking

]]> By: Donald Clarke http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14558 Donald Clarke Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:51:58 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14558 Of course, the tool that he used matters. Nowhere else in the western world would such a man be able to get hold of a hand gun and there is no way that he could have killed 30 people with any other readily available weapon. As one poster above says, the notion that an enraged lover is going to spend weeks constructing a bomb is simply absurd. You can babble on about motivation as long as you like, but the undeniable fact is that if the gun laws in VA were the same as those in, say, the United Kingdom then the vast majority of the students shot would be alive to today. It's as simple as that. Of course, the tool that he used matters. Nowhere else in the western world would such a man be able to get hold of a hand gun and there is no way that he could have killed 30 people with any other readily available weapon. As one poster above says, the notion that an enraged lover is going to spend weeks constructing a bomb is simply absurd. You can babble on about motivation as long as you like, but the undeniable fact is that if the gun laws in VA were the same as those in, say, the United Kingdom then the vast majority of the students shot would be alive to today. It’s as simple as that.

]]> By: Howard Jones http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14474 Howard Jones Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:07:23 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14474 Ask an Iraqi near you what gun control has done for them lately. Ask an Iraqi near you what gun control has done for them lately.

]]> By: Jason Easley http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14448 Jason Easley Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:08:05 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14448 Look at it as a threat assessment. Does it make sense for a person who might have been upset about a girlfriend to shoot 30 innocent people? No, it does not. The tool which he used to kill does not matter, in this case. The underlying reasons for why he did what he did are what matters. If he was intent on causing mass death, or taking out his anger on the world, does it really matter what he used to to do it? Look at it as a threat assessment. Does it make sense for a person who might have been upset about a girlfriend to shoot 30 innocent people? No, it does not. The tool which he used to kill does not matter, in this case. The underlying reasons for why he did what he did are what matters. If he was intent on causing mass death, or taking out his anger on the world, does it really matter what he used to to do it?

]]> By: robert tuttle http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14390 robert tuttle Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:50:20 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16056#comment-14390 A bomb? Do you really think that someone angry at his girlfriend is going to walk in to a dormitory, confront her, get angry and then detonate a bomb? And then walk over to another building on campus and walk through the building indescriminately blowing up bombs whenever he confronts someone? Does such a scinereo make sense? A bomb? Do you really think that someone angry at his girlfriend is going to walk in to a dormitory, confront her, get angry and then detonate a bomb? And then walk over to another building on campus and walk through the building indescriminately blowing up bombs whenever he confronts someone? Does such a scinereo make sense?

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