At least 31 people dead at Virginia Tech University. The deadliest school/university shooting in US history…
Sad to say I hear it hear first…
Whoops…
Yes, I have been watching the coverage all day. Unfortunately, thats what happens when you sell guns, liquor and cigarettes and bubble gum all in the same place.
some-ones head is going to roll for not letting the students know about the first shooting for freakin 2 hours!
corrected, unfortanatly, and the count is 32 dead now. the gun control laws are terrible in this contry, F-ing NRA
This will start some emotional debate here, but I agree with you.
Guns don’t kill people, people with guns kill people.
Try killing 30 people with a knife…
This is an unbelievable tragedy. It makes me sick to think about it. I can’t understand how this stuff keeps happening in our country. Something has got to change.
Oh great, there goes the second amendment fading away.
When guns are prohibited, law abiding citizens will obey the law, criminals will not.
In today’s society of limitations on gun ownership and carrying laws, those law abiding citizens who would have taken it upon them self to get trained and protect the lives and liberties of them self and those around them, were not present at this shooting and were not able to stop this person before killing many victims.
Hey guys, let’s give this one a day before we turn it into a political debate, k? Like Det-riot said, it’s the worst shooting in American history.
Think we can do that?
Damn liberals.
The gun laws are fine…if anything we could use more freedom with the gun rules and laws.
The guns aren’t the thing to blame, the person is the one who shot them. Guns dont grow feet and walk to schools to shoot kids.
exactly…the dems dont get it. This thread is going to turn into a huge gun control debate again now. It’s the person to blame ppl! NOt the Gun!
agreed
I agree
Edit: I think the death number is up to 33
Without guns being so readily available this crazy people who go on shooting rampages would have nothing to use on their shooting rampages.
Correct, guns do not have feet.
But gun’s are an easy to get weapon that can easily kill a large amount of people, in a short amount of time.
We do not know what a person is thinking, so therefore this person who decides to go on a shooting rampage cannot be stopped until it is too late.
If gun laws were more strict, less people would be roaming the streets with these deadily weapons.
Apparently an email was sent out after the second shooting… I would like to think that UMaine (where I go to school) would send out an email to everyone on campus and instruct people to stay out of sight after something as horrific as this.
Could one of the American contributors to this forum please take the time to explain to the rest of us the rationale for permitting almost unlimited access to firearms in the USA? I mean an explanation in terms of the benefit to US society, versus the cost. I’d rather not hear the same tired dogma of “guns don’t kill people” and so on. I’d really like to know how the second amendment right you’ve been granted (at least the way it’s been interpreted by the courts) provides a net benefit to people. What does US society gain by this right, and what would you stand to lose if it were limited in some way? Are the lives lost every year to firearms just the unfortunate “cost of doing business”? How are your lives better now that 31 more people are dead? Is there really no recourse to take against crime other than everyone carrying a sidearm?
I’m not trying to provoke anyone. I respect and admire many aspects of the “American way of life”, at least in the abstract. But I really, really would like to try to understand how this state of affairs is justified.
Thanks for any thoughtful insight into this quite complex issue. And my heartfelt condolences to everybody affected by this.
DF
It’s ok guys, I’m sure the friends and family of the deceased are debating the merits of guns now too. So don’t feel bad at your insensitivity or anything silly like that.
Show some respect.
This stuff is terrible. Theres too much of this going on.
Living in the city with the highest murder rate in America, I can safely say that people are affected by this type of stuff everyday.
My condolences go out to the family and friends of those who were lost.