tryan
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One thing we can all agree on ... making guns illegal would be as effective as our current drug laws .... only those who use them illegally will find them.
brewer12345 said:Or Islamunifascists, right?
Because if they make a mistake about the identity they will get sued. I'm a big one for conspiracy theories, but making sure of the identity before they release it doesn't seem like much of a conspiracy.newguy888 said:I have a bad feeling here. There is a preliminary ID of the dead shooter but we are not getting any info of this person.
Gotta wonder why info is being withheld.
Gotta talk to the families first.riskaverse said:Because if they make a mistake about the identity they will get sued. I'm a big one for conspiracy theories, but making sure of the identity before they release it doesn't seem like much of a conspiracy.
Nords said:Gotta talk to the families first.
livnlow said:A one person Chinese army has some people talking about giving up our right to bear arms. I would have thought a larger invasion would have been required. No force is required to strip an American of his rights. Just scare him a little and he'll be throwing away his rights in exchange for "safety". Seems familiar. The world is watching and learning.
Ironically, one armed American could have stopped the carnage before 32 innocent Americans were slaughtered by a foreigner.
TromboneAl said:Are you saying that a disgruntled, non-athletic kid (that is, not a Navy Seal) could kill 31 people at a school with a knife?
livnlow said:A one person Chinese army has some people talking about giving up our right to bear arms. I would have thought a larger invasion would have been required. No force is required to strip an American of his rights. Just scare him a little and he'll be throwing away his rights in exchange for "safety". Seems familiar. The world is watching and learning.
Ironically, one armed American could have stopped the carnage before 32 innocent Americans were slaughtered by a foreigner.
Joss said:It's stunning how common it is in this age to blame the weapon rather than even voice the question: How could a human being be able to do this?
Is this because we are too horrified to contemplate an answer? If we don't ask the question, perhaps we won't have to directly address what our societies are becoming - and why?
Or have we become so shallow and ignorant, now, that it no longer even occurs to us?
Either, candidly, disgusts me.
I admit ignorance about this kind ofcweaponry. My opinion mostly relates to the need for weapons that can reload fast (?) and do a rampage in a crowd. If this guy have had no access to such a weapon the students would have been able to jump on the guy and control him. (well... easier said than done...)lets-retire said:Perinova--Just to be fair the military doesn't even use assault weapons any more. The M-16 is not capable of shooting full auto, one thing that is required of an assault weapon. The only weapons that actually shoot fully automatic are too large and bulky to be classified as an assault weapon. The last ban was on scary looking military style weapons, not assault weapons. A person must have a firearms license to own the old school assault weapons. I do not have one, but Know several people who have the license and from what they said they went through a very thorough back ground check lasting several months.
In the situation at VT, an assault weapon wasn't used, so how would banning them have made the campus safer?
chained some exits to prevent escape