The worst mass shooting in US history

[TightEnd]

words at first failed me about today's events at Virginia Tech

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134671/?GT1=9246


then I began to ponder gun cultures, the availability of weapons over the counter in the US and furthermore

how strange it seems that a University could choose to email all on campus as events are unfolding and the gunman is being sought to tell them not to go outside...a very modern and strangely chilling response by the authorities I thought

I am disturbed tonight.

[tikay]

A truly dreadful tragedy.

NRA Rules in Ameica, so it will never change.

It's too sad.

[scotty2hatty]

Some world we live in.  Crazy.

[Tragic]

It's tragic that modern cultures can create people that do this, good job we at least don't give them guns.

[Rod Paradise]

The weird thing is Canada has a higher gun/population ratio - but seems a hell of a lot safer WRT gun crime.

[Poppet7]

Really sad news.

[thetank]

Pointless tragedy

[AndrewT]

The weird thing is Canada has a higher gun/population ratio - but seems a hell of a lot safer WRT gun crime.

This kind of thing is separate from usual 'gun crime'. When people refer to gun crime they usually mean the relentless cases of robberies, burgalries etc which you get in the US (which is mainly fuelled by the huge disparity between the rich and poor in the US).

Cases like this are different - they can happen anywhere as they are committed by one-off nutcases. Remember Dunblane and Hungerford, which happened here? The two biggest spree killings in the world were committed by men who had no previous criminal history (South Korean policeman has argument with girlfriend, gets drunk and goes to the armoury to get tooled up before sweeping through villages and mentally retarded Tasmanian kills people in his town for no apparant reason).

It's worth noting that 33 people were killed by guns at the university yesterday. On average, about 30 people are killed by guns every day in the US.

[mex]

guns don't kill people................people kill people.

[marcro]

guns don't kill people................people kill people.

Yep but people with guns make it much easier for people to kill people.

[bolt pp]

guns don't kill people................people kill people.

If you had to go and kill 33 people with your bare hands i'm sure you'd find something better to do that day

[matt674]

Was watching this on the news and they were interviewing a man from Texas i believe who was one of these people who believed that guns were not a problem.

During the interview they asked him how he would stop these mass killings from happening again and his reply was "Give everyone a gun, have all students walk round college with a firearm. This way there will never be another mass killing on this kind of scale because one of the students would have shot the gunman before it got that far"!!

Only in America............

[BigTomatoes]

 Matt , that is a right wing , vietnam veteran kind of opinion , im listening to a radio phone in just now and this is the hosts
 opinion , they are anti - gun control , they believe in their right to defend themselves from would be robbers , rapists etc.

 and i think they are using this event as a political opportunity to express those views .

 this was exactly what the host said '' if the gun control laws did not stop the students from their right to defend themselves by having a gun , this son of a bitch would maybe have killed 4 or 5 people before one of the students or professors killed the piece of shit ''

 apparently there were several bomb threats on the campus this week , and the place has been swarming with FBI , and '' every cop in the state , and neighbouring states ''

 you definitely havent heard the last of this event , this is stirring up some major concern and debates and no doubt political action in the USA

 no doubt a horrific tragedy and my thoughts and prayers are with the victims families and friends.

[NoflopsHomer]

"There is no connection between having a gun and shooting somebody and not having a gun and not shooting someone. And anyone that suggests otherwise is a fool and a Communist."

[NoflopsHomer]

If you want to bear arms - wear t-shirts.