Virginia Shootings: Your Reaction

BBC ^ | 04/17/2007

[brivette]

"How can such incidents be prevented from happening again?"

They can't.

[Hyzenthlay]

Back in Jan. 06 there was legislation concerning concealed-carry in VA after a student got in trouble for bringing a legally registered concealed gun on the VT campus. The legislators apparently decided that different rules apply once you walk on campus...

It’s not the only campus where normal-people laws don’t seem to apply.

[TMSuchman]

With all that I have seen in the news over the last several years, leads me to believe that the evil one is either here or on the way soon.

I have no proof of this but just my “gut” feelings, which has not failed me yet..

[mdittmar]

Scary

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry

[oyez]

This tragic event is the start of the next one.

[Kevmo]

That’s a good point. Students are citizens and have the right to defend themselves. The organization that spearheads issues like this is

FIRE:
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

http://www.thefire.org/

[abigailsmybaby]

Yeah, I know. That’s where my Constitution-free wisecrack came from.

[Eclectica]

There were no gun buy-back programs in the VT area.

:)

[CremeSaver]

Sorry, but the comments at the Telegraph are actually worse than these, although even they don't compare to reader comments at The Sun. I dislike these people A LOT.

[DelRoy]

That his roommate didn’t know him says more to me then this being a gun problem. 22,000 students and not one knew this follow! We’re are just too much into ourselfs and what is in it for me.Am I my brothers keeper?

[Charlespg]

Who cares what these serfs think