I’d kind of agree with that policy of no weapons - at least for students.
Admin and staff and faculty should be allowed to have them, though.
Students - this day & age, they are too selfish and immoral and I can see shootings happening “just because he dissed me”.
If any of this shooter's weapons were obtained illegally, the suppliers need to be facing every charge on the books, including conspiracy to commit 22 counts of murder.
Yeah, that's the standard lib line tossed out. Folks are too irresponsible and it'll be just like the wild west. There's no truth to it whatsoever. It's not something a rational person would say. It's something a know it all feels inside. It's the std line of the selfish and immoral gun grabbers that don't give a damn about women being able to effectively defend themselves on campus against rapists use. Had someone chosen to effectively defend themselves, they could have put an early end to this nighmarish tragedy. It could have been a woman, whose motivation was to protect herself against the common rapist.
"Admin and staff and faculty should be allowed to have them, though.
The first shooting was at ~7:23. The campus was already loaded with cops by the time the 2nd occurred. The bulk of those that were killed never got the benefit of police response. As is usual, hte polic showed up to count the bodies and are now investigating.
BTW. I am still waiting to hear the status of my best friend's daughter who is a sophomore engineering student at Virginia Tech. Thank you.
You seem to have it in spades. Thank you for your sensible comments.
It would be far better if we dumped all the privacy and libel and anti-discrimination law that prevents colleges from weeding out irresponsible and/or unstable students. A kid applying to a college can have lengthy and serious psych and juvenile criminal histories, and the admissions staff isn't allowed to know anything about it except what the student chooses to tell. And they have a hard time rejecting students who provide info about a psych history, or kicking out students who display mental instability after they arrive, because of the ADA.
Granted, plenty of colleges would continue to take these kids even knowing their backgrounds, just for the money (though if the government weren't paying for a huge chunk of it, few parents would be willing to fork over huge sums to send a seriously messed up kid to college). But individual colleges should be free to set standards for student admission and continuation, that would make it safe to allow the student body to have adult responsibilities such as concealed carry.
My oldest daughter was recently “accosted” by three black, (yes black) males on a deserted street where she was jogging at night (about 10:30pm). She pulled out a firearm with a laser pointer. They ran. Thank God you were not her father. Yes they ran. She is a college student and had to forget that she had a firearm when she made her police report.
The police thought that the persons who accosted her were involved in a recent killing and multiple armed robberies. PS They ran. She chased them. They ran. Again they ran. The only real dangers she faces are laws that criminalize her defending herself.
“I’d kind of agree with that policy of no weapons - at least for students.
Admin and staff and faculty should be allowed to have them, though”
thats right, arm the Leftists