VA Tech official praised defeat of student self-defense proposal in 2006

One News Now ^ | 04.16.07 | Jeff Johnson

[rwgal]

i am sure it has already been said, but if only ONE of those college kids had a permit to carry and had a gun, there would not have been that many fatalities....

Meadow Muffin

[Coleus]

Exercising the Right, to KEEP and BEAR Arms

armed citizen

[BJClinton]

Earlier thread with source:

Gun bill gets shot down by panel (VA Tech - On Drudge)

[Red Badger]

Lawsuits are gonna be flying...........

[Kimmers]

I was thinking the same thing.....

[American Quilter]

This article is so right. The liberals, of course, will continue not to “get it”. Some of them are dewy-eyed dreamers who believe you can keep guns out of criminals’ hands if you just pass enough laws. Others do understand the point, but have no desire for Americans to be able to defend ourselves. If we’re not helpless and defenseless, we’ll be less likely to turn to the govt for help. And they can tyrannize us much more easily.

[rwgal]

Where has the common sense gone in this country? We trust a kid with a car, a credit card a rubber (pardon me), a drink, BUT we don’t trust them to be able to defend themselves...

Meadow Muffin

[tobyhill]

Anti-gun libs are doing nothing but enrolling naive kids into a suicide pact.

[freespirited]

Thirty-one people died in Blacksburg, VA today. The cause of death was liberalism.

[mo]

I wonder if there is any civil recourse ..for compensation consequent to deprivation of the right to self defense here....

[YOUGOTIT]

When we learn from the media that this was a Islamic Fascist Terrorist? Or will we ever be told the truth?

[American Quilter]

Lawsuits are gonna be flying...........

I hope you're right, and I hope they're aimed at every school administrator and Virginia lawmaker who ensured that the students, faculty, and administration would be helpless and defenseless. If the murderer had thought there even might be a chance that one of his victims was armed, it could have saved lives.

[Bitsy]

I would feel very uncomfortable sending my son to a campus that he felt the necessity to carry a concealed weapon for protection. It’s crazy. Although I believe people have the right to bear arms and protect themselves, it seems very sad that one has to “pack” on a campus!

[Drennan Whyte]

Thirty-one people died in Blacksburg, VA today. The cause of death was liberalism.

The cause of death was some wacko with a couple of hand guns. Don't make it into something it isn't.

[rwgal]

Unfortunately I am sure that some clown named Muhammad is watching this as he loads his magazines and re wraps his turban.

Meadow Muffin

[Southack]

"The Roanoke Times quoted VA Tech spokesman Larry Hincker as celebrating the defeat of the bill. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions," Hincker said on Jan. 31, 2006, "because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."

...and so yet another liberal gets people killed, but they "felt safe" up until that point.

[Dogbert41]

I’ve completely given up on government entirely for my family or my country’s security.

[tobyhill]

Because almost all campuses have large foreign student exchange programs I would feel comfortable letting my kid go unprotected. Call it racist or whatever but that’s how I feel.

[MeanWestTexan]

There are few places in the world where packing a weapon is not adviseable.

Texas got CCP after the after-church Luby’s shooting, for example.