Posted on 04/16/2007 3:13:13 PM PDT by rebekah7gray
At least 33 people were killed today on the campus of Virginia Tech in what appears to be the deadliest shooting rampage in American history, according to federal law-enforcement officials. Many of the victims were students shot in a dorm and a classroom building
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Thank you
You sure use a lot of semantically loaded words...
...just sayin'...
I would think so too.
He’d have shat himself looking down that barrel. And yes, everyone should ccw , it up to us to defend ourselves, not depend on the police after theshooting is done.
Don't suppose they all "feel" very safe on campus any more.
Feelings, so many dead for feelings.
So I'm not Doug From Upland.
AND if you are handy enough you can make your own gun from scratch as in zip guns made from car antennas in the 50’s or a shotgun made from a steering wheel “club” as seen on CSI!
The worst crime here is the prohibition against self defense at VT.
The administrators have committed manslaughter.
Zot bait.
Well, he was carrying no ID.
The lack of ‘a white male’ in the NYSlimes copy (or any other news reports) suggests that he wasn’t white (although he may have been caucasian, since Arabs and South Asians are caucasians)—either that, or the VA police actually know how to prevent leaks.
At this point, I incline to the former possibility, since there are brief quotations from survivors who saw him up on various media outlets, and the published bits don’t contain any ethnic information either.
Since it is obvious on the face of it that it is impossible that more guns could be smuggled in than are manufactured here, given the number of and the size of our various manufacturers who either manufacture them here or have them manufactured under their name in some other country, the statistics would “prove” to the Brady bunch that guns manufactured here are involved in the most crime.
Which proves nothing.
If we can demonstrate that more people die from imported drugs, should we ban imported drugs in the belief that will lower the death rate?
We have. And to what effect? None. They are still imported, still made in the US and people still die from it. It matters not where the gun comes from. What matters is where the person comes from, both figuratively and literally.
Aren’t most autos used in drive by shootings and bank robberies legally purchased and then stolen?
Please comment on post #35. Why do you attempt to divert attn from the reality of the matter, which is criminal actions, to the tools used to defend against those criminal acitons? Do you think the woman in the pic should pray instead?
Port Arthur AU.
Gunman kills 35, wounds 18.
This in a country noted for gun control.
Waiting for the fallout here - in an election year will be painfull.
You’ve registered to the wrong place if you’re a member of the brady bunch. This is a conservative forum that supports the second amendment right to own a firearm, something your posting history suggests you do not.
This is really dreadful. It reminds me of Charles Whitman’s little bell tower rampage on UT back in 1966.
Thanks for the welcome
Let's keep an eye on this as the MSM usually tries to conveniently not report if a perp was a muzzie (there is no WOT, just a 'police action', move on, nothing to see here...)
I am looking for answers like everybody else.
I think Congress should conduct several unbiased studies on guns and ,once and for all, either support the NRA and pass laws to make sure that everybody carries guns or support the gun control lobby and pass laws restricting the availability of guns or do some of both
LOL! Hammer, nail.
Once Israel armed their teachers, attacks on schools stopped.
Immediately.
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