If he has not killed himself he would have been in serious trouble for violating those gun laws. 
"What is needed, urgently, is stronger controls over the lethal weapons that cause such wasteful carnage and such unbearable loss. "
Now Dems will call for gun control. Mccain, Hagel, Snowe and Susan collins will find middle ground with the Dems and pass legislation making it harder to get guns. This act is so predictable.
My first thought when the story started to break..
And you can bet that the Democrats will use the shooting as a scare tactic to sell gun control as a platform in 2008.
Right here is the NYT storyline. Columbine revisted. Never mind he is a Chinese student or that he did this with military efficiency. This was a planned attack, period.
Pray for W and Va Tech
>> Yesterday’s mass shooting at Virginia Tech — the worst in American history — is another horrifying reminder that some of the gravest dangers Americans face come from killers at home armed with guns that are frighteningly easy to obtain. <<
Killers at home? Well, people in the US certainly don’t face dangers from killers in Naboobistan. But, in this case, last I heard, they thought it was a Chinese national in here on a student engineering visa.
Right when the gun grabbers needed a shooting.
So is the NY Times.
there was a day in this country when a 9 yr old paper boy on his bicycle,making his rounds,reacts,runs to his daddy’s house,gets the family pistol and returns. As he is smallish he manages an entry of close quarters and sneakes to an advantageous perch and takes out the shooter.
Today,just imagine the negitive print because the paper boy reacted.
Okay....NY TIMES>......what is the ONE thing which could have prevented this carnage at BOTH Columbine AND VT? 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1........
How about CCW permits? At least for the teachers/profs....
One, JUST ONE (!!!) Legally Armed American could have saved DOZENS of lives today, but Liberals in thier wisdom created a “Gun-Free Zone” on that campus, and led the sheep to thier slaughter....
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:
Dealing with a Maniacal Gunman:
LIBERAL WAY-
1) Cower in fear, while begging for your life.
2) Notify next-of-kin.
CONSERVATIVE WAY:
BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!
(reload)
BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!
The New York Times loves it that they can post their dribble from the mount - without any rebuttle, or even being forced to include things like facts in it.
Of course fewer and fewer people want to read the cr@p that they are writing, so soon they will only be talking to themselves.
If he has not killed himself he would have been in serious trouble for violating those gun laws.
By sheer coincidence, I happened to watch this on Sunday. It’s Penn & Teller’s complete episode of “Bulls**t” on Gun Control: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2807602702866411553&hl=en It specifically addresses mass shootings such as Columbine, noting that they only happen in “gun-free zones” such as schools, never at gun shows or NRA conventions. They blow away the very idea that you can prevent criminals from using guns by passing a law against it, and they even mention all the gun laws that the Columbine shooters broke. The language is rough at times, but it should be required viewing for every NY Times editor.
Very conveniently timed for the libs in Congress to make hay with, I have to say. After Nancy’s “hundred hours” has dragged out to 100 days with absolutely nothing accomplished, here’s a softball of an issue that the libs and rinos can come together on. Not like it’s a conspiracy or anything.
Wow 8 years already I was 13 when the shootings in Littleton happen time has gone by so fast
Idiots! How many of these killers have PERMITS? I'd like to see a study on that.
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As predicted, the New York Times and the folks from both the Brady Center and Violence Policy Center have wasted no time in dancing in the blood of the victims. Of course, the NYT, Brady Center and the VPC have already repeatedly shown us they are a bunch of ghouls.
Same mentality that used to tell us to cooperate with airplane hijackers.
When I imagine what it would be like to be locked in that classroom waiting my turn to be blown away. How thankful I would be that my classmates and I were safe from the burden of having a firearm of our own.
James Webb should be asked early and often to comment on this..... it’s OK for him to carry in VA and even DC (where the NY Times’ favorite gun law is in force) — so does he think VA Tech students should all have been helpless in the face of this mass-murderer?