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Virginia State Shooting Exposes the Failed Logic of Gun Control
AmmoLand ^ | August 19, 2026 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 08/27/2026 5:30:14 AM PDT by marktwain

On Saturday, August 15, 2026, at about 1:30 a.m. on the Virginia State University campus, a shooting broke out. Five people were wounded, one of them a 20-year-old student at the university. Camron Rarris, 19, was found hours later and was charged with four counts of malicious wounding. The Virginia State student was treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries. A 21-year-old man remains in critical condition, according to foxnews.com.

Police are seeking others to determine if some people fired back in defense of self and others. A 23-year-old man, a 17-year-old teenager, and a 19-year-old woman had non-life-threatening injuries. The crimes appear to have had little to do with the school, aside from its location.

Virginia State University is located about 25 miles south of Richmond and has close to six thousand students. The cause of the shooting is not yet known.

Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit with a mandate to reduce school violence, referenced the Virginia State incident and posted this on X:

“Gun violence” is a political term designed to associate guns with social problems.

The term conflates suicides, murders, justified homicides, and firearm accidents as all part of the problem, and thus, defines the “problem” as “guns”. Suicides and homicides have different causes and solutions. The number of guns in a community is not correlated with the number of suicides or homicides. Fatal accidents with guns have been dropping for over a hundred years and are at an all-time low, in spite of firearms ownership being at an all-time high.

In 2025, and it appears likely in 2026, the murder rate in the USA was and will be at an all time low.

Unfortunately, Sandy Hook Promise is actively working to, “expand background checks on all firearm sales, pass temporary transfer orders, create secure

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; clickbait; control; gun; guns4everyone; needmoreguns; va

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Most people who are proponents of "gun control" have false assumptions about the nature of reality.
1 posted on 08/27/2026 5:30:14 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain
"Most people who are proponents of "gun control" have false assumptions about the nature of reality."

And the reality of nature.

Man is a wild beast and the façade of civilization only exists so long as we pretend does. When some among us revert to the wild state, it behooves the rest of us to be in possession of the tools necessary to restore that civility.

2 posted on 08/27/2026 5:43:58 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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And I hope Dean Weingarten lives to be a hundred and twenty five. At least.


3 posted on 08/27/2026 5:45:17 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

May God’s blessings be upon you!


4 posted on 08/27/2026 5:49:14 AM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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Is it Raciss if I point out that VSU is an HBU


5 posted on 08/27/2026 5:59:41 AM PDT by P8riot (You will never know Jesus Christ as a reality in your life until you know Him as a necessity.)
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Omitted from this excerpt is the fact that Virginia State University is one of the historically black schools. This was essentially an ordinary gang / ghetto shootout relocated to a “university” campus.


6 posted on 08/27/2026 6:03:16 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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I didnt see mention that the shooter was not a student.
In fact only 1 of the 5 in the fracas was a student.


7 posted on 08/27/2026 6:11:41 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowit)
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“MALICIOUS WOUNDING”

WHAT A DISTORTION OF PLAIN ENGLISH WORDS


8 posted on 08/27/2026 6:43:17 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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