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Virginia: 32 Shot Dead In School Shootout
The Watcher:
wow
on CNN there are people saying 'if america has less strenuous gun laws, and everyone carried a gun, this may have never happened'
americans are fuckin retarded, you guys really think like that?
we had a massacre here in 1996, 35 dead, the guy had a 98% hit accuracy on head shots. we had a gun amnesty and people had to hand in all their guns (except for ones being left at a shooting range) and now we haven't had a massacre since
7even:
--- Quote from: The Watcher on April 19, 2007, 12:29:36 AM ---wow
on CNN there are people saying 'if america has less strenuous gun laws, and everyone carried a gun, this may have never happened'
americans are fuckin retarded, you guys really think like that?
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lmao me and my boy were joking that they might come up with that crap
AndrE16686:
--- Quote from: The Watcher on April 19, 2007, 12:29:36 AM ---wow
on CNN there are people saying 'if america has less strenuous gun laws, and everyone carried a gun, this may have never happened'
americans are fuckin retarded, you guys really think like that?
we had a massacre here in 1996, 35 dead, the guy had a 98% hit accuracy on head shots. we had a gun amnesty and people had to hand in all their guns (except for ones being left at a shooting range) and now we haven't had a massacre since
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word.
Australia rules. Plus you can still have handguns if you want, just get it registered and you have to have it locked in a safe in your car and when at your house. And if someone steals your safe key, steals your glock from the safe and shoots up the local deli, you can be charged with manslaughter.
virtuoso:
The point is absolutely true, guns are legal to carry in the state of virginia anyway and so therefore if guns were allowed on campus in Virginia Tech, like they are in Florida campuses also, then this person would have been killed. If someone is that intent on killing, then turning campuses into a prison like environment will not prevent another massacre all it achieve is to normalise people being treated as prisoners/suspects.
Has there been any explantion yet as to why the speakers which were installed after the first shooting, did not warn people for over 2 hours after the first shooting?
Shallow:
--- Quote from: The Watcher on April 19, 2007, 12:29:36 AM ---we had a gun amnesty and people had to hand in all their guns (except for ones being left at a shooting range) and now we haven't had a massacre since
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That's the same logic that republicans use for terrorist attacks; "well we got hit on 9/11 then Bush implemented the patriot act and we invaded Iraq because they sponsored the attacks and we haven't had an attack since". Remember the Simpsons episode where a bear gets loos in town and the town responds with raising taxes to start up a bear patrol police unit. That's what things like this are; Bear Patrol. They take things that are rare occassions but devastating and they fool the people in their time of grief, then they strip them of rights and money and they laugh all the way to the bank praising the idea that it never happened again.
Of course in your case you may be a liar. I take it you are talking about Martin John Bryant who killed so many in 96. Well 5 years before that Wade Frankum did something of the sort at the Strathfield Plaza. 4 or 5 years before that in 87 Frank Vitkovic did something of the sort on Queen Street. That same year was the Hoddle Street massacre. But before '87 there was nothing of the sort in Australia. Every other massacre had to with a war of some kid, whether it be a land war or a gang war. So instead of looking to see how it was handled after '96 with Bryant why don't people focus on what happened before '87 and why so many years went by with out incident. I mean over 100 years of nothing like this when guns were readily aquired and used in the old days compared to 11 years? Does that make sense?
By the way, how is it that you failed to mention the Monash University incident that happened about 4 or 5 years after Bryant? Huan Yun Xiang had 5 hand guns at his disposal and walked into a classroom. 2 were killed and 5 were wounded. Why weren't more killed? Because when he stopped to reload after the first set of shots a lecturer who had been shot grabbed his hand while a king fu trained student tackled him. If not for these brave men who acted when the opportunity came then a lot more would have died. So much for you amnesty theory since the two gun incidents surrounding Bryant came about 5 or 6 years before and 5 or 6 years after Bryant. If something like this happens again this year or in '08 then I suggest you go to your government and demand a revision of the bear patrol act.
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