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Virginia: 32 Shot Dead In School Shootout
Chief:
--- Quote from: Digital Pimpin' on April 18, 2007, 04:41:04 AM ---It's too late for gun control in the USA - 200million firearms floating around just ain't gonna disappear.
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it's pretty fucked huh
Narrator:
--- Quote from: Digital Pimpin' on April 18, 2007, 04:41:04 AM ---It's too late for gun control in the USA - 200million firearms floating around just ain't gonna disappear.
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Actually, that is a good point. Having registration or licensing laws or banning guns outright probably would NOT have a significant effect in the U.S. for precisely that reason.
That being said, the fact that guns have been so easy to get for so many years is the reason this problem exists in the first place.
virtuoso:
Surely the point is guns were banned from the campus in the first place, meaning that if some nut or for that matter criminal. decides he or she is going to kill a bunch of people, then the law abiding people are left totally at the mercy of the gun barrel. If the campus had followed the same laws as the state of virginia in allowing a gun concealment licence, or for that matter if senior teachers had been entrusted with a gun to keep in storage, then this massive death toll would have been averted. The reaction of the police says it all to, they were of no protection to the people, they were just standing there unsure of what to do, so much for protect and serve. I can understand british police standing there perhaps, because of the fact they aren't armed but for these cops to have not done anything is just bewildering. The message in america that this should resonate and particularly as shallow has pointed out with such massive gun circulation anyway, is protect yourself with a gun.
Fuck Your Existence:
--- Quote from: virtuoso on April 18, 2007, 02:58:11 PM ---
Surely the point is guns were banned from the campus in the first place, meaning that if some nut or for that matter criminal. decides he or she is going to kill a bunch of people, then the law abiding people are left totally at the mercy of the gun barrel. If the campus had followed the same laws as the state of virginia in allowing a gun concealment licence, or for that matter if senior teachers had been entrusted with a gun to keep in storage, then this massive death toll would have been averted. The reaction of the police says it all to, they were of no protection to the people, they were just standing there unsure of what to do, so much for protect and serve. I can understand british police standing there perhaps, because of the fact they aren't armed but for these cops to have not done anything is just bewildering. The message in america that this should resonate and particularly as shallow has pointed out with such massive gun circulation anyway, is protect yourself with a gun.
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first time i can totally agree with you,Co-Sign +1
virtuoso:
That is what debate is about man, disagreeing is bound to be a part of it, scepticism and disagreement is a healthy thing. So on that note, here is a question for you, do you think americans at least the majority will think along similar lines, or will have been sucked in by the horrors and thus more willing to give up their guns?
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