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Had Virginia Tech not had this [http://www.ravnwood.com/archives/005264.php for evil doers only]] policy, then chances are some student would have had a gun and stopped [[Seung-Hui Cho]] before he carried out his massacred.  It seems to me that most policy pundits and makers are confused about the obvious. There's far too much gun control already.  --[[User:RickD|RickD]] 13:24, 11 December 2008 (EST)

Had Virginia Tech not had this [http://www.ravnwood.com/archives/005264.php for evil doers only]] policy, then chances are some student would have had a gun and stopped [[Seung-Hui Cho]] before he carried out his massacred.  It seems to me that most policy pundits and makers are confused about the obvious. There's far too much gun control already.  --[[User:RickD|RickD]] 13:24, 11 December 2008 (EST)

:However, one of the contributing factors to the VT massacre is that a disturbed individual like Cho was allowed to purchase weapons and ammunition without a background check.  In this country you are free to make and sell food provided you get permits and pass food-safety inspections, and you can own & drive a car provided you are trained, licensed and register your vehicle - why should gun ownership be less restrictive when the consequences of letting a Seung-Hui Cho through the cracks are so tragic?  If every VT student carried a gun that wouldn't stop a suicidal, insane gunman from trying to hurt or kil as many as he could before he got his death wish.  --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 13:35, 11 December 2008 (EST)

:However, one of the contributing factors to the VT massacre is that a disturbed individual like Cho was allowed to purchase weapons and ammunition without a background check.  In this country you are free to make and sell food provided you get permits and pass food-safety inspections, and you can own & drive a car provided you are trained, licensed and register your vehicle - why should gun ownership be less restrictive when the consequences of letting a Seung-Hui Cho through the cracks are so tragic?  If every VT student carried a gun that wouldn't stop a suicidal, insane gunman from trying to hurt or kil as many as he could before he got his [[Death Wish|death wish]].  --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 13:35, 11 December 2008 (EST)

::A degranged, but motivated individual like Cho would simply find some other way.  If there were more gun control, one situation would be for Cho to have bought a Car or Truck and driven it onto campus, running down unspecting students and killing them.  A student with a gun could stop Cho in this and most other means of massacre. Students being allowed and encouraged to carry guns is obvious deterant.  Half-baked, "feel-good" policies don't save lives or deter the criminally insane, lawful gun carrying citizens will either persuasively or forcefully.

::A degranged, but motivated individual like Cho would simply find some other way.  If there were more gun control, one situation would be for Cho to have bought a Car or Truck and driven it onto campus, running down unspecting students and killing them.  A student with a gun could stop Cho in this and most other means of massacre. Students being allowed and encouraged to carry guns is obvious deterant.  Half-baked, "feel-good" policies don't save lives or deter the criminally insane, lawful gun carrying citizens will either persuasively or forcefully.

:::Keeping guns out of the hands of felons and the insane is common sense, not a "feel-good" policy.  As for the scenario you describe, if you think the average person could react to a speeding car mowing down innocents by pulling a gun from a backpack or case and aiming to take out the driver without injuring other before the car passes by, then you are counting on the average college student to be better in a crisis than Jack Bauer on '24'.  You're right about the inventiveness of people determined to kill, though.  You can't prevent everything, but reasonable regulation of something as lethal as guns respects both the Second Amendment and our common sense. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 15:44, 11 December 2008 (EST)

:::Keeping guns out of the hands of felons and the insane is common sense, not a "feel-good" policy.  As for the scenario you describe, if you think the average person could react to a speeding car mowing down innocents by pulling a gun from a backpack or case and aiming to take out the driver without injuring other before the car passes by, then you are counting on the average college student to be better in a crisis than Jack Bauer on '24'.  You're right about the inventiveness of people determined to kill, though.  You can't prevent everything, but reasonable regulation of something as lethal as guns respects both the Second Amendment and our common sense. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 15:44, 11 December 2008 (EST)