I cried and cried until no more tears for lost of 33 talented young people at VA University ! Any measures?

Question

Any measures of preventing such happening again ? My heart aches about the happening. Please wake up on the `gun control' measure.

Answer 1

If you think controlling the availability of guns is going to happen by passing laws, you are delusional. There are books on how to do metal smithing to make your own guns. The Columbine killers were going to use pipe bombs. Guns, by themselves, have never jumped up off a table and shot somebody - it always takes a human being to pick it up, load it, and pull the trigger. The massacre in Rwanda was done primarily with machetes - so do you think we should ban all knives? Not everybody should be allowed to own a gun, but to blame the gun for the violence is to miss the point - it took a human being to pick it up in the first place.

Answer 2

I am very sorry to see so many people killed. They were innocent and they did not deserve to die.

What measures do you propose? Outlawing guns? Millions of people own guns. Millions of people do not go on a murderous rampage. I know you're upset but don't get confused with what happened yesterday. A phsychotic man killed 32 people (and himself). Don't blame the pen for what is written.

Also, there is nothing worse than emotional over reactions. If changes are made it should be done after a period of time has elapsed. Emotion should never enter into the lawmaking procedure. Remember the Patriot Act?

Answer 3

America is way past the point where gun control will effectively work. Guns are to embedded in your society. Someone refferred to them as a tool. I find this strange, because to me they are weapons made to kill.
And even if you had gun control it would not work. Holland and Germany both have strict gun laws. In one of my classes last year I was one of three people (out of thirty) to have ever seen a real gun, (my dad owns a small shotgun, he has a farm with a rat problem) and I was the only one too have seen it in Holland, the other too had seen/hold them in the US. Yet in Holland there also have been two school shootings, one of them deadly. Germany also had two deadly shooting, one of them in Erfurt was really serious and I believe it was even bigger than Columbine. So no just gun control would not work.
Nor do I think that your gun laws are wrong, they are just different, because our societies are different. I know how most americans feel about our drugs policy, and that does not make it wrong either.

Yet there are way more school shooting in the US, and why is that?

I think some of it has to do with culture. Not only because violence and guns seem much more prevalent, but also the competion element. You seem to have more of a pecking order in High Schools and colleges. It is important to be the best, a lot of emphasize is set on sports. This could lead to teenagers who feel like they are better, because they are told that when you have good grades, or when you are good in sports, than that is what counts in life. Other students, who are not that good in school or sports are not sufficiently taught that there are other things you could be succesfull through, and that it is okay to fail sometimes. Holland and Germany both have this element a lot less. I think this could lead to some individuals thinking, well I'm not good at school, I can show you how good I am with a gun, or in other words F*** the world.

Just for the record the one person who ever died in a school shooting in Holland was a staff member who already had dispute with the shooter, for a period of time.

By the way, after that deadly shooting, there was some talk about installing Metal Detectors at schools. When we talked about this with our Dutch teacher, she said: Well the school would not install them here. Because if they did I would quit and so would have of the staff. We talked about this, and we feel it is much more important to show you that we trust you, than to spend money so the school gives a false image of safety.

How many american teachers do think who have said that.

Answer 4

Gun control will do no good. People will still have guns, even if its against the law. I mean, drugs are illegal and the majority of kids have done or are doing drugs. We need other measures to control this issue. My concern is School safety, the crime rates at my University are higher than ever while tuition keeps increasing; there is nothing done to ensure students safety. c-s My prayers go out to all the students, professors, staff and family from VT.

Answer 5

Wake up?, gun control laws aren't the answer. Russia is a case in point. Gun ownership is banned and there are still guns on the street, and violent crime. All the while medical mistakes and driving kill ten of thousands of people and not so much as a whimper from the media. Gun control laws will only prevent honest people from having them. Government can only punish evildoers, it can't always protect us from them. We need to protect ourselves. I do not want to live in a police state.

Answer 6

Million Mom March

Answer 7

So because a lunatic uses a tool to harm and kill others I, a law-abiding productive member of society, am punished for owning similar tools?

"A man who presumes to tell you that you cannot own a firearm is not just pissing on the United States Constitution and the Second Amendment; he is presuming to tell you how much your life is worth. He is saying he sees no reason to make it easier for you to defend that life, or the lives of your family. He is declaring his supremacy over you by presuming to judge your life and its value. If there is a more tyrannical worldview, I don't know what it might be."

--Phil Elmore

Answer 8

Gun laws do not help in situations like this. Criminals who want guns will get them, one way or another. If we outlaw guns we turn honest gun owners into criminals.

Answer 9

Sadly the only thing that could have stopped that man from killing so many is precisely a gun.

Answer 10

I've cried. It's now time for prayer.