What would have been the best way to stop the Virginia Tech Shooter.?

Question

1: Outlaw Guns
2: Give School Security Guns
3: Let Students Have Guns To Defend Themselves
4: Metal Detectors on Campus

What do you think?

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Answer 1

1. Unrealistic
2. They already do.
3. NRA Spokesperson suggested this. Wouldn't this be a "Cold War" on a smaller scale where everyone would be packing weapons (which by the way is against the law)?
4. It may come down to this.

Bottom line is that there isn't a whole lot a person can do to completely stop things like this from happening. You can minimize the damage somewhat by instituting some security measures but the reality is this.

If a determined (and probably mentally unstable) person in America wanted to kill a lot of people, it's possible. If I were to flip out and all of a sudden wanted to wipe out everyone at work with no regards to my life. I can easily go out and buy a gun and orchestrate the same type of mayhem. If guns weren't available then what would prevent me from poisoning people, making a bomb, or running over them with a vehicle and having the same effect?

The only sure way to stop these things from happening is to make sure that the perpetrator never gets to this "state of mind" but how do you do that? How do you make people mentally sound 24/7?

You can't. This is the same reason you can't stop terrorists. It just takes few determined individuals with some grievances to kill thousands of people. You can kill one terrorist and another person with the same grievance will take his place.

Answer 2

It's so hard to answer this question in simple terms. If a person is hell bent on doing something like this - they are going to get it done. If guns were outlawed it would be just as easy to walk in the door with a bomb. Metal detectors would help, but then where do you draw the line, you would have to have a metal detector, manned 24 hours a day, at every doorway, to every building, on every campus, of every college in the US. This kid was a student there - he was supposed to be on that campus and could walk around it freely.

I wonder, if someone was troubled enough to do something like this, were there warning signs that went ignored? I think reporting anything that seems out of the ordinary about someone's behavior, any threat no matter how small, to the authorities is the first step. I think the next step is having every school have an emergency response plan in place for events like this, and a campus wide PA or warning system that would allow for school officials to order the entire campus closed down immediately following an incident of this nature.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

In a free and open society, you won't be able to bypass locking each little thing down. it truly is called martial regulation. it truly is a campus of just about 3000 acres. the position might want to you commence locking down? enable's say you lock each and each of the homes, despite the indisputable fact that the shooter is outdoors, as well as some thousand students on their thanks to classification, then what? you won't be able to predict what a loopy human being will do, and on the time of the first taking pictures, that they had no idea what the guy grow to have the capacity to. What may have saved some lives is that if the staff were licensed to carry guns. Making guns unlawful in basic terms keeps them out of the fingers of regulation abiding electorate. Criminals will nevertheless locate procedures to receive guns.

Answer 5

If they outlawed guns he would have been known as the Virginia Tech Bomber, or Stabber. My point is you cant stop a crazy person, he would have carried out his plan one way or the other. Unfortunately. All we can do is pray for the people who lost their lives, the injured, the surviving students and all family of the above.

I think banning guns would be the wrong way to go completely. There are so many millions of guns already out there that even if they stopped selling guns, people would still have them through the black market. And it would be even easier to get than now. In order to buy a gun from a store, they run a background check on you. Pawn shops I think should be ban from selling guns. Maybe only sell them in certain, FBI appointed stores, but you cant stop people fom doing what they want.

Answer 6

There was nothing that really could have been done, or anticipated that this incident was going to happen. The only thing I can think of that might have changed the outcome of it a bit was to let the students leave after the first 2 shootings occurred, instead of continuing the day like nothing happened.. He had mental issues, and there werent enough warning signs to raise a red flag in a school of 26,000 students, unfortunately.

Answer 7

I don't know about actually stopping the shooter. That being said, however, in order to prevent injuries/deaths in the future, all students should be required to take atleast one semester of advanced dodge ball.

Answer 8

They should of made an announcement over the loudspeakers and sent txt messages as well - not email - dear god not email

Answer 9

What most people dont understand is there is no way to prevent something like this from happening.
If someone just snaps and wants to kill someone it is impossible to prevent considering it is such a big place and if you been there you will see what im saying.
They have so many students and cannot be everywhere at one time.

Answer 10

Sorry, but NOTHING could have PREVENTED yesterday's tragedy. These solutions MAY have lessened the number of casualties, but nothing can derail a deranged psychopath from carrying out his mission.