2007-04-17 11:59:34 · 38 answers · asked by Carl 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
sorry...I meant prevented...I sometimes think faster than I type.
2007-04-17 12:00:09 · update #1
No. What could have helped prevent it is if VT allowed licensed concealed carry on campus. School regulations ensured that nobody on campus had the means to fight back.
2007-04-17 12:03:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
If the guy was a foreign exchange student, maybe. Asia has stricter gun control, and therefore someone coming from there is accustomed to having his right to bear arms restricted from him. Take that restriction away, then such a person is more likely not to know how to handle the liberties to which Americans are accustomed.
But I think that if our gun control laws were stricter like, say, Canada, then we would have the busiest bomb squads in the world instead of Canada.
I appreciate the role of individual morality in the everyday peace I enjoy, and I am not looking for government to render it obsolete, and slop up the credit for it by exerting a lot of new control.
2007-04-17 12:12:31 · answer #2 · answered by dinotheorist 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, just like I don't think stricter drug laws would prevent drug use, or outlawing knives would prevent stabbings. There are so many gun laws currently in place, and most crimes involving guns break the laws that are already in existence.
Also, guns are just as accessible illegally as they are legally. If people are willing to break other laws (like committing murder), what makes you think that they aren't willing to buy a gun on the street and not in a store? The only people that gun control laws restrict are the ones already obeying the law.
This was a tragic event inflicted by a deranged and disturbed individual who fantasized about violence incessantly. This man wasn't concerned with and wouldn't have been stopped by gun control laws, just like he wasn't concerned with laws against killing. It looks like it was a matter of time before he found a way to kill, no matter what that way would have been.
2007-04-17 12:46:48 · answer #3 · answered by finchfrii 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You give a disturbed person with a desire to kill long enough and he will find a way. What if the law limited how many rounds you can buy? He can stockpile. What if the law outlawed guns? Drugs are outlawed and how hard are they to find. Stricter gun laws may help slow down crimes of passion, but will not stop a determined killer with a plan.
2007-04-17 12:07:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I believe that stricter gun laws affect only the responsible gun owners. People like this sociopath would not be deterred by tougher laws. Like someone above said, he would have gotten the guns some way.
2007-04-19 02:02:49 · answer #5 · answered by Veruca Salt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. This young man was a legal citizen over the age of 21 without a record. He bought the gun over a month ago, so even when you factor in proposed wait times to purchase firearms he would have had plenty of time. Realistically I can't think of any other laws that could be created to curb this sort of incident.
2007-04-17 12:05:45 · answer #6 · answered by Franny 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, The gun laws are for honest people, criminals get the guns they use illegally, I heard this guy but his legally but that's not possible he was not a citizen of the United States and non-citizens are not legally able to own firearms in this country. So stricter laws will only make it hard for the innocent citizen to get a gun to protect his/her self.
2007-04-17 12:08:39 · answer #7 · answered by denny 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not at all....people who want to kill people are going to get them no matter what. Why make it harder for people who choose to buy them legally for protection? In fact, if everyone was carrying one maybe it wouldn't be so easy to murder people. I guarantee yesterday wouldn't have had as many deaths if everyone had a gun on them. All the killers would know they were going to an even fighting ground and may think twice. Just a thought that popped into my head this morning when listening to arguements on control on the radio.
2007-04-17 12:07:33 · answer #8 · answered by debrenee211 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not one bit. All stricter gun laws will do is take the guns out of the law abiding citizens hands who uses it for his own protection or his families protection, and put it in the hands of a criminal.
2007-04-17 12:06:14 · answer #9 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Can't really say so!
They are going to get those weapons NO MATER WHAT!!!
All the laws aren't going to stop a sick person from doing what they sought out do do in the first place!
Maybe wrong here but just my opinion.
Guns don't kill people! People kill people.
Vice President D ick Cheney had accidentally shot a hunting companion.
(Likely,only wounding him).
Should we then band hunting and rifles?
We need to look at the whole picture.
Just my opinion.
2007-04-17 12:10:44 · answer #10 · answered by Bluelady... 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What could be stricter than the fact that the shooter was on a Visa that did not allow him to buy or own firearms????
If he had killed 33 people with a knife, would you be calling for stricter knife control laws??
Would there be a 7 day waiting period for me to buy silverware??
As long as there are psychopaths/sociopaths --- there will be ways for them to kill people.
2007-04-17 12:05:39 · answer #11 · answered by dreamair 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋