All dorm rooms should have metal detectors and video cameras. Why would a child need a gun at school. On top of this Cho wasn't even an American citizen. Why on Earth would we allow visitors from other countries buy guns? It would be like giving nuclear bombs to Bin Laden. The person that said that non-Americans can come to American and buy weapons of destruction (no matter how small they are) made a big mistake. These terrorists say that they hate us because we're free and because we're wealthy but they must be more dissatisfied with their own countries otherwise they wouldn't come to America. They are truly hypocrites. They ought to improve their own countries rather than terrorize better off countries. Jealousy and frustration is not a justification for murder. If a person is producing less than their share in society instead of being embarrassed and killing people they wish they were like they ought to work on trying to be like the people they envy.
2007-04-19 15:03:03 · 9 answers · asked by Seanathan 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
"It wasn't jealousy but revenge." Cho himself said that it was jealousy. Besides revenge isn't any better. I don't feel sorry for people that are teased because I was and just ignored it. Good grief what kind of excuse for killing people is revenge for being teased. That is extremely childish and simple! Do these people live in caves?
2007-04-19 15:30:48 · update #1
NBC news reported that he was a national of South Korea. Don't answer with incorrect information. He clearly is not an American citizen. Go to any mainstream news site and you can read this. Good grief...any reasonable answers? Also, if guns are brought into a gun free zone then it clearly is not a gun free zone. Video cameras and other safeguards in the dorm would have saved many lives in this case.
2007-04-19 15:37:12 · update #2
"being Korean had little to do with it"
I never said nor did anyone else say that being Korean had anything to do with his terror. His motive as said in his own words on video was his hate for wealthy Americans. That is also the excuse of the terrorists we have been fighting in the current war in the middle east.
2007-04-19 15:51:18 · update #3
Metal detectors would be an acceptable idea, but on a large campus it would slow things down significantly and if this was implemented, a killer could just as easily use a bomb/start a fire in a building a pick people off as they flee. Perhaps universities and other schools should work on crisis plan and how to respond with staff and students.
2007-04-19 15:21:01 · answer #1 · answered by Kelsey 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The shooter at Virginia Tech was by no means a "child". This person was an adult.
ALSO this person was a legal permanant resident of the United States and so had all the gun ownership rights of a naturalized citizen.
Perhaps a bit more study would have pointed these things out to you.
Now for the other crap like metal detectors and cameras in college dorms. Total and completely wrong method dude! We already have big brother watching way too much.
Perhaps, a bit more attention toward mental illness and education of staff on what the danger signes are would have helped. Perhaps not. We will never really know because this gy is now dead and can't tell us what he was really thinking and feeling.
2007-04-19 22:15:32 · answer #2 · answered by afreshpath_admin 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Cho slipped thru the cracks...Sux, but it's as simple as that.
His guns were legally obtained, despite his being committed to a mental institution...but if his girlfriend had gotten a restraining order against him, his weapon permits would have been denied.
As for stopping kids from carrying guns;
We can't even keep guns out of city public schools, where security is the tightest of all, and has been for many years...how do you propose keeping weapons from a campus the size of VT's?
Metal detectors won't work...Many guns are available with plastic stocks that will pass thru airport security scanners, and there couldn't be any metal at all in the dormroom, which isn't likely.
The true criminal here is mental illness...Cho gave many signals in advance, but they were ignored and allowed to fester to the extreme...being Korean had little to do with it.
2007-04-19 22:26:27 · answer #3 · answered by PopsGifts 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Interesting theory except that schools already DON'T allow children to bring guns to school! And Cho wasn't a child, he was 23. He wasn't a "visitor," either. He'd been here since he'd been 9 and he came with his family. Children of immigrants are not able to apply for citizenship until they are 18. Further, though I do not condone what he did in any way, he was taunted and teased and made fun of when he was in school. It wasn't jealousy but revenge. I'm thinkin' maybe you ought to learn the facts before you pontificate any more.
2007-04-19 22:13:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Every elementary and high school in the US has been a "gun free zone" for more than a decade. VA Tech is a "gun free zone". Since we don't allow ANYONE to bring guns to school now, we can't stop letting them do so. Nearly every multiple victim shooting occurs in a "gun free zone". If school shooting justify a change in the law, it would be to ban "gun free zones".
2007-04-19 22:30:42 · answer #5 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What an interesting idea, but I think the schools beat you to it, and kids still bring guns to school.
Why would a child need a gun at school? To protect himself because other children bring guns to school even though it is against the school's laws.
Cho was indeed an American citizen. He was naturalized. He came here with his parents when he was like three and grew up here.
2007-04-19 22:11:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Did you ever notice that these mass shootings only happen in gun free zones. Seems to me that the only thing gun free zones do is prevent honest, law abiding citizens from exercising their 2nd Amendment rights. Gun free zones do NOT prevent mass shootings.
2007-04-19 22:11:58 · answer #7 · answered by Jace 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I agree with you but many schools don't go through kids backpacks everyday and I should kno I'm a kid! all we have @ my school is cameras so anyone can sneek anything into school. So now how do we prevent that?
2007-04-23 20:54:42 · answer #8 · answered by Jake P 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our gun laws are a joke, certainly do not keep gun out of the hands of criminals. The shootings in Virginia just show the ineffectiveness of our gun laws. Let me ask" if you needed a gun to commit a crime, would you buy one and have it registered??" NO!! and neither would I, I would steal a gun.
2007-04-19 22:12:50 · answer #9 · answered by longroad 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋