IF someone in the Vt classroom DID have a weapon, and they HAd used it to stop the killer....?

Question

Would they have been punished under the "No guns on campus" law?

Answer 1

It would have been a slap on the wrist and a "hero" label on his back.

Answer 2

Of course! It would have been a violation; unless the person ran home and retrieved it, that gun would have also been brought there for a reason. However, if that person was able to show that the gun was not meant for a similiar action, but rather s/he carried it on their person ALL the time, than most likely they would get off with very soft treatment by the courts, most likely will have to do some community service or something.
But as a rule, a bigger crime does not excuse a lesser crime.
You should also keep in mind (and what people tend to forget) is that the law is NOT supposed to be a purely human factor. Therefore, even if the public wanted for the second person to be declared a hero and not charged with gun possesion, there might be very few ways to avoid that. Perhaps the person would need to be officialy charged, convicted and then officialy pardoned by the governor (or whoever has that authority). So, in conclusion, while the courts do have a right to interpret the law quite libarelly, they are still limited in their actions; therefore, the judicial system has their hands tied in many situations. While this may sound unfair and extreme, there actually is a purpose for this.

P.S. Oh yeah, btw, some posters above suggested that other students should have carried guns too! That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard! Can you imagine how many shooting would occur on the daily?

Answer 3

Probably not...there would have been some media ruckas over the fact that not just one but two people had guns on campus...

Put is like this do you want to be the administrator that expells the hero that saves possibly dozens of lives and then have him turn around and go to the media...that would be suicide for your career and for the University...all of the publicity would go from the victims to the unfair treatment by the officials.

If this were top happen as soon as everythign died down...they would call him in for a serious meeting about the weapon and would tell him to take it off campus.

This would probably lead people to believe that lots of students have weapons on campus....when RA's check rooms there are places they are not allowed to look for privacy concerns...and we all knew where those places were. My roommate pulled a pair of shoes from under his bed one day and 3 shot gun shells rolled out. I wasn't too concerend because I knew he was a hunter and he never showed signs of going crazy...but I did keep my eyes on him.

Answer 4

Think about it. Cho came into the first room blasting. If someone in that room DID have a gun, how long would it take before they were able to react and pull their gun and fire across the room to hit a moving target?

If a trained SWAT team were in ther, Cho would still have killed 6 or 7 people before he was stopped. An untrained person, totally unawares might not even pull the gun. People were pretty terrified. If everyone in the class had stood and thrown a text book at Cho, it might have knocked him down and some could have disarmed him. But people's instinct is to flee, unless they are pretty well trained to do otherwise.

Now, lets imagine that several students in the building had guns. Imagine Cho opening fire, killing several people before being shot themselves, and at the same time, several brave people go running all over the building with guns drawn - They see other people standing there with guns pointing at them and have no idea who was doing the shooting. Can you imagine the shooting spree that might ensue?

I really don't see throwing more guns into the mix as being the answer to the problem.

Answer 5

When people realize that it is their lack of moral fiber in this country that is the problem, not the gun.

people want to blame anything and everything else for the problem but themselves and look for short term solutions for long term problems that will not work.

I read a Bumper Sticker once that said:

Dear God, why is their so much violence in school?
God replied: " Dear concerned student, because I am not allowed in school".

Every since Madeline Murray O'Hare had prayer taken out of school the violence has risen dramatically, but secular people refuse to accept that reason and fabricate psuedo reasons for themselves in an attempt to justify immorality in every phase of life in this country, justifying all sorts of profanity and immorality all in the name of social tolerance when they themselves are hypocrites for doing so because they preach social tolerance but refuse to accept Christinaity.
If you preach social tolerance than you accept Christinaity, it is all the way or nothing, you don't just pick and choose what is "comfortable" for you.

Answer 6

Probably not, because they would have know how politically bad it would be for the university. Eventhough they broke a rule, it was in an attepmt to prevent further deaths. In cases where other lives are at risk they do allow it.

Answer 7

Who besides a crazed killer would bring a loaded firearm to a classroom?

I have never met a person who carries a handgun around who wasn't an off-duty police officer. We need to have less guns around, not more.

Answer 8

They probably would have been expelled, people should have no right to defend themselves from homicidal maniacs. None.

I went to college and I gave you thumbs down

Hey DEbossy VT stands for Virginia Tech you goddamn moron


Hey Lion, so if prayer was allowed in school there would be none of these shooting? That is the dumbest rant I ever heard

Answer 9

Only in a land run by liberals.

Answer 10

yes