Does anyone actually think?

Question

That if gun laws were stricter it would've stopped Cho? No! It would've made it harder for him, and maybe it wouldn't have happened this soon, but it still would've happened! He still would've gotten the guns! Just because he bought them completely legally doesn't mean he would've had trouble getting them illegally. It's by making the gun laws easier, and making it easy for someone that's a good person to have a gun to defend themselves that you make people safer. Because someone that's gonna break the law, will break the law, whether the law helps them break the law in the first step of that or not.

Answer 1

I completely agree with you!!! We've been talking about that at work. If gun laws were easier and the people that qualified carried a gun with them, he probably could have been stopped when he walked into that first room. Criminals would be less likely to carry out a crime when there is a pretty good chance that a few people in that place, minus security guards (if there are any), are carrying a gun.

Also, everyone needs to put the blame where it belongs...on the person!!!! It's not because of MySpace or video games or metal and rock music. If you don't have a conscience, and would do something that horrific, I highly doubt that you would let something as mundane as any of those things effect you.

Answer 2

So the answer once again is that laws are for law abiding people. If you are a criminal you don't care what the law is. Japan does not allow anyone to own a gun, yet the mayor of Nagasaki was murdered by a "gun" not the gangster who pulled the trigger, last week. How can you sneak a gun into an island nation that does not have the civil and protective rights or our country? It is because the criminals will always find ways to evade the police and the laws.

Answer 3

But the gun laws being stricter may have raised a red flag on someone being insistent on 2 guns versus maybe say 1 gun in a short period of time.

Answer 4

I believe that there needs to be one more step in order to purchase a gun. No one on anti-depressants, or any other legal mind altering drug (prescribed) should be allowed to legally by a gun. forget the privacy laws in this case. Make a national data base that is available to pawn shops and gun shops so these people cannot purchase them. Most of the people that commit these crimes are on some kind of drug for depression, or bi-polar, etc and should not have access to guns. I care more about the general population than patient privacy on this issue.

Answer 5

Most folks would like to live in neighborhood and a world where there are few guns, and everyone is safe. To achieve such a world would require fundamental changes in laws, taxation, voting, and a paradigm shift in public knowledge and attitudes. Since such a change will not come within the near future, it seems to me that the supreme human right is the right to defend oneself from violent attack, and that for those who choose it, a concealed weapon is a right that should be respected.

For those who do not like guns and don't own or use them, the fact that many others do have and carry them protects us all also, since a potential criminal does not know in advance who has a concealed weapon. If he thinks I might be packing, he may avoid the risk.

Answer 6

He was on the road to destruction regardless of what laws were in place. I think if people want to analyze this horrible situation they should look at the human angle and not the legal angle. The guy was sick and had a lifetime of feeling like an outcast. Instead of discussing gun laws, we should be discussing the way we treat each other and the ways that others like him can be helped before they reach their breaking point.

Answer 7

There is one thing for sure though. Guns shouldn't be allowed on campus. School is supposed to be a sanctuary.

Answer 8

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