Just thought I'd correct a con who lied.
Seung-Hui Cho bought his guns from TGSCOM Inc and Roanoke Firearms, both licensed dealers. If the court had ordered him to seek mental health on an inpatient basis, he would have been disqualified from buying a gun.
2007-12-05 19:39:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Except he lied on the BATF form and the data that would have prevented him from purchasing a firearm was not entered into NCIC.
2007-12-06 20:45:39 · answer #1 · answered by .45 Peacemaker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A mentally disturbed person, broke the law and utilized a tool to kill others.
Safe law abiding citizens with no tools to defend themselves, died.
Wether you like firearms or not, they are the right of each American, protected by the founding fathers insistance by being protected by the 2nd and perhaps 9th amendments to the Constitution. They are however to protect against tyranny. The right to use them for personal defense, hunting, target shooting etc are mearly side benefits.
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; (See anything similar in the VT shootings?) they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Thomas Jefferson 'Common-place book,' 1774-1776 Quoting from on crimes and punishment, by criminologict Cesare Beccaria, 1764
The right to bear arms is a choice. If you do not believe in utilizing them, you are not required to. But its inclusion in the Constitution makes it no less than the right to free speech etc... How you speak for example is entirely up to you.
2007-12-05 22:44:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was a known headcase, who should have been red-flagged in the system.
You want to blame someone, blame the mental health professionals who committed malpractice.
2007-12-05 19:59:54 · answer #3 · answered by A Balrog of Morgoth 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So what.
If he had been taken care of as he should have been the shooting would not have happened. The problem was the mental heath system.
2007-12-05 19:48:07 · answer #4 · answered by jmack 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
He probably did buy them legally... so now lets hear from gun lovers... should everyone in that store have been toting a gun.. would there have been no deaths then.
I'll say it again.. there should be no such thing as legal weapons.. no one needs a gun. Guns kill...
2007-12-05 19:44:39 · answer #5 · answered by Debra H 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋