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Breaking: Shooting at Virginia Tech University (pg. 22)
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| igottaknow |
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| Demoted |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
grassy knoll :conf: |
Possibly where the shooter that killed the RA and his girlfriend is now currently spending a brief vacation at. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.sound
Asians are the new scapegoat? :( First the Indians, then the African Americans, now it's the Asians. Gosh. |
Erm... you do know about the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, right? Wong Kim Ark is probably among the most important unknown people in History :p
Not to mention that, by Asian, it could well be someone from the Middle East, South Asia, South-east Asia as well as East Asia, or he could even be American with (some) non-European ancestry.
Anyway, what's the relevance of this? It's as useless as saying he was a guy and/or he was wearing a red shirt. The main point is - why the hell did he do this? |
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| Jocker |
unbelievable:( huge tragedy... world is full of sick s:(
innocent young people full of joy and loving life. they should live and live and live:( may their souls rest in peace. |
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| Demoted |
So to those who want the gun laws to be made stricter, I would like the specific things outlined that you would like to see enacted. I personally don't think I could walk down to Walmart and purchase a firearm since I don't have a concealed weapons license. Should there be more advanced firearm training required before someone can obtain a concealed weapons license? Does that equate to the world actually being safer if the person behind the firearm actually knows how to use it?
I think most of these types of crimes don't involve people going through legal means to obtain firearms, so I don't necessarily believe stricter gun laws would really help the situation.
Maybe taking them off the shelves at Walmart and expanding governmental operations by making people go to specially run government firearm stores to purchase their guns is the answer (which I wouldn't be in favor of).
I would like some sort of specific outline as to what you all think should be done before I hop aboard the gun control bandwagon :p |
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| SuspicionVandit |
gunman is now attending Virgina Tech or WAS attending, until, like, he died
ing geraldo, he's doing the social networking investigation too!
he's referring to this guy
http://wanusmaximus.livejournal.com/ |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Demoted
So to those who want the gun laws to be made stricter, I would like the specific things outlined that you would like to see enacted. I personally don't think I could walk down to Walmart and purchase a firearm since I don't have a concealed weapons license. Should there be more advanced firearm training required before someone can obtain a concealed weapons license? Does that equate to the world actually being safer if the person behind the firearm actually knows how to use it?
I think most of these types of crimes don't involve people going through legal means to obtain firearms, so I don't necessarily believe stricter gun laws would really help the situation.
Maybe taking them off the shelves at Walmart and expanding governmental operations by making people go to specially run government firearm stores to purchase their guns is the answer (which I wouldn't be in favor of).
I would like some sort of specific outline as to what you all think should be done before I hop aboard the gun control bandwagon :p |
gun conrtrol is a lost cause in the US. the market is flooded with weapons.
as vader said "its too late for me, son". unlucky americans.
go aussie! :cool: |
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| LeopoldStotch |
a sad day indeed. i found out during lunchtime. anyways, this is messed up the news reported the killer could not be identified, because he got shot in the face? wow.
anyways, yeah this sucks for people who had to go through this type of terror. fortunately, i was not part of a gun-wielding student, but i was in a crowd of a knife wielding student when i was in high school. fortunately, he cut a couple of kids, but none died or was seriously hurt. there was another time the f.b.i. came and was questioning random students about their involvement with a certain student they were looking for. |
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| Yan |
| quote: | Originally posted by LeopoldStotch
i was not part of a gun-wielding student |
How do I shoop whoop? |
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| Demoted |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
gun conrtrol is a lost cause in the US. the market is flooded with weapons.
as vader said "its too late for me, son". unlucky americans.
go aussie! :cool: |
Yep. And I really don't think guns are the cause of the problem. The underlying theme seems to be with how kids are raised these days, not their access to firearms.
I could be wrong, but I honestly don't see the correlation that all the gun control proponents see in the legal access of firearms and the influence it has on crime. |
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| erdega |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
some people were saying the guy he shot(and killed) in the dorm (jay something) was frolicking with his GF. |
how would they know that?
It just seems like a false reason to throw people off and they cook up something and people stop to care |
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| Masonious |
| quote: | Originally posted by Demoted
So to those who want the gun laws to be made stricter, I would like the specific things outlined that you would like to see enacted. I personally don't think I could walk down to Walmart and purchase a firearm since I don't have a concealed weapons license. Should there be more advanced firearm training required before someone can obtain a concealed weapons license? Does that equate to the world actually being safer if the person behind the firearm actually knows how to use it?
I think most of these types of crimes don't involve people going through legal means to obtain firearms, so I don't necessarily believe stricter gun laws would really help the situation.
Maybe taking them off the shelves at Walmart and expanding governmental operations by making people go to specially run government firearm stores to purchase their guns is the answer (which I wouldn't be in favor of).
I would like some sort of specific outline as to what you all think should be done before I hop aboard the gun control bandwagon :p |
What does a concealed weapons permit have to do with gun ownership?
Stricter gun laws most likely would not have changed the scenario that played out today or many other days. However, the ability for a pissed off 18 year old to walk into a gun store, purchase a high powered rifle with hollow point ammunition and walk out 40 minutes later seems a tad off to me. Mandatory gun safety certifications or waiting periods for all guns would, perhaps, save a few lives every year.
So many deaths are accidental, I believe a contributing factor to this is the complete lack of respect Americans have toward guns. That parents don't lock them up if they have children is so ed up to me. However, I also do not believe the state should or can make parents responsible. Further controlling access to guns will only prevent a small percentage of the deaths caused by guns but to me the cost to the state warrants the potential rewards of this.
This is all easy for me to say because I'm not Ma and Pa's Rootin' Tootin' Gun Store in Arkansas that is barely squeaking by as it is and doesn't have a training / certification center within 200 miles nor the funds to create one. Obviously thought and money would have to go into any of these suggestions.
Fingerprinting and *keeping* the fingerprints of all gun owners might at least assist in finding those who have taken lives.
Personally, when I purchased a .45 Cal Sig Sauer P220 - I *loved* our gun laws. I was 21 and had just found someone living in my house that I was renovating. Because it was a handgun I had to wait 2 weeks, a period during which I calmed down about the situation considerably. I was told during the purchase of the weapon that my information would be destroyed after 6 months of ownership.
The situation is incredibly complex, obviously it requires more than the 5 minutes I've spent typing this to come to any feasible advances in American safety, which is all gun control attempts to achieve (or should attempt to achieve).
However, if I had to prioritize gun safety amongst the long list of America needs to get a handle on it would be a goodly ways down the list. As dramatic as the events such as today's are, the number of vehicle deaths, smoking deaths, drug-related deaths, war-related deaths, poverty, hunger, disease, malpractice and genetic related deaths as well as the advent of global warming, Russia's multitude of unaccounted for nuclear weapons and unguarded nuclear sites (run down nuclear powered lighthouses for example) makes the occasional school shooting look like a Girl Scout cookie bake off.
Also, as I mentioned earlier, gun control as NOTHING to do with today's events or at most, very little. The psychology behind school shootings is much more relevant than gun control and will remain so regardless of the controls surrounding gun ownership. Humans are more than intelligent enough to cause misery if they want to, guns are just a really, really easy way to accomplish this.
Sorry to make the 4,000th 9/11 reference in this thread but those fellas caused a ripple to go throughout the world several orders of magnitude greater than today's perpetrator and they did it with box cutters.
Holy f'ing RANT :wtf: and I'm too lazy to proofread it to ensure it's quazi-cogent. |
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