OK perplexed I am perplexed that you did not bother to check a couple of things.  First that state does have background checks but this nut had NEVER been charged for a crime.  also he was a legal resident of the united states.

“A can of gasoline and a match would have done far worse.”

OK, well I’ll be watching the US news for the next headline “Gasoline madman kills 32 by setting fire to them.”

I won’t hold my breath though.

As the great comedian Eddie Izzard said:

“Sure, guns don’t kill people, people kill people. But I think the guns HELP.”

Virginia is one state that allow its citizens the 2nd Amendment Rights to some extent. Unlike my state (Illinois) Virginia, trust law abiding citizens that elect the law makers to have weapons and the right to a concealment permit.

So my question is: Why did the President- Charles Steger and other administration personal not allow people on campus to carry a weapon, let alone on campus property?

Who is liable for these murders?

What’s even more tragic is that no one on campus was permitted to carry (or have in their car) a gun that might have stopped the shooter.  Research has shown that more deaths of innocent people are PREVENTED by citizens who legally own and carry weapons than there are people who are killed by criminals and other sick individuals in areas where they’re NOT permitted.  For some reason the media (and the government) doesn’t think this is worth mentioning….

Excuse me   For the most part leaglly ??????  Everthing you say in the article says it was legal.  Unless you have information to the contary dont try to inflame the situation.  I have come to expect fair and balanced reporting from you.  ( sorry to use fox’s phrase)  dont dissapoint me and dont be like the conservatives and use something like this just to advance you postion on gun control

This is what comes of a society that places a stigma on mental health problems and discourages seeking help for those problems.  But that same society also over emphasizes it’s need for individual firearms and the ease in getting them.

Would people feel better if he had used a flamethrower?

Please don’t waste any more time on the dead-end gun control issue. How about addressing the root cause of why he would even consider doing such a thing? Why has our society degraded to such a point? Why do we celebrate violence, anger, aggression?

We don’t need another Brady bill that will accomplish absolutely nothing. We need a long hard look at ourselves asking ‘what the fuck is wrong with us?’

If the State of Virginia had at least one law on the books regarding background checks this may not have happened. Now that the background on this shooter comes to light and we see a not only a person who was stalking women, deemed suicidal by his own family. and also one even his professors deemed as psychotic. Then to find out he wasn’t even an American citizen and still could purchase firearms legally was equally disturbing. Way to go State of Virginia!

The mental health care system needs rebuilding. By design someone must commit a crime before you can get a sufferer any real help. A police officer told me, “It’s legal to walk the streets completely insane… until you commit a crime.”  When I asked if my ailed friend would get the help they need in prison, every police officer said, “No.”

Absolutely Disgusting and Shameful, America.

mr 127001
The truth hurts doesn’t it?
It is easy to purchase handguns in Virginia.

People will get shot.

Until we realize the purpose of handguns- shooting people..
you don’t hunt with a handgun by the way.

T

Perhaps we should consider it fortunate he didn’t purchase fertilizer and fuel oil, in which case Virginia Tech might have disappeared.

All one has to do is read the killings in Iraq everyday to see what Cho could have done with an IED or pipe bombs.
Maybe the school should have paid more attention to his English Prof. Sickness can affect many and there will never be a way to determine who is or will be a menace to society.
A person bent on killing is never going to be stopped, the legality of his having guns is not for debate.