I don't think a complete ban is necessarily more effective either, but it hasn't hurt the citizen in countries that have bans. Sounds like a reasonable compromise for our country and culture.
Gun control, shmun control
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Shotguns require more time to reload, not a problem if a partner covers you during the process but a lone gunman like Cho could be taken down by some heroic chap during a reload.
that's why you carry 7 or 8 loaded shotguns in a pillowcase (usually reserved for neck massagers).
why am i even talking to you?
Don't Asians just sleep on bamboo mats? If a crazy asian kid buys a pillowcase you know something is up.
I thought pillowcases were for holding whore fetus....
Why would he even need a gun? They're all ninja-karate-men....a gun would just slow him down.
Ninjas are only affective against other aisians. They need guns against full sized white people.
i'm originally from the town that the appalachian law school shooting took place. while that was a terrible thing to happen in such a small town...it's really nothing close to what happened in blacksburg. grundy is a town of only a few thousand people and VT i hear has a student population of around 26,000.
it's true that the appalachian shooting could have been worse than it actually was. there was a grocery store less than 50 yards from the campus so he could've easily killed more if he hadn't been stopped. the thing with VT is...this guy was a student...so if they had locked campus down he still could've killed people in dorms or wherever else in the town if he hadn't been taken down first.
either way, it's horrible that something like this could happen less than 30 minutes from where i currently live (radford, VA) and it definitely hits home. it just sucks that so many people argue about it say that if more people had guns it could've been prevented. nobody knows how they would react in a violent situation like that. sorry for the somewhat lengthy post
it's true that the appalachian shooting could have been worse than it actually was. there was a grocery store less than 50 yards from the campus so he could've easily killed more if he hadn't been stopped. the thing with VT is...this guy was a student...so if they had locked campus down he still could've killed people in dorms or wherever else in the town if he hadn't been taken down first.
either way, it's horrible that something like this could happen less than 30 minutes from where i currently live (radford, VA) and it definitely hits home. it just sucks that so many people argue about it say that if more people had guns it could've been prevented. nobody knows how they would react in a violent situation like that. sorry for the somewhat lengthy post
There's a lot of stupid flying around in this thread. Look at other countries, look at common sense: the easiest way to kill someone is with a gun. It's lethal, fast, relatively inexpensive, easy to use and distances a killer from the victim (in a few ways; it's harder mentally, emotionally and physically to, say, stab someone in the chest than shoot them with a gun). Restrict guns and gun violence decreases. Whether we can or should have tougher gun control is a somewhat separate issues from whether lax laws increase violence.
VT student account as it happens on another forum.
Yep....people are lazy...especially big fat americans. Make something difficult, chances are they won't do it.....
I dunno....those 400lb dudes that squeeze themselves into their Ford Fiesta have to be pretty damned determined to get in there in the first place.
