I have a HUGE problem thinking of every citizen packing a gun on their hip in public. In that scenario, I don’t see less “crime”. I see road rage and every other heated argument being settled with a gun fight by people who are not emotionally mature enough to accept the responsibility of what it means to own a firearm.

I disagree. You’d see people forced to learn at a very young age that they must handle themselves in a mature way or else face another’s rage. More guns, less rage. More guns, less crime. It’s like the Mutually Assured Destruction philosophy on a micro scale. It works.

Updated 4/17 3:10: If you’ve been looking through MSNBC.com’s coverage of the massacre at Virginia Tech you may have seen the link asking you to share your story if you were there. I happen to have access to the tool that gathers submissions throug…

I also know that he used a Glock 19 and a Walther P-22.

Fox showed a picture of the guns… they were a Sig P228 and a Sig Mosquito. That “source” is bunk…

Don’t you folks click on links to verify them before you embed them?

My question is this. When will the President and Congress get serious about illegal aliens and all the entry problems into this country?

There aren’t enough police officers in the entire state of Virginia to seal the campus off completely. But even if it had been shut down, then what? How long does it stay shut down, and how do you know when it’s safe to open it up? Do you strip search every last person on campus before letting them leave? And if the suspect is contained within one of the buildings, what’s to prevent him from killing the people he’s contained with?

The issues are why were the students and faculty were deliberately kept helpless, and WHY THE @#$%^&*^% DIDN’T THEY LOCK DOWN THE CAMPUS WITH A KNOWN SHOOTER ON THE LOOSE???

We’ve all heard about the horrible story of the shooter on the VT campus who killed over 30 people. The shooter deserves swift justice, ending with full execution of the death penalty, this year!
Of course in a moment of tragedy, Liberals run …

My question is this. When will the President and Congress get serious about illegal aliens and all the entry problems into this country? Wade on April 17, 2007 at 9:27 AM

There’s a question.

Don’t hold your breath.

The answer, as I’ve said before, is that our government is not going to get serious about protecting our borders and seriously controlling immigration until something truly bad happens. Yesterday wasn’t enough. 9/11 wasn’t enough.

You watch. When terrorists sneak a nuke across the border and use it … that’s about when you’ll start to hear a real discussion on our security.

Which makes me unimaginably sad. Those people yesterday didn’t have to die. And the people that will die in the future are going to die, because we won’t do anything to stop it, until it’s too late.

We never learn.

My question is this. When will the President and Congress get serious about illegal aliens and all the entry problems into this country?

Maybe be need to lock down the country until we sort these problems out.

Granted, the visa holder determined to shoot up a crowd isn’t gonna let some prohibition stand in his way, so you got to ask: How are these foreign students a benefit to the United States except for the funeral industry?

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The Virginia Tech shooting could have been minimized or prevented had the Virginia Tech hierarchy allowed conceal carry on it’s campus. A similar incident happened in January 2002 without the consequences of Virginia Tech’s Tragedy. This was at the A…

why wasn’t the school locked down, and why weren’t students permitted to defend themselves with their own weapons?

Sydney Carton on April 16, 2007 at 11:54 PM

This is why.

The lethal weapon most often used in road rage killings is… the automobile! People are far more likely to run each other off the road with their cars than shoot at each other. Obviously we should ban cars, since they kill tens of thousands of people every year!

What if there was another way? What if the so-called campus security (which, so miserably failed the students and faculty today) were enabled to act on the behalf of the university students and faculty? What if they could be the “police” of the campus and defend against this mass-murderer? Wouldn’t a trained and enabled force on-campus be a better deterrent than an armed student populace?

That campus was impossible to “defend”. Virginia Tech campus has scores of buildings spread across 2,600 acres, and there are 26,000 students enrolled there. Can you put an officer in every classroom? No. Can you put an officer and a metal detector at every door in every building? No. I don’t even think there is a good argument that the campus police “failed miserably.”

The rush to blame the school’s administration and police is a reflection of a society that believes any and all misfortune can be averted by the proper application of government will.

Take the whole gun control debate that\’s going to get really hot …