Tom: “Not if they are as crazy as that boy was...!  sorry to disagree with you on some points Quest...  Some people want students to be armed..!  They say that would have stop the shooter...  I say they are crazier... Ignorant”

 

Sorry not to have been more expressive, and it’s OK if you disagree but it is the fact that many students at Virginia Tech already have the right and do possess guns but are not allowed to carry them on campus as per campus regulations and often leave them locked up in their vehicles or dorms while at school. The logic then proceeds that if they had been allowed to carry their guns on campus, then, most definitely the number of students killed by this mad man would have been far less. Further…believe me, and I speak from personal experience, they would have used their side arms if they had been made available to defend themselves when posed with no alternative. This is without a doubt!

 

Broad brush solutions indeed…most of your solutions are “pie in the sky” wishful thinking which would be really nice even in an “ideal” world.

 

Even today a scientific poll asks could a travesty such as this be lessened by stricter gun control laws and 19% say yes while 79% say no. Many site the fact that guns can be gotten by the criminal elements.

 

Furthermore, no one is blaming this atrocity on mental illness to be use as an escape but it becomes readily obvious even to the untrained eye that the person ranting on the video (the murderer) and anyone viewing it would agree is exactly that…a psychopathic sociopath.

 

It is not lost that the murderer’s family has conceded and well understand the grief which this family member has wrought on innocent victims and are deeply moved and saddened by this person’s actions.