You'd have to be living under a rock to have not heard about yesterday's shootings at Virgina Tech University. At least 32 dead and many more wounded by a student that just lost his mind. Horrific does not begin to describe the events. I can only imagine the terror the students in the lecture halls and classrooms must have felt to realize there was a madman with guns shooting people in the building.
Guns. The facts of this story have yet to completely come to light, but one thing is certain: he had guns. How? Why? These are questions that need to be answered and there will be time for that later. But I hope the American public does not let go of it this time but rather focuses not only on the shooter, but the access to the weapons. But that's later.
For now, let us think of the dead and their senseless end.
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You cannot eliminate access to weapons no matter how hard you try - the entire point is moot IMO.
In any case:
Anti-gun nuts will point to how this shooting demonstrates how we need to further restrict weapons.
Pro-gun nuts will point out how the fact that weapons are already restricted made this tragedy more possible (due to the overwhelming odds of the students not being able to respond to the violence with guns of their own, being law-abiding citizens present on a gun-free campus).
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