A person know as CLS wrote an article titled: When mass killers meet armed resistance. It is about how killers like the one at VT were stopped by other students, principles, or off-duty police officers. The article pointed out many incidences where a shooting spree was cut short and lives possibly were saved because another armed person was able to subdue the killer.
My stance on the issue is killers shouldn't be able to get a gun in the first place.
This was my reply to his article:
I don't think any of your evidence calls for less gun restrictions. If anything it calls for more. Who and why would anyone give/sell someone like the VT shooter a gun?
There needs to be much stricter requirements on who has access to a gun.
I'm not saying you or those heroic students teacher and police officers don't have a right to own a gun and protect yourself and possibly others around you.
As a matter of fact I believe that people who are competent, stable, and trustworthy have an obligation to carry a gun.
The stricter gun laws need not include people who genuinely desire to make the world safer. But this crazy person at VT and others like him SHOULD NOT EVER HAVE ACCESS TO A GUN.
Guns don't kill people, people do. Thats why certain people should not have a gun. Gun laws [or should i have said "people laws"] need to be stricter and need to be enforced. But the laws need not to stop a would be hero.
As a matter of fact I believe that people who are competent, stable, and trustworthy have an obligation to carry a gun.
ReplyDeleteThe guy who killed 32 at VT was competent, stable, and trustworthy, until, of course, he killed 32 people. There was no way for the guy who sold him the gun to know anything about the future murderer's character.
Future criminals are known to not care about gun laws.
That is FAR from true. Have you seen his videos? Have you heard about his poetry? Di you not here the the interview with his english teacher? This man had previously committed himself to a mental hospital. If the background check would have also involved somehow a call to his english teacher or some other reference they would have said this person has NO business owning a gun.
ReplyDeleteHe was NOT competent, stable or trustworthy!
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