Comments on: Gun control won’t fix school shootings http://www.jackcentral.com/2008/02/28/gun-control-won%e2%80%99t-fix-school-shootings/ The Lumberjack online! Sun, 18 May 2008 00:04:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Rich http://www.jackcentral.com/2008/02/28/gun-control-won%e2%80%99t-fix-school-shootings/#comment-1247 Rich Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:59:14 +0000 http://www.jackcentral.com/2008/02/28/gun-control-won%e2%80%99t-fix-school-shootings/#comment-1247 Speaking practically, the guns legislation could solve some problems with school shootings. On the other hand, it could make school shootings even more dangerous. The problem is no one knows what could happen, and all example used on both sides are hypothetical. So I present the one truth. If a shooting occurs, students, faculty, gun holders nor police will know how to decipher between aggressor and defender. This legislation will set in place a system of potential unimaginable horror. I also reject that this legislation will make anyone feel safer. Concealed weapons are exactly that, concealed. No one will know they are there so the only people who may feel ‘safer’ are those secretly carrying them. Speaking practically, the guns legislation could solve some problems with school shootings. On the other hand, it could make school shootings even more dangerous. The problem is no one knows what could happen, and all example used on both sides are hypothetical.

So I present the one truth. If a shooting occurs, students, faculty, gun holders nor police will know how to decipher between aggressor and defender. This legislation will set in place a system of potential unimaginable horror.

I also reject that this legislation will make anyone feel safer. Concealed weapons are exactly that, concealed. No one will know they are there so the only people who may feel ‘safer’ are those secretly carrying them.

]]> By: tm244 http://www.jackcentral.com/2008/02/28/gun-control-won%e2%80%99t-fix-school-shootings/#comment-1207 tm244 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:28:00 +0000 http://www.jackcentral.com/2008/02/28/gun-control-won%e2%80%99t-fix-school-shootings/#comment-1207 Trust isn’t the defining factor when looking at the shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University. It wasn’t important to the VT or NIU victim’s families if the students trusted the gunmen who shot them, what mattered was that their sons and daughters were needlessly killed by psychotic men. It’s pretty plain and simple, people with documented mental instability shouldn’t be allowed to legally purchase firearms. However, given the intense drive of the two shooters, banning mentally instable people from purchasing guns won’t prevent them from obtaining deadly weapons. It’s interesting (but not surprising) that college campuses are magnet locations for mass shootings. They are “gun-free zones” and potential murderers can pretty much depend on little or no real civilian opposition (hence such high death tolls). Malls, public schools, and recreation centers are pretty much helpless against the murderous whims of psychotic individuals determined to kill innocent people. To some extent, the second amendment was foresight into the possibility of this and gives everyone the right to feel secure that they can protect themselves. Trust isn’t the defining factor when looking at the shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University. It wasn’t important to the VT or NIU victim’s families if the students trusted the gunmen who shot them, what mattered was that their sons and daughters were needlessly killed by psychotic men. It’s pretty plain and simple, people with documented mental instability shouldn’t be allowed to legally purchase firearms. However, given the intense drive of the two shooters, banning mentally instable people from purchasing guns won’t prevent them from obtaining deadly weapons.

It’s interesting (but not surprising) that college campuses are magnet locations for mass shootings. They are “gun-free zones” and potential murderers can pretty much depend on little or no real civilian opposition (hence such high death tolls). Malls, public schools, and recreation centers are pretty much helpless against the murderous whims of psychotic individuals determined to kill innocent people. To some extent, the second amendment was foresight into the possibility of this and gives everyone the right to feel secure that they can protect themselves.

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