Shooting at Virginia Tech

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Then he shall die.

Oh, no... the hand-holders want to disarm you... and did disarm the students, so over thirty of them died.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Oh, no... the hand-holders want to disarm you... and did disarm the students, so over thirty of them died.

And all the gun holders want to kill you, arm all the students so at least half of them may die.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Oh, no... the hand-holders want to disarm you... and did disarm the students, so over thirty of them died.

I am not against total disarmament in society but there should be at campuses. If students and faculty were allowed to carry guns it wouldn't have done anything except for the one in a million chance that someone with a weapon would be close, calm, and skilled enough to do anything. Campuses have many other resources to prevent crime, rape, etc, that normal society doesn't so there is no reason to have a gun for protection. I wouldn't be too against police having guns but I don't see how it would help much since most crime doesn't occur with an officer nearby.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Campuses have many other resources to prevent crime, rape, etc, that normal society doesn't

Not very effective resources, however. It's hard to really say, since a lot of college campuses don't report crimes to the local municipality, since they aren't involving the "townies", and don't make their internal crime statistic information available.

Things have probably changed, but on starting college, I went to a seminar in which the Campus police explained "how to say no to a rapist and survive," which primarily consisted of instructions on how to disable or kill your attacker. This was 1980 and the campus police were admitting they were powerless to stop crime on campus. (this was even a few years after they were allowed to carry their guns on the campus after 4pm. Yes, that was a real regulation. The place I went, the campus police were actually sworn police officers, not just security guards)