After the events today at Virginia Tech, is it time to talk about gun control in the USA?

You can't control crazy people and if you think you can then you are even crazier than them.After the events today at Virginia Tech, is it time to talk about gun control in the USA?
Hitler and Lenin both instituted gun control laws... Blaming the gun for what a moron does is like Rosie O'Donnel blaming the spoon for her being fat. Duh...After the events today at Virginia Tech, is it time to talk about gun control in the USA?
no
As long as I am alive NO. We have a 2nd Amendment and obviously society has a problem. Society however, does not have a gun problem. Stop blaming an object, start blaming people. After guns, will we ban thoughts???
Cons will tell you in order to stop school shootings you need to give students more guns.





Black is white. Bad is good. You must chop down trees in order to save them (Bush policy). You must take away some of our civil liberties in order to protect our freedom.
People who would commit a crime with a gun, would commit it by other means. Think about other places in the world. Yesterday there were 56 people who were killed in iraq by bombings. That happens there every day. And since you can make a bomb out of household products, you cant ever control the crazy people when access to means to kill people are always going to be available.
Look at the millions of gun owners, then look at a single crazy loon. People kill other people everyother day, by constricting the device, it does not eliminate the motive. Look at our motor vehicles and look at the number of homicides associated with our cars. Gun owners in general are responsible citizens.
I thought you had to have a mental test before you bought the gun. Anyway this guy at Virginia Tech is probably some little crazy anyway.
No it's not, but it's already starting. What people don't realize is that Conceal and carry laws reduce violent crime in every state in which they are instituted. Don't believe me? Check the links...
Yes.





Nutcases, wife beaters, and violent felons don't need guns! Yet somehow, they keep getting them.
I think it's time people asking this question to stop. Using the deaths of fellow Americans to further your own agenda and opinions shows a lack of compassion.
For one loose nut? No, it is a tragedy, they do happen you know. Maybe if someone on campus had a legally registered hand gun, less would have been killed and wounded.
If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns.





Look at England, for example.





There is a reason for the 2nd Amendment. Control the criminals and the illegal sources from where they get there guns. Not us citizens.





The person who commited this massacre was not a law abiding citizen, he does not care about gun laws and would have done this even if guns were banned. If you take guns away from citizens, then we are all sitting ducks.
no, you should wait a few days to cool off and then do what you like.
Ah...let me ponder that for four nanoseconds.





*ponders*





No.
Yes; there's no difference between a sign that says ';No firearms permitted on the premises'; and one that says ';Unarmed victims only beyond this point';. Those signs and restrictions should be removed immediately.
The person responsible already broke several laws. What would making more laws do to stop it? Regulating anything only effects those who already adhere to the rules, not to those intending to break them.
Nope.
Timothy McVeigh didn't need a gun.





Look, there are all sorts of ways to cause destruction. I almost like the popularity of guns as it reduces other more destructive devices that people would be carrying around with them.
Since when has the anti-gun camp needed an excuse to ';talk'; politicians into curtailing our Second Amendment rights?
yes we should only allow the criminals to have guns (sarcasm)
No.





I seriously doubt that more gun control would have prevented this.





For this moderate (and gun loving and owning lib) gun control solves nothing. I am not sure that more hoops are what is called for...perhaps addressing why this wacko went on a murder spree is the better answer.
When you can buy a gun down at the corner, or out of the back of some guys car, I'm sure a gun control law will solve the problems of today. All the bleed'n hearts need to do is stand up for capital punishment %26amp; punish the people who use guns in a crime. Instead of giving them all expense paid room %26amp; board w/ satellite tv, conjugal visitation, room service, steak meals, gym equipment......
no. what you are talking about is punishing the whole class so to speak because one person was acting out. i dont want my right to own a gun or guns stripped from me because some lunatic with no self control took a gun and shot a bunch of people.gun control has nothing to do with someone with no self control. gun control would never stop the really rottens or lunatics from acquiring weapons to commit harm.
Gun control? People who are going to commit these crimes are not going to care about gun control, why take the right to bear arms away from law abiding citizens?
No.... We need to talk about mental control. Wack jobs like this guy needs to learn just to kill themselves instead of taking a bunch of people with them.





Taking away guns works along the lines of locks... Locks only keep the honest people out. If this guy went to the extent og killing 32 people then I am sure he will go to the extent of finding a gun illegally on the black market.
If one of the students in that dorm were armed, perhaps 30 others would still be alive.
Absolutely... It's time we open up gun control laws and allow students to defend themselves against armed gunmen.
No, it's time to HAVE gun control.
It was time, not only to talk about gun control but to introduce gun control in USA, a long time ago.
yes!