Did the VA Tech massacre change your view on gun control?

Why or why not? And if it did, how so?





~Morg~Did the VA Tech massacre change your view on gun control?
No it didn't. I've always thought that laws against guns, like the one banning guns on campus at V.T., only have the effect of rendering good people defenseless. Criminals will always have access to weapons. The only way to stop someone who wants to kill lots of people and who isn't interested in his own safety is to render him physically unable to continue. Usually this means killing him or injuring him severely (like in the mall this year in Utah). Not nice to think about, but better than the alternative which is the bad guy having free reign among defensless people until he gets tired, runs out of ammunition, or the police stop hiding behind walls and cars and enter the building.





I agree with Thomas Jefferson (quoting Cesare Beccaria): ';Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.';Did the VA Tech massacre change your view on gun control?
Yes felons and people that have mental problems should not be allowed to purchase.
It only reaffirmed my feelings on gun control. The massacre occurred in a ';gun free'; zone. In fact, virtually every mass shooting that has occurred in America has occurred in a ';gun free'; area. A disarmed populace is a vulnerable populace, because the bad guys will find a way to get guns.
No.
No. Have always supported our right to bear arms, and always will. Banning alcohol did nothing to stop people from drinking, and banning guns will not prevent people from shooting each other.
No.





It's like abortions and prohibition: when they were illegal, people drank and had abortions anyway.





The difference is, when they were outlawed, it was much worse and more were harmed.





Who knows what will happen if guns are banned completely? Certainly, if anything, it will become more dangerous, not less.
guns dont kill people, people kill people.
No,the Va.Tech massacre did not change my mind on gun control. Even though I don't like guns and don't own one,I believe that American citizens have the right to own them.Maybe if someone had had a gun on them,they could have prevented so many deaths.
Nope!