Do you think stricter gun control laws would have prevents the Virginia Tech tragedy?

No. What could have helped prevent it is if VT allowed licensed concealed carry on campus. School regulations ensured that nobody on campus had the means to fight back.Do you think stricter gun control laws would have prevents the Virginia Tech tragedy?
No. This young man was a legal citizen over the age of 21 without a record. He bought the gun over a month ago, so even when you factor in proposed wait times to purchase firearms he would have had plenty of time. Realistically I can't think of any other laws that could be created to curb this sort of incident.Do you think stricter gun control laws would have prevents the Virginia Tech tragedy?
You give a disturbed person with a desire to kill long enough and he will find a way. What if the law limited how many rounds you can buy? He can stockpile. What if the law outlawed guns? Drugs are outlawed and how hard are they to find. Stricter gun laws may help slow down crimes of passion, but will not stop a determined killer with a plan.
Maybe not...any sicko can come by a gun. Hey just drive on down to FLA...everyone there owns a gun %26amp; carries it, though I'm pretty sure it's not suppose be loaded. But then again who's checkin
No. Profiling the troubled student with his violent anti-American writings would have. Or if the campus cops had guns as well. I said the same thing after the Columbine shooting. If someone else had a gun and used it the body count would not have been as high.
would have to be courthouse strict...


%26amp; we both know , nothing is 100 %...except...?


you know that answer...
no. cause he was determined to kill people. he would of gotten some guns some other way.
maybe.... Do you have to give a reason for your buying a gun? And is there a waiting period. I think if there isn't there should be so that random hate crimes wouldn't happen as often. like oh im mad ill buy a gun and shoot you. I'm sorry sir you have to wait 3 days. oh. 3 days l8r...im calm now!
thats okay I do that to sometimes, yes that place should of never sold that boy a gun, for what reason they did they were wrong. but they should have stricker gun controls. pretty soon we are all going to be afraid for our children when they are at school.
tired of hearing about it
No Guns don't kill people kill..
No, just like I don't think stricter drug laws would prevent drug use, or outlawing knives would prevent stabbings. There are so many gun laws currently in place, and most crimes involving guns break the laws that are already in existence.





Also, guns are just as accessible illegally as they are legally. If people are willing to break other laws (like committing murder), what makes you think that they aren't willing to buy a gun on the street and not in a store? The only people that gun control laws restrict are the ones already obeying the law.





This was a tragic event inflicted by a deranged and disturbed individual who fantasized about violence incessantly. This man wasn't concerned with and wouldn't have been stopped by gun control laws, just like he wasn't concerned with laws against killing. It looks like it was a matter of time before he found a way to kill, no matter what that way would have been.
I don't honestly think anything could have prevented that. It was just a matter of a sad, lonely, kid trying to get some attention. I am very sorry to say that.
No because it only makes it harder for the people who follow the law to get guns
No. Virginia Tech already has a gun free campus rule. No matter if more laws are enacted, if a person wants to commit mayhem, another law will not stop them,
What could be stricter than the fact that the shooter was on a Visa that did not allow him to buy or own firearms????





If he had killed 33 people with a knife, would you be calling for stricter knife control laws??


Would there be a 7 day waiting period for me to buy silverware??





As long as there are psychopaths/sociopaths --- there will be ways for them to kill people.
Nope. People who want what they can't have usually get what they want.
no
No, I don't think so. Psychopaths don't care about the law. They will do anything they can to accomplish their goal because they have nothing to lose. Gun control laws wouldn't stop them, just like laws against drugs don't stop potheads.
Not at all....people who want to kill people are going to get them no matter what. Why make it harder for people who choose to buy them legally for protection? In fact, if everyone was carrying one maybe it wouldn't be so easy to murder people. I guarantee yesterday wouldn't have had as many deaths if everyone had a gun on them. All the killers would know they were going to an even fighting ground and may think twice. Just a thought that popped into my head this morning when listening to arguements on control on the radio.
I don't know. I think if somebody really wants something whether it's legal or not they will find ways to obtain it.
No. Illegal or not, people get their hands on the things they really want. If the guy hadn't gotten a gun, he would have tried something else.
Of course not.
no the man was determined to take innocent lives if not a gun he would have used a bomb or something else...a gun sitting on the floor didnt kill my best friend kimmy, she did when she picked it up and pulled the trigger...guns dont kill people, people who pull the triggers do
Can't really say so!


They are going to get those weapons NO MATER WHAT!!!


All the laws aren't going to stop a sick person from doing what they sought out do do in the first place!


Maybe wrong here but just my opinion.





Guns don't kill people! People kill people.


Vice President D ick Cheney had accidentally shot a hunting companion.


(Likely,only wounding him).


Should we then band hunting and rifles?


We need to look at the whole picture.





Just my opinion.
no there willl always be another way of obtaining them (black market)
He would have lashed out in some other form. I'm sure he'd find a way to create a tragedy regardless...
No I think that a nut will find a gun any way he can.
no


no it wouldnt


guns were probably already banned from the dorm rooms (cuz that guy went to that school) but he had one anyways


so no
If the guy was a foreign exchange student, maybe. Asia has stricter gun control, and therefore someone coming from there is accustomed to having his right to bear arms restricted from him. Take that restriction away, then such a person is more likely not to know how to handle the liberties to which Americans are accustomed.





But I think that if our gun control laws were stricter like, say, Canada, then we would have the busiest bomb squads in the world instead of Canada.





I appreciate the role of individual morality in the everyday peace I enjoy, and I am not looking for government to render it obsolete, and slop up the credit for it by exerting a lot of new control.
Yes.