Does Monday's tragedy at Virginia Tech. not expose a need for reasonable, common sense gun control?

If Monday's tragedy at Virginia Tech University doesn't suggest a dire need for RATIONAL gun control, then NBC and CBS need to re-hire Don Imus. How can anyone, in good conscience, fire a man for his speech but allow the senseless slaughter of 32 students and faculty to go unanswered? I am an advocate of gun rights! I hold a Tn. carry permit and I carry my gun everywhere I go. However, WITH those rights come responsibilities and if a person is declared by a judge in a court to be a danger to themselves as well as others, then that person shouldn't be able to walk into a store and purchase, not one, but TWO guns, ammo, and extra clips!! I grew up watching Star Trek and Mr. Spock and this is not logical captain!!Does Monday's tragedy at Virginia Tech. not expose a need for reasonable, common sense gun control?
If the judge had made the shooter's mental health exam a court order, then it would have shown up on the background check. But he didn't. If the counselor, who noted that the shooter was a ';danger to himself';, had tried for a commitment, it would have shown up on the check. But he didn't.


The safeguards were in place, but the people responsible for meeting the standard failed.


More gun control isn't needed, better reporting of mental health issues is.Does Monday's tragedy at Virginia Tech. not expose a need for reasonable, common sense gun control?
I don't disagree that there are certain things that should be flaged when purchasing a fire arm. However, that being said, do you really think that would have stopped this guy from doing what he did? You can not predict what people will do or what they are capable of doing on a daily basis. Cocaine is illegal, but those who want it will find a way to get it. Lets be sensible but remember... once you start down that road how far will it go? Privately owned restaurants are now being to how to cook food (trans fat) and that they can't have patron's that smoke. All in the name of the ';good of the people';.
I totally agree with you. I think if you have to carry a lot of cash for work, you should be tested and then given a weapon. But if you have no specific need for a handgun except maybe someday, someone might enter your property, thats not a good reason.


We have to limit ownership to Rifles and shotguns, they are fine for security at home.
your argument sounds fair but the more I think about it the more I come to this opinion....Guns are probably in a sense like drugs,if you really want one you could get one somehow or another and if your a psycho your going to kill with a knife or homemade bomb or whatever so its the person not the weapon IMHO..............
Good question.


I agree.


I am an advocate of banning handguns altogether, except for law-enforcement use. There is no reason to have a handgun other than to shoot a person.


However, I realize that will never happen.


So we should at least put as many restrictions as possible on who can buy them.


-No non-US citizens.


-Nobody with a criminal record


-Nobody with any mental health issues


-Nobody who has been in the US for less than 15 years


etc.