Gun Control and Moral Obligation -- How can WE prevent another tragedy like the one seen at Virginia Tech?

Enough is enough -- I feel we need to refocus our values and moral obligations as citizens of this WORLD to ensure security. Nothing is safe anymore -- not even the confines of a classroom. What happened to peace, love, and prosperity? My friend lost a friend in this tragedy -- six degrees of separation. These events affect us all regardless of age, sex, or creed. Life begins with love and we need LOVE in order to MAINTAIN it. We will overcome. Do you agree?Gun Control and Moral Obligation -- How can WE prevent another tragedy like the one seen at Virginia Tech?
That guy was criminally insane, he would have found other ways to bring harm to people if a gun hadn't been available.





If guns kill people then...





Pencils miss spel words.


Cars make people drive drunk.


And spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat.Gun Control and Moral Obligation -- How can WE prevent another tragedy like the one seen at Virginia Tech?
we can do nothing about preventing another tragedy like this.





if we loosen gun laws, more drunken college kids will shoot each other in midnight duels or in drunken rampages,





if we tighten the laws, the law abiding citizens will be defenseless and criminals will be the only ones left with guns.





so i say: do nothing.
Gun control is not the issue. The issue is that he was insane. The gun didn't kill all those innocent people, the insane person killed them. He could have just as easily grabbed a knife and stabbed them. Would the issue then be knife control?
This was a random act of violence. It is doubtful that such acts can ever be prevented. Additionally, you say that we are not safe anymore. In fact, we are far safer than we have ever been. The world is a far less dangerous place, at least for Americans, than it has ever been.
I'm afraid I don't agree, considering the particular events that occurred here.





Seung-hui Cho, the shooter in the VT massacre, left a ';disturbing note'; criticizing ';rich kids,'; ';debauchery,'; and ';deceitful charlatans'; before killing two people in a dormitory room on April 16, 2007. It is believed he had a history of taking medication for depression, and was stylized as a ';loner'; by most witnesses.





Gun control is not the issue; It is an issue of empathy. Cho's statements seem to reveal a young man who found himself in a world that was corrupt, immoral, and was a threat to him personally. The fact that he apparently had no one to go to, no one to seek out to discuss these thoughts, thoughts that lead him to seek action in the only way he felt that matter?





This simply points out how devastatingly destructive the illusion of how alone each and every one of us appear to be really is; When in reality, as you said, we have little degrees of separation between us.





If we begin to rely on law (such as gun control) more than virtue (human empathy), then our society has already lost its way.
Moral obligation is a problem that may be like global warming, it has gone too far and what little we can do now may not be enough.


There are too many opportunities for mental and emotional health problems to go unnoticed in the world today and the cost of dealing with the problems is too much. Buildings, institutions, insurance, transportation, laws and ';whose moral theory anyway?';, to name some of the costs.


However, I am a firm believer that if we as a people can do anything, and if we know anything by now, that everything must begin somewhere, and the best thing we can do, for a start, is to begin where ever we live right now. Focus on what is right in front of us.
Sure, we all agree that this shouldn't happen again. But you've said nothing about how you propose to accomplish that.





You said ';nothing is safe anymore.'; Anymore? If you thought places were safe before, you were fooling yourself. We live in a free state. When you live in a free state there is less safety than in a police state.





What happened to peace, love and prosperity? What period of time are you harkening back to? When were these golden years of peace, love and prosperity? The reality is that not much has changed. People have always thought the times they live in are worse than the good old days, and things are always going to hell in a handbasket compared to what they used to be. The reality is that people are people.





Having said that, what do you suggest actually be done? Confiscation of all firearms? If not that, what?
You will never have total peace nor total love


People get killed everyday and your right nothing is safe anymore


However theres not really anything you can do to prevent something like this from happening because we cannot have law enforcment and security at every single spot at one time


Im only 30 minutes from VT so i feel for everything that has happened, but i keep in mind that nothing or no one can stop anything like this from happening.
Gun control is definitely not the answer to the problem here. If a person wants to shoot somebody, he can find a gun to do it or can use some other form of weapon. I agree that a gun should not be used against another person except in cases of emergency but everyone should have the right to protect himself and as long as there are criminals out there, they will have guns and we need protection. The old saying ';If guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns'; says it for me. I do agree though, that weapons ownership should be closely monitored, especially the automatic ones that few hunters use and that aren't needed for personal security.
We need more metal detectors in public buildings.
Gun control and moral obligation.... if you have a concealed weapons permit and are a law abiding citizen, then it would be your moral obligation to take the shooter down.


No metal detectors or stricter gun laws, the law breakers don't follow the rules. Don't punish the ones that do by starting the get rid of guns, only the law abiding citizen would do it the criminal wouldn't.
It is a tragedy, but there is no way to prevent everything! Bad things, will happen again! Again, I am sorry for the losses and the people that have left behind!
could somebody else please ask this again
Gun control has nothing to do with it.





Lets see here...Marijuana is illegal yet I could go get some within 10 mins if I wanted to. The same would be true of guns if they were totally outlawed.
yup





I lost somebody in 911





an aquaintance, 1 or 2 degrees of separation





we should think about the causes and try to prevent the next one





Firstly, I would ask in this case, why was that kid so stressed out? And why did he feel a need to lash out at other students? Were they teasing him? Bad grades? Parental pressure? No girlfriend? What pushed him?





Then I would ask , how did a College student get a gun and bullets anyway. I mean I use dto buy bullets when I was a kid. I thought they tightened some of those loopholes. Maybe he went on ebay and bought it.