Let's salvage the VT thread; Gun Control

[kahljorn]

"I agree that gun control should not be the central discussion surrounding the Virginia Tech shootings. The two things have no bearing on each other."

Yea, gun control has nothing to do with trying to prevent school shootings and pointless killing sprees.
Nothing at all.
Except the articles I posted about how they could've potentially stopped the killing spree, but the school, VT itself, banned people with concealable permits from bringing them on campus

Instead we should like discuss uhhh what exactly regarding it? What a catastrophe it is? How we need earlier detection of people with psychosis? I think the gun control topic is relevant, because it's an applicable solution to school shootings.

that thread will probably be dead in the next couple of days unless there's some breaking news, anyway, and so will this one.

[derrida]

I think one lesson here is cops suck. The image of fat fucks waddling around laden with body armor hiding behind trees and walls is a cliche. They fucking wait till 33 people are dead, including the shooter, before bravely rushing in and sticking guns in everyones faces screaming at them to freeze or be shot. Or take Columbine, in which the cops are no where to be seen in the school library until TWO hours after the massacre. Compare this to the students at Appalachian Law School who acted quickly and headed off what could have been a real bad situation.

So in lieu of getting better cops (Ha!) we should really go back to the idea of having a militia. Make the second amendment live up to its promise.