Quote Originally Posted by Nailhead
Or maybe you should ask, would Virginia Tech have happened if the guy knew every teacher and student was armed just as much as he was? Of course not, kids that go on school shootings do so for attention and they know it will be the only time in their life they will be more powerful than their peers.

If everybody owned a gun, everybody would be on a level playing field with the criminals, and the criminals would second think going rambo if they knew others were packing heat as well.

Virginia Tech, Columbine, 9/11, all could have been prevented if we didn't have such strict gun laws.
I think that is downright insane. Think of the murder rates America has when maybe say 80 million people have guns. If everybody has a gun more and more people would turn to violence to solve their disputes. Virginia Tech and Columbine happened BECAUSE of easy access to guns, not because not enough people have them.

Quote Originally Posted by mfqr
Don't you think that if the VA Tech shooter didn't have access to guns that he just may have found another way to murder people?
Maybe, but I'd rather force him to try and find another way then just picking up everything he needs at a corner gun store. Anything we can do to limit incidents like those should be done. It seems to me like the argument has become, they'll probably find another way if they can't use guns so why bother, but all these incidents so far use guns. We can worry about the samurai sword rampages later...

I guess I see it like this. Guns breed violence. Why not do everything we can to limit that violence?