Gun control is a very tough topic. I believe a number of things on the left, and some on the right.

Guns should be regulated as they are in many states. A gun cannot be legally sold to anyone with a criminal record, nor can they be sold to someone with a history of violence, which would be on the record anyways. And if it isn’t like this, then it should be.

It should NOT be legal to carry a handgun whilst concealed. To me it makes it too easy for someone to use it for malicious intent, such as this particular incident.

It should be legal to own guns in your own home however. Though some view it as dumb, security is an issue.

Banning guns in their entirety breaks the constitution, and it’s beyond stupid. Illegal gun sales EXIST. Criminals can still get them. And without one at your side, what would you do?

Of course, I live in a small town, and am not of age to own a gun. I would have no reason to own one here, but if I was in a bad part of a town, what then?

And I don’t care to join the debate with yourself that you seem already to have won.

I’m sure the Courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia will agree that the School was criminally negligent — to the tune of millions of dollars.”

It’ll be just another example of overzealous greedy Volvo-driving latte-sipping liberal puke trial lawyers milking the system for their own personal gain, right Frank? Just like when they try to hold corporations like Eli Lilly responsible for their negligence?

Oh, wait. That’s different.

However, there was literally a killer on the loose. The administration of the University is to blame — including the Police — for not taking every step possible to ensure the safety of the students.

They sent eMails! I’m in College. I read my College eMails about once a month. The students could have been sleeping or in those rooms, you know, where the teacher talks, and you write things down, oh, yeah! Classes!

It was not handled properly. I am sure that lawyers were on the phone within minutes of putting 2 and 2 together.

I’m sure the Courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia will agree that the School was criminally negligent — to the tune of millions of dollars.

You may not have brought up the automobiles, Jay, but you sure brought up the bullshit.

That’s it I’m done for the day. I’m going to blow a gasket. I need to go clean something ….

Calm down, LM!

It’s well known that people residing legally in the United States have virtually all the rights of natural born citizens.

HUNTING MY ASS! Those guns are designed to hunt PEOPLE! Not freakin cute and fuzzy bunnies, moose, turkey, bear, deer, antelope, or elephants – P-E-O-P-L-E !!! It’s like I’m talking to one of my kids here!!!! What moron goes hunting for anything with a damned 9MM? The only time I’ve seen someone take a handgun on a hunting trip was to put the animal out of its misery if they didn’t get a good shot at the get go and even then most won’t use them!!!

And shooting for fun? PLEASE! Where is the ‘fun’ in having something recoil on you so hard you could break your damned wrist? You want target practice chief get a bow and freakin’ arrow and have at it – same thing and it actually requires a Hell of a lot more skill (something I do as well), thanks!

You know what’s real funny about the ass who grazed me? The next year he accidentally shot his damned toes off! I kid you not I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried! How’s that for transendence?!

That makes me want to LOL out loud…

Sorry, but you personal experience does not give you a leg up in the debate. There are others who were probably in the same situation that would have the complete opposite opinion of you, so its irrelevant.

They have no place in a civil society and you damned well know that the intent of the Constitution was not for every person who feels they need to compensate for something or has a touch of paranoid scizophrenia to own one.

Oh give me a huge freaking break with that ‘compensation’ and paranoia nonsense. The majority of gun owners use their guns for several reasons:

1. Hunting
2. Target shooting
3. Shooting for fun

Yes, people keep them in their home for defense and yes, many people have used them to protect themselves.

The overwhelming majority of gun owners in this country are law abiding, everyday citizens just like yourself. It’s people like you that crap over any chance at a dialog when you start talking ‘compensation’ and ‘paranoia’ nonsense.

I mean, really. What the hell do you care if some guy takes his 9mm Beretta down to a shooting range from time to time and shoots at targets?

Do I even need to mention how insanely out of control this whole country is if not only are we arming ourselves with these weapons but apparently in the state of VA even if you aren’t a citizen of the US you can buy a freakin’ gun here???????? But one only every 30 days??????????

JESUS H. CHRIST this almost makes me want to go to church and pray for the freakin’ fate of the nation because damn we are all screwed!!!!!

There are ‘reportedly’ 26,000 acres at Virginia Tech. There are also ‘reportedly’ 26,000 students. It’s about half a mile between the two places where tragedy struck yesterday.

I have pictures of myself at Virginia Tech with my uncle, when he was a student there and also when he graduated. My son has three very close friends who graduated from ‘Tech. There were former Great Bridge High School grads with full scholarships to ‘Tech. He’d often visit them on a routine basis and actually ‘lived’ in the dormrooms with them for days at a time during special evants held on campus. Many of his classmates graduated with honors from ‘Tech. Obviously, I have a special place in my heart for what I lovingly refer to as “VPI”.

What the world doesn’t know or understand is that ‘Tech is bigger, land wise, than Philadelphia and some of it’s suburbs put together. Even with the police force in Blacksburg as well as the Campus Security, they lack the manpower a big city would have had to follow up the possibility of another individual being part of the massacre. If they thought there was more than one ’shooter’ the National Guard would have been called in to help out. Unless, of course, they were too busy in Iraq and couldn’t afford to lose the men to go on a wild goose chase throught the Mountains of the Blue Ridge looking for a non-discript individual who may or may not have been on campus! No, the Administration did the right thing.

The Administration did exactly what any administration would have done under the same circumstances with the information they had first received. The police on both the campus and the surrounding areas, performed their duties as well as they could given the massacre and what must have been “horror” for them at the time.

Even though he was once Dominican, one of the father’s of my son’s friends was a citizen long before he married his wife and their children (who later graduated from ‘Tech)were born. He is a hardworking successful American, as many previous “foreigners” are.

With many people feeling sorrow at this time, it is understandable why they will be in shock and live with this trauma for years. They will demand answers that will never come. Once again, it will be another ’sad’ day for America, forever.

News reporters doing what they call “their job’s” are anxious to point blame on why it took so long to notify students, etc. Even one reporter in another part of the world wrote that this tragedy was “As American as Apple Pie”.

I, on the other hand, believe it is time to close our doors. Literally. No more free handouts to non-Americans on any level, no matter where they come from, how much money they have or under what circumstances they need to seek asylum in America. Somehow underneath it all, lies a common thread, an American thread that foreign nationals never learn until their offspring’s offspring learn what it is all about.

You just don’t go to somebody elses house and disrespect the family. Virginia Tech is one of the finest families I have ever known and if they don’t close their doors to foreign nationals after this I’ll want to know why.

Otherwise, history is repeating itself. What DID we learn from 9-11-2001?

Commentary by Barbara Anne Wood-Post

People had relatively unlimited access to firearms in those days, and yet mass murders were found only within the realm of serial killers; the only mass “spree” killing in decades took place at the University of Texas in 1966. Why?

Last year, in San Francisco and at the University of North Carolina, lunitics used SUV’s to run down and kill innocent civilians.

Clearly our society has serious problem — it is fostering the notion that killing as many innocent people as possible is the most spectacular way that an individual can rid himself of his problems.

Only an idiot would try to make a direct connection between these mass killings and firearms.

I was grazed in an accident and it burned like nothing I’ve ever felt before in my life and left a lovely scar. I’d rather have four more kids and another set of kidney stones before I feel that again. You know what that scar is? A mark of someone’s stupidity who just had to have a freakin’ gun – for safety, security, because it was his ‘right’, and all those other bullshit reasons.

I also did a short internship at the city morgue, so I am well aware of what shooting victims look like – inside and out.

Look, I’m not saying take all the guns away. I’m saying take the handguns and the automatics and semi-automatics away. They have no place in a civil society and you damned well know that the intent of the Constitution was not for every person who feels they need to compensate for something or has a touch of paranoid scizophrenia to own one.

Twit.

Have you ever seen a Nighfire exercize with two M-60 machine guns laying down a crossfire, and every 5th round is tipped with white phosphorus? *

Have you ever fired an M-60 machine gun?

I know exactly what weapons can do, which is why there will never be one in my house.

But do I believe that because weapons can, in the wrong hands, do a lot of damage, that no one should have one?

NO.

* After I saw that crossfire, I reported to the Orderly Room, and respectfully informed them that I would never fire a weapon at another human being, and I demanded to be reassigned from the Infantry.

It didn’t get me out of the Army, it didn’t get me out of being sent to a combat zone. It didn’t even get me excused from carrying a weapon. But I have never owned one, nor will I.

If defending the rights of others to own a weapon, as they are permitted to do under the Second Amendment to the Constitution, is called “running interference” by you, well, OK.

No it doesn’t, because we’re not talking about the use of guns limited to one’s own private property, and because cars, unlike guns, are not designed to kill people.

What is this, false analogy day down at the RNC? You get two for the price of one or something?

Silly me: every day is false analogy day if you’re a Republican.

Christ almighty, 32 people murdered on a college campus. Can’t you jerks give the talking points a rest for just one day?

And as for the bullshit link you provided, maybe you didn’t read enough of it to come across this sentence, which not even the racist dipshit who wrote it was dishonest enough to omit:

It is true that we (USA) have a high murder rate, mostly of criminals killing criminals, but a distressingly large number of people killing their spouses in anger, and the rate of “stranger killings” is rising.

Pay attention, Pedro: overall crime rate is not the issue here; murder by firearms is, and you know it.

Once again, Pedro, you are a disgrace to your (alleged) profession. You nauseate me.

What does that have to do with anything? And what constitutes a ‘gun nut’ exactly?