31 dead in virginia

[capsulecorpjx]

I'm pretty sure the Middle Eastern foreign exchange students are relieved the shooter is a South Korean.

[rory]

gun laws dont generally stop gun violence .. it may make it harder for some kid to get hold of a gun, but down here guns are typically illegal (6 months in prison per bullet, etc, and shotguns licensed for pigeon shooting are the only legal guns) yet all the criminals have hand and machine guns, and shooting crimes are out of control.

[nemaroller]

Well - just to add to the debate about gun laws. They don't appear to make a difference one way or another. Recent studies have shown this - detrimental to opposing arguments of both the NRA AND the anti-gun lobby.

As Master stated, before 1991, millions of rural US teenagers had shotguns and rifles in their cars in US school parking lots - mostly during hunting season - since the dawn of the country.

Before Columbine in 1999, school shootings were unheard of. I wish I could point at the fact that guns are the cause. But they definitely aren't. As of 1997 (1991 law was found unconstitutional), US federal law prohibits anyone from carrying a weapon within 1000 feet of any school. Which is perhaps why schools have now seen a dramatic increase in school shootings. But I wouldn't really promote that as a cause either.

Still, the odds of being shot at a school in the US is less than 1 in a million statistically - and of course, as you can see on BBC news 'Have Your Say', all these tragedies end up being is political fire for the opposing liberal and conservative minds.

[MasterBlaster]

Before Columbine in 1999, school shootings were unheard of. I wish I could point at the fact that guns are the cause. But they definitely aren't. As of 1997 (1991 law was found unconstitutional), US federal law prohibits anyone from carrying a weapon within 1000 feet of any school. Which is perhaps why schools have now seen a dramatic increase in school shootings. But I wouldn't really promote that as a cause either.

Hmm funny that's just around the time that parents started getting arrested for spanking their kids. Or video games replaced the girl next door as the preferred choice of babysitter. I wonder if those kids at columbine would have gone off the deep end if their dads had stomped a mudhole in their arse the first second they ever joked about using a gun on another hu man. Or even better If the parents of the kids who abused these to kids to the point of murder actually took a leather belt to their asss for bullying their weaker peers.

to the masses
Brilliant! all of you pussified morons go ahed and blame an inanimate object for the problems you created by not having the ballz to raise your kids. Last time I heard guns can't aim and pull the trigger themselvs.