OT: At least 22 Dead at Virginia Tech

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Posted By: David Smith

Also Peter, someone who is a gun proponent said yesterday on TV if all the sudents had guns on them then this wouldn't have happened because they would have shot the person.

Someone else countered that may be true but if the Police came to a dorm and EVERYBODY was armed, who would they know is the shooter? Also, what if someone had a grudge against another person and used the original shooting as cover to shoot the person they were angry with??

I don't own a gun and have only fired a couple in my life. This is because I have a bad temper and I KNOW that if I did own one, the temptation to use it would be so great that I probably would shoot someone.

It is only with age, counseling and Zoloft that I am a much calmer and nicer person. However, if I were 24, in College (like the gunman) and owned a gun,
what happened at Virgina Tech could have been something I would have done. I am not proud to say that just acknowledging that with me it could have been a possibility. Thank goodness I never did something like that because collecting Pre-War baseball cards would be hard to do on Death Row and even harder if I were dead.

David