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well this exploded....
My opinion is that we should neither restrict, not allow guns. The crimes are going to happen either way, be it with a knife, or vehicle, or so on. It just will happen. Giving the teachers guns opens up room for abuse of power. Giving students (or anyone) guns freely would cause an increase inviolent crime.
human nature is set that violence is at our core. I'm not going to start "are we good or evil" but everyone has decisions every day that they make, judgements that they pass. Everyone, if opened up to the right situation and influences, could act just as the VT shooter did.
The cure for this nonsense comes not through legilsature but through education. Teach people responsability. Focus especially on high-crime areas like inner-cities where the violence is most prevolant.
I belive violent crime an issue similar to racisim. Through time, and education it can be weened away. No, you'll never get rid of it but if you can reduce it then that's a start. Think of how people thought at the late 1800's/ turn of the century when white-on-black violence was over a thousand times more common than black on white crime. Their weapons? lynching. Through time and education the mere though of lynching anyone to most "socilally adapted individuals" is, not laughable, but never a serious though. (I'm referring to people with actual social contact, not your boonie-hill-billy whose only connection to the outside world is the corner store).
On a nother interesting note, I had overheard (so I'm not sure it's validity) that in Virginia, you have to wait the 5-day government mandated waiting period to purchase a gun retail, however, at the gun shows, there is no waiting period.
So my points: education is the cure. To help us along the way, more indepth background checks, family history, and psychological examinations might not be a bad idea either, however.
My opinion is that we should neither restrict, not allow guns. The crimes are going to happen either way, be it with a knife, or vehicle, or so on. It just will happen. Giving the teachers guns opens up room for abuse of power. Giving students (or anyone) guns freely would cause an increase inviolent crime.
human nature is set that violence is at our core. I'm not going to start "are we good or evil" but everyone has decisions every day that they make, judgements that they pass. Everyone, if opened up to the right situation and influences, could act just as the VT shooter did.
The cure for this nonsense comes not through legilsature but through education. Teach people responsability. Focus especially on high-crime areas like inner-cities where the violence is most prevolant.
I belive violent crime an issue similar to racisim. Through time, and education it can be weened away. No, you'll never get rid of it but if you can reduce it then that's a start. Think of how people thought at the late 1800's/ turn of the century when white-on-black violence was over a thousand times more common than black on white crime. Their weapons? lynching. Through time and education the mere though of lynching anyone to most "socilally adapted individuals" is, not laughable, but never a serious though. (I'm referring to people with actual social contact, not your boonie-hill-billy whose only connection to the outside world is the corner store).
On a nother interesting note, I had overheard (so I'm not sure it's validity) that in Virginia, you have to wait the 5-day government mandated waiting period to purchase a gun retail, however, at the gun shows, there is no waiting period.
So my points: education is the cure. To help us along the way, more indepth background checks, family history, and psychological examinations might not be a bad idea either, however.
