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damn I know.. I heard it on npr this afternoon.. it's crazy..

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that's pretty sad.

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Yeah, it was on the BBC here.

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while the loss of life is sad as well as the affect this will have on family, friends, etc. I think it is also sad that a person, the gunman, can live and work in a community and so little is known about him.

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it was the worst school shooting in the history of the us.

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thats why guns should be illegal

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Don't turn this into a gun control thread.

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well if there was no guns then there wouldnt be any shooting would there?

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well if there was no guns then there wouldnt be any shooting would there?

I totally agree, i'm against guns and war, if there were no guns, there would be no gun violence. if president bush wants to declare war on a country, he should go fight himself,
what i'm saying is that leaders should just fight themselves isntead of sending young people to die.

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i mean, guns are illegal here and we dont get many shootings at all, sometimes in the cities but thats very rare. (people tend to use knives instead :( )

I just hope that nothing like this happens again and offer my condolences to the bereaved.

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i mean, guns are illegal here and we dont get many shootings at all, sometimes in the cities but thats very rare. (people tend to use knives instead :( )

I just hope that nothing like this happens again and offer my condolences to the bereaved.

yea.. making guns illegal won't solve anything.. Theres knifes and many other lethal weapons. Besides, what about the 2nd amendment to the constitution? "the right of the people to keep and bear arms."

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it was the worst school shooting in the history of the us.

It wasn't just the worst school shooting (Columbine comes to mind). This was actually the most lethal massacre / deadliest shooting rampage in the history of the US.

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have they found out why he did it yet?

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they said he was actually a student there, but I haven't anything else.

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well if there was no guns then there wouldnt be any shooting would there?

Wrong. The weapons used were illegally acquired. Same for the weapons used in pretty much all school shootings...

Counter to your argument: if other students and staff had had guns the shooter would have been dead or disabled before he could have gotten off more than a few shots instead of killing dozens.
That's a powerful deterrent to most potential killers, and a quick way to contain the damage the undeterred can inflict.

As you can't remove guns from all the world, you'd better make sure the risk of using one except in self defense is high.
And if guns were illegal there's be other weapons instead (in fact the criminals would get guns anyway, they get illegal guns now as well, smuggled in from other countries), people will ALWAYS find a way to kill each other.have they found out why he did it yet?
Several theories. According to one he flipped when he saw his girlfriend walking on campus with another man, according to another he left a suicide note stating he was taking action against the immoral oppulent behaviour of rich people, etc. etc.

Such things will always happen, have always happened.
The only things different here are the scale, made possible by having a large island of potential helpless victims in a sea of armed people, and the massive media attention.
You can't take away the sea, but you can make those potential victims less helpless.
It's rather hard to take away the media attention as well, at least in an open society.

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He actually did aquire the gun legaly, it was on tv a second ago.

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yea.. making guns illegal won't solve anything.. Theres knifes and many other lethal weapons. Besides, what about the 2nd amendment to the constitution? "the right of the people to keep and bear arms."

Well, the one about free speech has gone to hell due to the WOfT so why not that one too ? :)

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