That comment might make sense if the Virginia Tech shootings occurred in Massachusetts, New Jersey, or California.
But they didn't.
It happened in Virgina, a state with liberal gun laws. It was pretty high up there on the NRA good state scale. Brady gives it a grade of 18 out of 100. Virginia must be doing something correct from a "gun rights" standpoint. So, Just how did gun control cause the Virgnina Tech Massacre?
Virginia has shall issue concealed carry. Heck, you can strap on a holster and carry openly in the part of Virginia where the shootings happened. It's not unusual to walk into a gun store in Virgina and see machineguns for sale.
According to the RKBA crowd beliefs, this kind of gun culture should have prevented the shootings.
But would an armed citizen have stopped a lunatic intent on committing suicide on a grand scale? I mean Klebold and Harris engaged in a shoot-out with an armed Sheriff at Columbine. That's a real trained Law enforcement agent.
Didn't stop them from killing 13 people besides themselves.
What would some armed citizen do to stop the violence if a trained cop couldn't?
First off, a private citizen does not have all the legal advantages a policeman does when he engaging in his official duties. The private citizen can legally only protect himself if he, or his family is faced with immediate bodily harm. That harm must be resisted with the least amount of force necessary to stop the attack.
So, if someone is coming at you and you could stop that person with somehting less than deadly force, use of deadly force makes the victim the aggressor!
Not to mention if Rambo with the gun there mistakenly hits someone besides the gun toting maniac. Bimbo with the gun has just added to the chaos, confusion, and carnage. Think of the liability there!
Hero to zero in nothing flat.
Anyway, I've seen in posts that Cho Seung-Hui wasn't a US citizen (in gun groups where this is a thread no less). Not to mention the guy had psychological problems.
Now, shouldn't that have disqualified him from owning a gun?
Nope, Cho Seung-Hui plunked down the money and passed the instant checks to walk away with a Walther P22 and Glock 9 mm handguns, not to mention how many rounds of ammunition.
Now, does that sound like gun control contributed to those shootings to you?
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