OT: This Virginia Tech shooting is just depressing. 33 dead, many more wounded.

[Poventino]

SAD story all around. The only words I can say.

[ShamsWoof10]

As a student of probability, I would look at the frequency of these type of shootouts in America versus the rest of the world.

People go temporarily insane everywhere. Only in America is it this easy to express that craziness through a gun.

But you will notice that the US media will not press this point very much at all. The question is why.

I like that DHorse keep asking... "The question is why" and questioning incindents is a pretty good start to understanding it...

BTW check the homicide rate from state to state across the US and you'll find it interesting... Tx. has one of the lowest and A LOT of the population has guns in Tx.

In reading the responses in this thread and if I was trying to push gun control or confiscation I would engineer this to happen if it doesn't happen on it's own...

This story is fishy from start to finish but nonetheless I wish all the families and friends who lost people the best...

[capitalist pig]

Im pro gun, and a lifetime NRA member. Here some interesting facts from Florida.

* Florida adopted a right-to-carry law in 1987. Between 1987 and 1996, these changes occurred:


Florida/ United States
homicide rate -36% / -0.4%
firearm homicide rate -37% / +15%
handgun homicide rate -41% / +24%

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein


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