lisaApr 17th, 2007 - 12:54:03

my heart goes out to the families who have lost their love ones.

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DonnaApr 17th, 2007 - 12:55:50

My sincerest condolences to the victims' their families, friends and the University and township.

I hope the NRA and their wealthy and well-placed lobbyists are proud of themselves now. Yes, the perpetrator pulled the trigger, but the availability of the trigger is the real issue behind the attack. The first weapon of choice for a psychotic killer is a rifle, gun or pistol. For the lone individual planning carnage and mass murder; knives, num-chucks, Ninja stars, explosives are all more unreliable and cumbersome so usually don’t rate high on the preference scale – you get the picture.
Forgetting the odd revolutionaries; which are also premeditated; guns have killed more innocent humans, with the express intent of the shootist, than any of the ‘unreliable’ choices above. Firearms must be removed from the temptation of the potential killer!


Emotions are running high on this, but it is spelled 'metal', not 'medal' detectors.

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tonny from belgiumApr 17th, 2007 - 22:04:03

NRA is spo,soring the republican party ,94 percent of their financial contributions go to this party.George Bush was quick to play into their cards after the shooting by defending the gunlobby .Yet statistics prove gun control works ,it would save tenthousands of lives per year in the USA .Comparing figures and statistics with European countries proves that without any doubt .
Per capita you have tenfold the number of killings with firearms .Bush knows that too ,and so do the NRA ,little do they care about your lives .

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The temptation for 'simple answers'Apr 18th, 2007 - 16:16:38

In looking at this issue fully, it's important to understand that the Right to Bear Arms is not something new to US citizens ... guns have been with us 'long before' the beginning of our formalized nation.

And if we are going to objectively try to understand the recent escalation of these kinds of atrocities in the US, we also have to acknowledge that if the problem were merely the Right to Bear Arms, then it would have some sort of historical paralell to the availablity of guns ... but there isn't a time correalation between right to own guns, and these kinds of horrendous acts.

For more than 230 years the right to bear arms has been part of our nation - yet this kind of violent phenomenon is relatively new.

In questioning the logic of the US Right to Bear Arms for it's citizens, it's vital that gun critics understand that there are good reasons for that Right - yes, I said good reasons.

Some critics may or may not know this, but the Right to Bear Arms was intentionally given to The People by founders who knew from their own experience, that without the right to bear arms, The People would be powerless to defend themselves from a government that if corrupted, could impose tyranny over a civilian populace that couldn't resist, or defend themselves from 'their own government'. Can you see the signifigance of that? And the wisdom as well?

It's also important to understand that if guns were removed, it wouldn't remove the violence. (I can't say that strongly enough)

Those with the desire to commit these types of horrendous acts would simply find another method. (The desire is the real problem, not the tools used).

While the idea of removing or restiricting guns seems like the obvious solution to some, I personally believe it's too simplistic and is not historically supported.

My concern is that if we don't address the 'real root causes' that drive these people to kill innocents like this, we'll never find real solutions to prevent them from killing by other methods in the future either.

Clearly, we face a difficult time in our society ... real answers are not easy to find ... but if we're going to have any 'real and long lasting effect' on preventing this type of violence, we must thoroughly understand that the recent increase in the 'desire to kill' is far more important than the methods used.

- Posted by Get Real

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JennyApr 18th, 2007 - 20:42:54

Someone from this town mentioned they had always thought their town was a safe place. Well it still is. This tragedy wasn't the work of a large gang or terrorists - just one small student, and it could have happened anytime anywhere. It doesn't mean their town isn't safe anymore!!!!!

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Shiva KrsnaApr 19th, 2007 - 02:12:58

It's an awful incident. Very sad that people resort to evil as a solution to emotional problems.

FOX and CNN keep reporting that 'this is the BIGGEST mass murder in USA history' .

As nasty and evil as this incident is it isn't true at all. Over 300 people mostly women & children were murdered in 1890 at Wounded Knee. It's not important though because they were only Sioux Native Americans.

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