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Were the guns for self-defense, or for mass mutilation? Hmmm . . . maybe those students were just jealous of that dude for all the fame and wanted to top him? neutral

But I dunno if my opinion is really weird or not, but I think if students were allowed to carry guns, one coulda shot the guy before he killed all those other people. Or maybe he mighta thought twice 'cause someone coulda had a gun, but then again he did shoot himself . . . I dunno but I personally think it coulda been evaded if they allowed guns. But that's just my opinion.

I'm not sorry. Before you flame me, let me explain.

I can't feel pity for someone or some people I do not know. However, I can do my best to sympathize, although pity will come into no part of that.

So I do feel for everyone involved.

Here's the deal: Yes, in America, guns are easier to obtain. And they always will be. We have an amendment, the 2nd amendment of our Constitution, that states we have the right to bear arms. We can own weapons, and we have been able to since the country was founded.

And it's unlikely that will change, because changing that fundamental right in our country would cause many Americans to see that as the government imposing on our freedom.

Let me state that guns don't kill, people kill. Remember that. If he couldn't have gotten the guns legally, he would have got them illegally, and if not, he would have set a bomb, or gone through with a knife. If he had it in his mind to harm people, he would do it, regardless of the method.

Also, Dragon, I think it's very inconsiderate of you to mock a tragedy. Mock the media's coverage of it, mock the people uninvolved who think they know what they're talking about, but never mock the people directly involved. How would you like it if someone shot your family and friends dead, and all anyone did was laugh?

I don't care who you are, or what you consider yourself to be. Feel empathy for your fellow human, even if you don't think you're one. Yea, you know what I mean.

It's COOL to be all badass and aloof.
I wasn't really affected by it until I read about this guy:

Liviu Librescu, 76, was a Holocaust survivor who, his son said, will be remembered as a hero. He "blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu told the AP. "Students started opening windows and jumping out." The elder Librescu, a professor at Virginia Tech, was recognized internationally for his research in aeronautical engineering, the head of the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at Virginia Tech told the AP. He was born and received his advanced degrees in Romania.

I feel so bad for them. cry crying

Well, since it's put directly in front of our face in the media, it becomes more important. >.<

Sure, they didn't deserve to die, or maybe they did. We don't know. Yea, people die everyday, but not everyone just goes to class and gets shot out of nowhere.

My moods change from moment to moment, and quite honestly, the empathy I felt towards the tragedy just a couple days ago has started to fade already. I didn't know anyone there, like I've said. I sent them my condolences, and now I don't have anything else to do about it, so it's gone into the background.

Actually, on the news last night, I was getting pissed off, because they're comparing the guy who shot everyone, Cho Seung-Hui, to that guy off of the Korean movie, Oldboy. And that's just plain stupid as hell to me. Leave it to the media to blame other influences. Maybe he was just ******** in the head, and maybe that's all there was to it. Maybe he was a guy who didn't know how to deal with his own emotions or socialize, and he thought it was easier to kill a bunch of people then kill himself then ask a chick out for a date.

Maybe he was just a socially inept dumbass. But where the hell did one of my favorite movies come into play with this? O.o

He just seemed like that to me, this Cho guy. He was scared and afraid and antisocial and he wouldn't ask for help and no one offered him any, so he went out and took action in an inappropriate way. They compared him to the Columbine killers, saying that he considered them "martyrs." But I don't think he's even close to them. The Columbine guys were more extroverted than him. They were all "if you do this s**t to us, we'll ******** kill you," while Cho was like "You decietful charlatans, rage is in my heart, terror is in my soul, yadda yadda yadda." It seemed to me all he was doing was acting out one of those plays he wrote up.

Two entirely different personas to me, they just ended up the same way.

Either way, the whole damn thing pisses me off and makes me sad at the same time, not because of the shooting itself, but because the whole American society and government has to self-critique itself because some, like I said, socially inept dumbass can't learn to cope with his own damn emotions.

So, since I'm getting pissed, here's my rant:

This guy, it's HIS fault. It's not the police's fault, it's not the students' faults, it's not the teachers', it's not the school's, it's not the government's, it's not the easy access to guns, or the law's, or anyone else but HIS. Blame the guy who shot 32 people for shooting 32 people, and no one else. He could have dealt with it differently. Many people do. He was an anomaly, and he ******** up.

There were ways we could have reduced the casualties, I'll give you that. There was no way we could have seen it coming, however. The whole world isn't psychic, and putting more restrictions on people only serves to piss them off. I'm sick of my freedoms being taken away because someone thinks it's a good idea to kill a bunch of people. If we had arrested him, he would have gotten back out and killed some people anyways. If someone's determined to do something to this point, they'll do it one way or another.

There you go!! The reason everyone's so freaked out about this is because school's supposed to be safe. We go to school, and we don't expect 32 people to be shot. Because of our false sense of security, it scares us even more.

Plus, half the public's going "what a dumbass, this Cho guy! I can't believe he would do this. Why would anyone do this? How stupid is this? I'm in a state of shock out of this man's stupidity, because no normal human being would do this, for no apparent reason! And in a school, much less!"

We don't need to impose stricter gun laws, or increase school security. What we need to do is teach our kids what guns can really do, and punish them for even thinking it's okay to just kill someone because you're mad. We should teach our public, from youth, how to properly use a gun, what to do if someone uses a gun stupidly, and give people the right to hurt someone who's trying to kill a bunch of people.

Honestly, what would I have done in this situation? I'd have hidden in a room like a scared rabbit in some bushes. But if push came to shove, I'd have grabbed some textbooks and knocked the s**t out him until he was either unconscious or dead. Most likely dead.

/end rant.

that college gets a lot of fights too
but why'd it have o be a college?
why not a place with stupid people?
we need to get rid of stupid people
and i don't mean down syndrome people
so don't rag on me about that
but still not shooting is right, and i've sen videos of people getting shot, it's not something to be proud about or wish upon anyone.
just because some rich people are snobs does not mean the people he shot were, but everyone has a snobby side