I’ve always had conflicting feelings about gun control. The idea of no one having a gun is appealing, but it’s completely unrealistic to think that it’ll ever happen in the US. There was a rule on the Va. Tech campus that banned guns, but that effectively meant that when someone brought a gun onto campus, they were free to do what they liked. I do believe that if someone was carrying a weapon and was exposed to this, things would have turned out differently. But here’s where my conflict comes in, it only takes one nutjob with a gun to lead to deaths. I think it’s sad that our best option for preventing the huge numbers of deaths is to allow more people to carry weapons, but I can’t think of any way around it. “The numbers” seem to back up the theory that states with easier to get concealed weapons permits discourage violent crime. SIGH, I can only hope that people don’t use this as an excuse to make it easier to create “soft targets” for homicidal maniacs…
Isaac