Remember what I said?

posted by Jeff | Thursday, April 19, 2007, 10:12 AM | comments: 3

Remember Monday when I said that someone would suggest the students should've been armed at VT? Well sure enough, an otherwise smart guy I work with, who has an MBA and writes code for a living, said exactly that in an e-mail thread at work.

Now that we know more about the shooter, it's pretty clear to me that nothing could have prevented the outcome short of locking the guy up. Even then, that opens a debate about how to deal with mentally ill people, and I'd guess the vast majority of those people are able to function in society to some functional level. We can't lock them all up either.

I think Gonch put it best when he said shit happens, it's tragic, and there isn't much we can do about it.


Comments

Kara

April 19, 2007, 2:53 PM #

Believe me, I'm not hopping on the gun, no-gun bandwagon...but I DO believe that you should have to be a US citizen to purchase a gun in the US.

And I'm not saying that just because of this accident, because it really could've been anyone...but it's just something I think should be enforced.

Jeff

April 19, 2007, 3:06 PM #

Where does it say the kids wasn't an American citizen, and how many non-citizens shoot up stuff?

Carrie

April 19, 2007, 4:48 PM #

Cho is reported to have been a Permanent Resident Alien with a valid green card. He wasn't a US citizen, however, he met the requirements under current law to purchase a firearm.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/gun.laws/index.html


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