Keep in mind that Cho Seung-Hui is the only one responsible for the massacre at Virginia Tech. Nobody else was involved. He was absolutely determined to cause death and pain to those whom he had come to despise, including himself.
So, what would Cho have done if nobody were to have sold him a gun? My thoughts are that he would have gone to the dorm, bludgeoned the woman to death with a legally-purchased hammer or other trauma-inducing “weapon,” and then proceed to engineering classes with a home-made explosive device (again, made with legally purchased materials) and proceed to blow himself and an unknown number of students to kingdom come. After all, the latter method is used almost daily by homicide bombers in the Middle East — why not by Cho as well?
What could have stopped such a scenario? Restricting the sale of common tools? Outlawing the sale of fertilizer or mothballs or anything explosively volatile? Controlling the distribution of nails or ball bearings or hardware that could be used as improvised projectiles? Ridiculous.
What could have stopped the scenario that actually took place? Probably nothing, but campus security and staff (and even qualified students) packing loaded weapons would have gone a long way toward reducing the magnitude of the tragedy.
The statistics about crime rates and guns are clear; the rate of violent crime in a given municipality or state typically is inversely proportional to citizens rights to conceal and carry. It’s that simple. Although Virginia allows conceal and carry, the VT Campus is an island where no such self-protection is allowed. That needs to change.
The NRA-ILA website is a good place to go for a compendium of information regarding firearms. The NRA has posted a statement there about the shootings and will update when all facts are known.
After watching the videos and seeing a picture of Cho holding a claw hammer, I rest my case.
Let’s look at the current train of thought. Since guns kill people, that means pencils misspell words and spoons make Rosie O’Donnell fat. Cho was so far gone he would have used anything available for his rampage. Because of the hammer picture, will Home Depot be held as an accomplice? I’m just pointing out that people need to think clearly before blaming weapon owners and dealers for this.
Speaking of Rosie, she will be leaving “The View” in June. The only thing she ever said on that show that came close to the truth was her declaration that there could never be gun control in America because of the (evil) NRA. In fact, she is right. The NRA is the largest “civil rights” organization in America — bigger than the NAACP, ACLU and CAIR, and still growing — still defending the second amendment.