Now here's something really messed up

[Spiffor]

Re: Now here's something really messed up

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Mr. Thompson gave a speech at Virginia Tech advocating that students be permitted to carry concealed weapons on campus. To promote his message he'll be selling weapons at cost there for the next few days.

Only in the US

(well, maybe in Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq too)

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Asher
IIRC this guy also sold a gun to a V-tech student who killed himself 8 months after the massacre.

Didn't read the OP did you?

[Arrian]

So, where did the shooter get the actual weapon and ammo, then?

-Arrian

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by onodera
Right to bear arms does not work. This is fairly obvious.

Duty to bear arms is what America needs. If every VTech student was armed because he/she had to and was properly trained to shoot (a mandatory high school subject?), everything would be different.

Imagine what would happen every time a Brad found out that his Buffy was shagging an Obama.

Oh, and BTW, do you know the story behind the history of the Honor System? Back in the 1840s a UVa student got into a quarrel with another student on the campus lawn over an incident of cheating. One of the professors intervened and pronounced punishment of the offender. The student produced a pistol and shot the professor dead. Shortly afterwards the terrified faculty invented a system of discipline which took them out of the loop.

[Patroklos]

There was another incident in Finland less than a year ago.

I was just at the VT for their spring football game last weekend and took a look at the memorial. Nice, though cheaply made. I doubt it will last 50 years.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
The solution then is to have campus sponsored gun shops

This is actually a fantastic idea. If schools started selling guns in their bookstores nobody would be able to afford them. But since they're on sale in the official bookstore the school would put a lot of resources into making sure no outside guns could be brought in, ensuring that nobody would have any guns on campus at all!

[Alinestra Covelia]

The right to bear arms.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


Didn't read the OP did you?

Don't play the ******* card if you can't back it up.

The OP mentions nothing about the recent suicide.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


Imagine what would happen every time a Brad found out that his Buffy was shagging an Obama.

Oh, and BTW, do you know the story behind the history of the Honor System? Back in the 1840s a UVa student got into a quarrel with another student on the campus lawn over an incident of cheating. One of the professors intervened and pronounced punishment of the offender. The student produced a pistol and shot the professor dead. Shortly afterwards the terrified faculty invented a system of discipline which took them out of the loop.

honor killing

I think you need to reintroduce dueling in the US, and have a class on how to duel properly in the high school

I am sure that no dirty criminal would want to attack innocent civilians than

[Aeson]

Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave
I think you need to reintroduce dueling in the US, and have a class on how to duel properly in the high school

I am sure that no dirty criminal would want to attack innocent civilians than

Gunslingers

Americans who can't get any of their obese digits inside a trigger guard

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
The right to bear arms.

Furry Love

Cant bear to be without it

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Asher


Don't play the ******* card if you can't back it up.

The OP mentions nothing about the recent suicide.

Yes, it does. It states that Mr. Thompson sold guns to the VA Tech killer and a student who shot up another school.

Like anyone cares whether either perpetrator lived?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


Yes, it does. It states that Mr. Thompson sold guns to the VA Tech killer and a student who shot up another school.

Like anyone cares whether either perpetrator lived?

What the hell, doc. Did you not read.

Neither of those are what I was referring to -- there was a young Asian student who -- 4 months ago -- killed himself with a gun purchased at the same store that the V-Tech shooter bought his at.

My comment used the word ALSO which was key. It means in addition to!

This guy who killed himself went into a massive depressive funk after the shooting and ended up buying a gun with his dad's credit card at the store, and then killed himself.

This is obviously not mentioned at all in the OP.

You can apologize publicly for misreading me and becoming a dick about it.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Asher


What the hell, doc. Did you not read.

Neither of those are what I was referring to -- there was a young Asian student who -- 4 months ago -- killed himself with a gun purchased at the same store that the V-Tech shooter bought his at.

My comment used the word ALSO which was key. It means in addition to!

This guy who killed himself went into a massive depressive funk after the shooting and ended up buying a gun with his dad's credit card at the store, and then killed himself.

This is obviously not mentioned at all in the OP.

You can apologize publicly for misreading me and becoming a dick about it.

Glad your back Asher, hope you can stay awhile

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Asher


What the hell, doc. Did you not read.

Neither of those are what I was referring to -- there was a young Asian student who -- 4 months ago -- killed himself with a gun purchased at the same store that the V-Tech shooter bought his at.

My comment used the word ALSO which was key. It means in addition to!

This guy who killed himself went into a massive depressive funk after the shooting and ended up buying a gun with his dad's credit card at the store, and then killed himself.

This is obviously not mentioned at all in the OP.

You can apologize publicly for misreading me and becoming a dick about it.

So you're saying this Erik Thompson sold the guns that slaughtered the Tech students and the Northern Illinois U. students, and additionally yet another student bought a gun from him with which he committed suicide?