A Moment of Silence Please

[BSB]

Virginia Tech marks 5 years since campus massacre
The Associated Press
8:38 AM EST April 16, 2012

Students were headed to class Monday at Virginia Tech, the first year the school hasn't suspended instruction to mark the anniversary of a 2007 rampage that left 32 people and the gunman dead.

The massacre was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Provost Mark McNamee, who chaired a committee that planned memorial events in the years after the shooting, said the return to classes reflects the lives of those slain.

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=47058267

[sirs]

Just imagine the lives what might have been saved, if there wasn't the legal restriction that a teacher couldn't have been a CCW holder, while on campus.  Tragic indeed

[Xavier_Onassis]

Why has nothing like this happened in Spain or Japan?

No guns in the hands of nutcases.

[sirs]

So, now a gun in the hands of a teacher, trained to use one = gun nut??

Wow....what little regard you have for your own profession

[BSB]

Ha ha, yeah, the answer is arm the teachers. You're a real head case sirs.
 
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[sirs]

Speaking of headcases, not so surprising how you'd take my comment completely out of context.  I guess you have to do, what you have to do.  Sad, even pathetic, but.....you've got consistency working in your favor, I suppose

[Christians4LessGvt]

Why has nothing like this happened in Spain or Japan?

Nor in Switzerland which has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world?

[sirs]

d'oh         

[Xavier_Onassis]

The Swiss are not a bunch of doofuses like the NRA membership and other assorted gun nuts.

People in Switzerland do not go to school packing arms as silly sirs wants people to do here, for example.

[BSB]

The Swiss keep a rifle in their house as part of their national defense strategy. The United States abdicated to the federal government control of its military long, long, ago. The whole reason for the second amendment was to get the anti-federalists to support the constitution. The federalists promised the right to bear arms amendment to assuage fears of a centrally controlled standing Army. The amendment wasn't designed for gun-nuts like sirs so they can spend their days going into men's rooms, taking out their weapon, fondling it in hopes another gun-nut will come over and admire it.


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[Xavier_Onassis]

Ahhhh. So THAT is what he does with his guns.

[sirs]

It's just got be eating away at B, (amd apparently Xo as well) how this so called "gun nut" somehow manages to do absolutely nothing, out of supporting the right to own a firearm, that would qualify such an asanine claim.  Notice the proficiency of garbage they both have to make up.  Hey, if that's how he & Xo can make themselves happy, who am I to get in their way       

Here's a hint gents...supporting the right to own a firearm doesn't, and never has, equaled the asanine notion that sirs requires everyone, including teachers, to be armed.  You both seem to be perfecting that strawman of a deflection.  It really is unbecoming

[kimba1]

got doubts a armed teacher is a good idea. remember it`s means bringing an armed adult to school which is cleared by the state and the state doesn`t have the best record putting safe teachers in schools.

[Christians4LessGvt]

The Swiss keep a rifle in their house as part of their national defense strategy.

Diversion Alert!
Doesn't matter.
Fact remains Swiss have high percentage of guns.
If guns kill people, then pencils misspell words,
matches cause arson, cars make people drive drunk,
and spoons make you fat.

[Xavier_Onassis]

sirs claims that the Virginia massacre would have been prevented if only Virginia had permitted teachers and students to take their guns to class.

The problem was not caused by a ban on students and teachers packing heat, it was that this crazy Korean guy was allowed to own a gun and buy ammo, and on the campus, where he demonstrated his Constitutional Right to Bear Arms.