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This was the in the paper today and it struck me wrong and I am thinking about writing a letter to the editor expressing my opinion on the issue. It almost shounds like a polite way of saying to ban guns or accept mass murders 
In my opinion if the school would have let CCW's into school the shooting wouldn't have been so bad.
Gun control laws and Virginia Tech.
Our Opinion:
Though it does nothing to comfort us, we must accept tragedies happen in nations as free as the United States.
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The search for someone to blame in the Virginia Tech murders continues today. Journalists, experts, students, politicians - everyone is asking how the murders at Virginia Tech could have happened. The Associated Press has already filed a story full of the various "what-ifs."
Gun control is near the top of the list. As well it should be: Had Seung-Hui Cho been unable to buy two pistols, he would not have been able to kill 32 people so easily.
Advocates of gun control are already seizing the opportunity. They place the blame for the tragedy squarely at the foot of the Second Amendment. They point to places such as New York and San Francisco, with their extensive gun ownership laws, as good examples of what America could be.
They could be right. Perhaps it is time to relinquish that freedom to bear arms.
If we do not, however, then our national mentality must shift. As it stands now, few in the press are willing to utter the phrase, "This is the result of living in a free country." At some level, the nation must either come to grips with that reality, or let it go.
Thousands die each year from gunshots. Some are from criminals killing innocents, others are crimes of passion or accidental shootings. And, though it is rare, some are killed in the name of self-defense.
No matter how they die, and how horrible the deaths might be, it is part of our heritage. We have always been a nation where the gun is considered a symbol of how free our nation's citizens are.
Our federal government not only must let us to say what we want, assemble with who we want, and refuse to testify against ourselves, it must let us to keep arms to protect those rights we hold dear.
Many argue we pay taxes to have police protect those things for us. The right and responsibility of self-defense is given up in that case, and many say that is enough for them.
However, as long as we reserve that right for ourselves, then we must accept things such as Virginia Tech, the recent NASA shootings, Columbine High, and the other gun-related violence across America.
That's not an excuse for not improving school safety, or safety in general. But unless we want to take the viewpoint of Japan, or several European nations, this must be couched for what it is - a senseless, random tragedy that free societies experience.
In my opinion if the school would have let CCW's into school the shooting wouldn't have been so bad.
Gun control laws and Virginia Tech.
Our Opinion:
Though it does nothing to comfort us, we must accept tragedies happen in nations as free as the United States.
* * * *
The search for someone to blame in the Virginia Tech murders continues today. Journalists, experts, students, politicians - everyone is asking how the murders at Virginia Tech could have happened. The Associated Press has already filed a story full of the various "what-ifs."
Gun control is near the top of the list. As well it should be: Had Seung-Hui Cho been unable to buy two pistols, he would not have been able to kill 32 people so easily.
Advocates of gun control are already seizing the opportunity. They place the blame for the tragedy squarely at the foot of the Second Amendment. They point to places such as New York and San Francisco, with their extensive gun ownership laws, as good examples of what America could be.
They could be right. Perhaps it is time to relinquish that freedom to bear arms.
If we do not, however, then our national mentality must shift. As it stands now, few in the press are willing to utter the phrase, "This is the result of living in a free country." At some level, the nation must either come to grips with that reality, or let it go.
Thousands die each year from gunshots. Some are from criminals killing innocents, others are crimes of passion or accidental shootings. And, though it is rare, some are killed in the name of self-defense.
No matter how they die, and how horrible the deaths might be, it is part of our heritage. We have always been a nation where the gun is considered a symbol of how free our nation's citizens are.
Our federal government not only must let us to say what we want, assemble with who we want, and refuse to testify against ourselves, it must let us to keep arms to protect those rights we hold dear.
Many argue we pay taxes to have police protect those things for us. The right and responsibility of self-defense is given up in that case, and many say that is enough for them.
However, as long as we reserve that right for ourselves, then we must accept things such as Virginia Tech, the recent NASA shootings, Columbine High, and the other gun-related violence across America.
That's not an excuse for not improving school safety, or safety in general. But unless we want to take the viewpoint of Japan, or several European nations, this must be couched for what it is - a senseless, random tragedy that free societies experience.
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