Comments on: Stopping Killers

By: TC@LeatherPenguin

TC@LeatherPenguin — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:59:52 +0000

(strike “children”; insert “women”

did I just do a Freud?

By: TC@LeatherPenguin

TC@LeatherPenguin — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:57:56 +0000

James, your statement shows you know absolutely nothing about the average bearer of a duly licensed firearm.

And you have no frickin’ idea what it means when it comes “presence of mind.”

If you hear “POP-POP-POP” coming from outside your classroom door, your “presence of mind” is immediately focused on DROPPING whoever walks into your classroom brandishing a piece.

Those V-Tech students were not a pack of middle school kids. They were, on the whole, adult men and children.

And considering it was a campus in Virginia, a good portion were probably fairly familiar with baggin squirrels since they were kids “toting” WristRockets.

By: Quilly Mammoth

Quilly Mammoth — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:53:42 +0000

The only way to beat an ambush is to charge it.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:53:51 +0000

The gun control issue is clearly complicated and wrought with emotion, especially in the wake of such a horrible tragedy. There is no doubt that this issue will continue to play itself out in the media in the coming weeks and months… check this Reuters video clip. http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/217425/US

By: Gaius

Gaius — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:52:56 +0000

It takes one person to make a difference. How many former military are in attendance at VT? How many of them have permits but obey the rules and don’t carry at school?

The outcome may not have been different, but the victims were denied the chance at a different outcome.

By: James

James — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:48:32 +0000

Armed students would not have done anything to stop the shooter.

People are assuming too much. You have to have the correct “present of mind” to do that. That takes years of proper training.

Students with guns make it near impossble for the police to know who is the bad guy.

The idea sounds useful, but in reality it’s not.

My suggest is to have better trained police who know how to response to shootings. It was simple stupidity
on the police’s part not to alert school officals and students that a shooting had occurred earlier.

People have to understand that society has a limited ability to recognize, in time, events that lead up to these kind of tragedies.

The proper word for what happened is ambushed. It’s hard to stop ambushes.