Michelle Malkin suggests that if students sitting in classes had been armed, the outcome might not have been so bad. She calls for a "culture self-defense" and for citizens to "fight back." What if instead of looser gun control laws, there were stricter ones? Strict enough that someone with as many psychological problems as Cho Seung-Hui could never have purchased one? Malkin on guns: more is better. Me: zero is better than one. If nobody had a gun, nobody would need one to defend himself. There may never be a gun-risk-free campus or situation but putting one in everyone's hand is not the answer.
And yet.
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where there's a will, there's a way. the solution can't be zero because bad people will always find a way to get one and you're at a disadvantage. yes, guns are bad by design but you can't undo a thousand years of history. you can't just hide your head in the sand. only learn from it. gun awareness is needed. teaching what it means to weld a gun, the consequences of the actions. there are no takebacks, no sorries.
I agree that zero is not possible, nor is it a viable solution, but is a rose-colored daydream. But I don't think having more guns on campus at the time would necessarily have improved the situation. Should primary school teachers be armed / should schools have armed security guards? I'm hoping it doesn't come to that. For VT families it has already come to that. I hope we find other solutions than greater access to guns.
violence only begets more violence. this is only a symptom of something much larger.
i'm glad you have rose-colored daydreams, at least someone does. i hope for the day we don't have the need for guns but that'll never come too.
nonviolent conflict resolution education starts the day a child is born. this is why, much as i would love to leave my profession to become a pastry chef, puzzle-maker, or elephant trainer, i can't ever quit.
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you said it. if some parents didn't have to work 2 or 3 jobs to put food on the table and a roof over head they'd be able spend more time teaching them that violence is a last resort. it's not the parents' fault the economy is so bad that one job can't provide for a small family. yes, money is great but rich people have family problems too (look at the kennedys). there's just some things more important than being able to afford a plasma tv for the bathroom.
and then again we do have the parents who do spend time teaching their kids conflict resolution skills - like this jackass.
well, i'm sure his parents were no saints either.
hehe. i like the double standards, if it had been a white guy beating a black guy down and his kid said "f-----g blacks" it would've been a hate crime, jesse jackson and al sharpton would've damaged public apologizes and reparations to the whole black community.
the hilarious thing is that the community was shocked - like, their neighbors and friends said they were upstanding church-going people, blah blah blah ... Oh yeah, reminds me of this time my brother and I ended up at zippys after church and were seated near some people who had attended the same service. they always sit in the front row, perfectly coiffed, reverently bowed, etc. Well, he was reaming her out in the middle of zippys, calling her things like "stupid, ignorant idiot" because she had a question about something she learned at bible study. yeah. that was a tangent.
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