Amen to that.
 
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TRP/PFC Sayah/1SQD/2 PLT/1 COM/1 RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA
[Black League]
SM/Com Sayah/Task Force 1/Eta Squad/2nd Platoon/Red Company/1st Battalion/KBcC Helsa/OFF/Army/RDA(L)

"And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."

http://bd1.battledawn.com/referx.php?serv=2&ref=5755

Probably GTA, depends on the eye-witness accounts. That said, it is close enough to DC and conservative bastions like Robertson and Falwell's schools that it will get that kind of play.

And then will come the counter-arguments that no one should own a gun.

The White House press secretary already got into a tizzy today about unequivocally supporting gun owners as long as they obey the law, and honestly, given things in Iraq, I totally expect someone to blame "Hollywood" and game designers to take the heat off.

Nice to know you can't simply mourn the dead without making sick political points off of it.
 
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PRF/GG Fury/VEA/TADATH/VE [MoHx2][SCPx2][PoC][SotE:HC][SotE:VEA][SCP][MSM][IOC]
Prefect - Stormtrooper Corps
Administrator - Imperial Center

You forgot one, Fury, how this tragedy is directly caused by the lack of prayer in schools and God's punishment against  gays/feminists/liberals/you/me/everybody and his brother.


When the fact that people overlook is that college campuses are just as secure as they were when I went to school 17 years ago.

When the big story was the serial killer at the University of Florida....


And, yeah, it's disgusting how the politicos and the Fred Phelps of the world just have no (expletive) respect for the dead....

Makes me ashamed of my own people sometimes, cos I know we're better than this.

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[-=Nazgul Squadron=-]

[-=Phoenix Wing=-]

FM/SCRW Delia "Evil Clown" Cael/Nazgul 3-2/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/1VENF/VEN/VE/(=*A*=)[SoA]

"So tell the judge I'm ready for the vases.
I'll dance in their faces when the guitar sounds.
Won't be long, I won't be gone.
Been leaning towards the shadows all along.

This is really quite simple. This world is home to some really sick bastards; some who feel the need to make upwards of two dozen people share their 'pain'. People who feel that murder, suicide, and the blackness that is death are a solution to absolutely unparalleled personal problems.

That is the only reason those students lost their lives, and for not a damn thing but the products of insanity.

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Army of the Vast Empire
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SL/GSGT Jakireth/1SQD/2PLT/1CMP/1RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA[LoR]
Rep/Reporter Jakireth/NewsRep: 2/News Division/VET/VE

Columbine Episode III: Revenge of the Budget Cut and the Politician
 
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TRP/PFC Sayah/1SQD/2 PLT/1 COM/1 RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA
[Black League]
SM/Com Sayah/Task Force 1/Eta Squad/2nd Platoon/Red Company/1st Battalion/KBcC Helsa/OFF/Army/RDA(L)

"And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."

http://bd1.battledawn.com/referx.php?serv=2&ref=5755

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; (1)
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, (2)
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus (3) rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton (4) blow his wreathed horn.

-William Wordsworth

I just felt that this applies, at least through my view on it.
 
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*DarkDragoons*


SL/SSG Sandwich Sam/2SQD/1PLT/1CMP/1REG/1BAT/Tadath/VEA [LoR][BM][GS][EW1]
The Dark Dragoons' Site

Honestly, as long as they don't start say he was a bullying victim and that peer teasing caused it, I'm fine. I think the police and the college administration handled the situation well and the only reason people got hurt, was because the psychopath was determined to kill. You can't stop determination.
 
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TRN/CRW Casca "Black Curse" Phennir/Venom Squadron 1-2/2nd Vast Imperial Starfighter Wing/ISD-II Devastator Platform Saratoga/2VENF OFF/VEN/VE[VC:B][BWC]

supposedly the kid was seeing a therapist, I think someone should get fired or re-evaluated.
 
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Raiders
Faithful To The End
He will give them death, and they will love him for it -Gladiator
Eat a hearty breakfast men, for tonight we dine in hell -King Leonidas, 300
Clearly Canadian!

ASL/SGT_Rogueboy/3SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][ES-FirstClass][CDS][CoR]

The gun debate shouldn't be about the right to own arms though. The point of it is that you shouldn't feel the need to, and that's where the police, govt, everyone is failling.

Silly foreigner. You obviously do not understand America.

We have one party completely devoted into telling you that owning weapons means you can take the law into your own hands for almost any reason. Said party is also guided by a principle of resisting any form of law and order that you are not directly in charge of. As if a hunting rifle can overthrow a force armed with Tomahawk missiles and tanks. But I digress....

The other party in charge is devoted into making you feel as if you could hand over even basic logical decisions to government rule, regardless of whether one should possibly keep some choices personal options and to hell with the "greater good."

You see, Americans aren't comfortable thinking logically or just thinking period. And to compromise and handle issues in an adult, calm manner with open discussion and respect for other opinions, well, that's just crazy talk.

Sure, this kid had obvious mental issues that weren't properly getting dealt with, but it is soooooooo much easier to blame a gun culture or a permissive gun-free university environment, depending on your highly marginalized political opinions you learned from talk radio.

/me leaves his two cents on the table
 
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PRF/GG Fury/VEA/TADATH/VE [MoHx2][SCPx2][PoC][SotE:HC][SotE:VEA][SCP][MSM][IOC]
Prefect - Stormtrooper Corps
Administrator - Imperial Center

Arrogant American.

Who said I was only talking about the US? We have stricter gun laws than you.
 
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XO/MAJ Merrick/VEA/TADATH/VE [CotE][SoA][CoH]
Verastinian Republic - Minister of Subversion
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To thy protection fear and sorrow flee, and those that weary are of light find rest in thee.
If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it.

What is happening all over the media seems to be happening here: this tragedy is being turned into an excuse for anti-gun activists to go overboard and start suggesting irrational solutions to problems such as these, involving the banning of weapons and such. My point is if you have a madman determined enough, no amount of legislature can stop him from acquiring weapons and killing someone. And the idea behind owning a firearm, for many people (including my family) is not because we feel that the police can't protect us or we feel insecure, it's for either to just have one or for sporting purposes (I like to hunt.) If you want to own a gun, you don't need any real reason at all, and everyone should have the right to own said weapon if they wish. You can't blame the gun for firing itself....
 
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~ Sol Larith

That would decrease the amount being bought, but that would make the peole impatient. And would probably help them to think up other ways of killing.
 
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TRP/LCPL Luckystar/1SQD/2PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/ Tadath/VEAVE

-Paladin-
To Embrace the Darkness is to bring about the Light

yeah but its so much easier to shoot someone then it is to stab them. When you shoot someone its just so quick when you stab them you have to be close; feel their breath, most likely look into their eyes as the life drains out of them. It's much more intense on top of that there's also a higher likelihood of leaving something for a forensic team to dig up; blood, hair, dangly bits, or something else they may use.
 
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Raiders
Faithful To The End
He will give them death, and they will love him for it -Gladiator
Eat a hearty breakfast men, for tonight we dine in hell -King Leonidas, 300
Clearly Canadian!

ASL/SGT_Rogueboy/3SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][ES-FirstClass][CDS][CoR]

If said gun was all that much harder to get, odds are the trigger wouldn't be pulled at all

I'm not nessicairly against guns (ok, those who know me know that I am except under specific conditions and circumstances). I do think that the rules for buying said weaponry should be a little bit better thought out. Knowing that some idiot (for lack of better term) can walk into the local gun shop and collect what he needs, in most places without hardly any checks. Sure, it is the person who's at fault when someone gets shot, not the gun. I acknowledge this. But to make the gun harder to possess might make it a bit harder for said idiot to obtain a gun.

Meh. I just think things could be tightened up a bit.
 
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SC/WO2/Trevor Evenson/Nazgul 1(1-1)/Wing 1/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=*A*=)(=*SA*=)[VC:B][LSM][BRC][SWC][GWC]

The VEN`s #1 writer as of ESC `06

Clearly Canadian!

Honestly, I don't think handguns should be illegal. Yet the restrictions should be waaaay tighter. And a psychologic profile would restrict it, yes? (This is based on the theory that criminals who kill people are insane,in a way).