April 19, 2007

The Most Upsetting Repercussion

We're in a time of mourning. Thirty-two innocent people are laying a corpse. This is no time to begin debating gun control. People are dead. And it's being politicized.

And I don't just mean the people who are saying, "Well, if all those kids were carrying guns, this wouldn't have happened." I'm also talkign about the people saying "If we had had stronger gun laws, this wouldn't have happened."

Well, I've got a bucket of cold water to throw in your face. This would have still happened if we had stronger gun laws. Law-abiding citizens who go through the proper channels aren't going to commit mass murder. It just so happened Cho did go through the proper channels, but he could have circumvented them. And people could circumvent stricter gun regulations.

Here's my second bucket of cold water. Even if every one of those students had a gun, people would have still died. And one death is too many deaths. Stray bullets going in every direction are not a good idea. I would go so far as sto say that if all the students were armed, there would be more gun deaths in a higher frequency in colelge campuses.

So let's drop the gun control issue and leave it for later. Whether you're for or against more gun regulations, this isn't the time and place for it. Keep it to your selves.

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