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1. I agree that there should be no gun free zones other than possibly courthouses and prisons. However that would not have prevented VT since as far as I can tell none of the victims or anyone in Norris Hall even had a CCW. There were only about 30 CCW holders among the 28,000 students and professors. So there was no CCW holder there to stop the shooter.

2. We need as a society to teach our childen to defend themselves rather than accepting the mantra "Violence is never the answer." If the kids at VT had been raised to defend themselves there probably wouldn't have been as many victims even if none of them had a gun.

3. There are already restrictions on the right to bear arms including felons, minors and the mentally ill who have been involuntarily committed. I personally don't have a problem with those categories. Frankly I don't think a psycopath like the VT shooter should have been able to get a gun. And the only reason he could was because he voluntarily committed himself rather than being involutarily committed.

In the end, we as a society need to understand that we are each responsible for defending ourselves with whatever weapons are available. However, society also needs to be responsible for putting away demonstrably dangerous people. This isn't liberal or conservative, it is Biblical. In the Old Testament, God ordered fathers as the head of households to stone sons who had proven themselves to be irretrievably rebellious, i.e. dangerous to the people. While the letter of that command doesn't stands anymore, the principle behind it does. Society needs to protect itself and its members from evil people. Multiple violent felons and psycopaths like the VT shooter are evil.
They shouldn't get weapons.

Sorry for the long post but this thread got a lot of thoughts going.