[2ndDivisionVet]

Pinkerton comes close but can't say it...we need armed citizens.

[rdb3]

Pinkerton comes close but can't say it...we need armed citizens.

Right. An armed society is a polite society.

[TomGuy]

We can't afford to be a nation of soft targets

Uh, that's what all those $Billions in Homeland Security grants since 9-11-01 were supposed to shore up.

So, let's have an accounting of that. For starters, how much did VT and the state of Virginia get and what did they do with their distrbutions of Homeland Security grants?

[Trailerpark Badass]

Weakness breeds violence.

[claudiustg]

As they say in Israel, “Drop your locks and grab your Glocks!” :^)

[livius]

I think we’re relying way too much on guns here. I have no objection to more people being able to be armed, but that alone is not going to protect us.

We have to have a “fight-back attitude” on a personal level. Somehow, we’ve lost that.

And we also have to be assured that, if we fight back, then we are not going to be attacked by our legal system for defending ourselves. If somebody had shot Cho just as he started out, I bet that person would be in jail right now. We’ve been taught to be passive and we have a legal system that protects the evil and crazy ones among us more than it protects the decent citizens.

[stevie_d_64]

Not only do people have access to explosives and rapid-firing guns, but the specter of future infernal invention haunts us further.

The only thing that makes my weapon "rapid-firing" is how fast my finger pulls the trigger...Not the weapon itself...

But the attractiveness of soft targets in this country are only going to get more so, if the reaction is to take away the choice (of those who wish to take on the responsibility) to arm themselves for their own protection...

[MarkL]

I had some somewhat similar thoughts that day... And as I was listening to Fox News, I distinctly remember the whining of the news casters, AND that idiot Shepard Smith say the words "twenty year old child." WTF!!!! Between this nonsense, our so called leaders doing their best imitation of French Surrender Monkeys, and congress-critters crying on the floor of the house and senate, we're just BEGGING the terrorists to bring the war over here!

Mark

[hosepipe]

[... Our civilization is under attack from a new kind of weapon: the suicide killer. Sometimes these killers explode bombs, sometimes they crash airplanes into buildings, sometimes they go on shooting rampages ..]

The States and Cities that are DISarmed are most at risk.. those that are MOST armed are less at risk.. Looks like this is going separate safe places from more UNsafe places in the future.. Especially in Airplanes, Malls, other retail places.. Schools, Stadiums, and other Mass gathering places should be armed too..

[Badeye]

Using this logic, we would place every school underground because on a few occasions in the past century a school has been hit by a tornado.

We all know that would be very illogical.

The bottom line remains the same. If just one person in Norris Hall was armed, the death/casualty rate would probably have been greatly reduced.

If Cho was aware that it was likely a student or instructor was carrying concealed, I doubt he would have attempted this in the manner in which he did.

There is a reason violent crime rates drop in areas where CCW is approved, and taken advantage of by the citizens.

[junta]

But this murderer was a twofer a kook and a “minority.” You know the PC types that dealt with him did so with kid gloves for fear of their fat pensions being taken away because of accusations of being an “Imus.”

[ridesthemiles]

How much of the privacy part of the Health deal of 1996 was to keep prying eyes out of the cocaine nose of Bill Clinton???????

I would also love to see a complete panel of every possible test on Hitlery. I don’t think she has a clean tox screen, either, IMO.

[Gum Shoe]

“Did Congress and the president really intend, 11 years ago, to elevate Cho’s “right to privacy” to such an absurd level?”

No. The Bolsheviks were hoping to keep themselves hidden and undiscovered.

[ken21]

there should be training for individuals throughout our country to take immediate action against perps like cho and islamic terrorists.

recent military combat experience would be a plus.