Do you think our failure to act after Columbine makes us partially responsible for the Virginia Tech deaths?

After Columbine several gun control bills were proposed in the house and senate, all were held up and eventually disappeared.





Are we not responsible for the deaths yesterday, since this happened before and our government took no action?

Do you think our failure to act after Columbine makes us partially responsible for the Virginia Tech deaths?
This answer won't be popular but this is my honest opinion, YES, we should make it harder to get guns but it is very likely they would obtain them one way or the other (obviously these people are crazy and crazy people find the means to commit these heinous acts with or without ease). Personally I think a much much bigger step in the right direction would be for the entertainment industry as a whole to face the fact that they have had a huge negative influence on violence in America. We see and hear so much violence we are desensitized to it and we are so sick we cannot even see that it is a problem and people argue with this point and defend it because they WANT to keep putting trash in their already polluted heads. Some people keep their sanity in spite of all the trash and some do not.
Reply:No action?!?!?!?





The Columbine incident sparked a huge nationwide debate over gun control laws and much legislation was passed as a result.





Newsflash: There are (at least) two sides to the gun issue and there are those that would contend that it is laws that restrict the ability of private citizens to carry guns for self defense against just such an occurrence are to blame for such tragedies, not the lack of gun control laws that criminals and madmen will simply ignore anyway.
Reply:Actually virtualy any study done on the subject shows that stricter gun control laws actually lead to more gun related violence. The same way prohibition didn't stop people from drinking alchohal it just simply made a lot of money for criminals.
Reply:Of course american people through their government are responsibles!!





You've given to this killer access to the arm that's killed innocent people.What did you do to avoid another Colombine?


All over the world, politics from China to Europe, from Israel to Iran condamn your gun's lobby.





Go on Young Americans, continue thinking you're not concerned, until one day yourself or someone closed to you will be shouted.


Just continue swallowing your leaders lies to make your f*ckin' wars that kill your own sons, husbands, or brothers.


etc...





How can you explain after to the rest of the world that your country still being an humanist nation??








p.s: I'm French.
Reply:No, only the fiend who killed all those people is responsible for what happened at VTech. Gun control laws certainly help in preventing such a sad incident, but ultimately it is these crazy people who are to blame.
Reply:Hell yes we should have executed those columbine children to show this is not a matter we take lightly
Reply:Until America is disarmed, these murders will continue to occur.
Reply:Gun control only keeps guns out of the hands of the law abiding citizen, there will still be guns available on the black market for the criminals. What should we do, issue guns to all teachers and students?
Reply:I am not sure whether or not, your question would have any bearing on this particular case, but there is no doubt in my mind, that this was just WAY TO EASY!! Each establishment must and should take every incident seriously and react in a proactive and safe way for all and any who would visit their campus..
Reply:More laws won't have matter it would be all feel good laws.





This guy broke a bunch of laws do you think he would care about a few more.





I don't think so.





The best thing to do is be more aware and if someone looks like they are hurting on the inside say hello.





If more people would reach out to one another he won't be shooting or if did decide to do it he would make him pause he won't see targets but people.
Reply:What are you talking about?





No one is going to "take" our guns away, we have a Constitutional "right to bear arms".





This just aint gonna happen, and if it "were" to happen, how is the Government going to go about implementing this action? 0ver 20 million gun owners or more, and you want them to take "thier" guns away?...





Seems to me, that it would be the biggest mass murder in History! Some of them are nuts! LOL! And what about the 'unregistered' guns? you wont even know they have them, till they blow your brains out...


I say, leave 'em be, and no matter what, anyone with a knife or any other implement, could of killed lots of people, not like that, but, then again, there are those "hillside stranglers, and Son of Sam who never used a gun in thier evil deeds.





Take our guns away, and we become a vunlerable Country. Why do you think no one will invade us? Because the Citizens are sometimes more armed better than our Military!





Nope, I will keep mine, thank you.





I wish you well...





Jesse
Reply:Don't be foolish. The government can't fix all social woes. Virginia Tech murders were the act of a deranged mind. If we could fix this kind of mental illness, we lessen the chance of this happening again. ...not by the government enacting more and more laws.
Reply:Unfortunately many gun laws really have no teeth. All weapons should be registered but outlaws don't register their guns because, well they are outlaws. People like this nut case are hard to stop. He killed and killed because no one could stop him. No gun law would have stopped him from killing.


Columbine was a High school and you can put more restrictions on a high school. Virginia Tech is a large College. with a campus. There is no way to lock down anything more then one building. It is built for adults who come and go as they please. It can't be fenced in and have the same restrictions. It would be very hard to stop this type of incident.


I am all for gun controll that makes sense,but it really doesn't seem to matter much in a case like this. Frankly guns are here to stay. We shouldn't have automatic weapons. Outside of that it's a no win.
Reply:I think this country definitely needs to up it's gun laws, but to be honest with you, it's not the guns that kill people, people kill people, maybe if someone who noticed the gunman's strange behavior tried to REALLY help him, maybe we could have prevented this to begin with. We need to educate the children and well as parents about the importance of strong mental health. With parents having to be away from home to work, and growing access to every type of media (music, television, computers, etc), children are educating themselves and becoming more detached from family. They also may not feel like they have a trusting adult to go to, or know where to go to, for help. I'm 24 and this guy was 23, and sometimes I feel depressed, or stressed, or hopeless, but to feel the extreme that this young man did, meant that he needed help and didn't know how to ask for it. If this country concentrated on developing healthy relationships in children, perhaps they wouldn't grow up to be harmful adults. But it does have a lot to do with the parents. I ask "What do his parents think of this matter?" and "Did they have any inclination their son would do such a thing? and if not, why weren't they more involved in his life?". He may be considered an adult, but this was obviously a cry for help from a disturbed, little boy who never grew up.
Reply:There is one person responsible and he is dead. By the way he is the one who pulled the trigger too. Stop trying to find a scapegoat to meet your political agenda.
Reply:No we are not. One person did this. You were not him. I was not him. Why do we insist on blaming someone else?

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