Should the recent wave of campus shootings pave the way for relaxing restrictions of firewarms on campus?
I don't think so. Gun pundits are capitalizing on the recent episodes of gun violence egregiously. Let us build a profile of the shooters in each case.
The Dawson College shooter had a deteriorating mental state and ultimately ended his life in suicide.
The Virginia Tech shooter was mentally unstable and committed suicide after his rampage.
The Louisiana Technical College shooter killed the two closest classmates to her and then committed suicide.
The Northern Illinois University shooter unloaded the clip reloaded, and then committed suicide.
What is the common link? They were mentally unstable. They planned on getting vengeance in some manner through violence. The thought of other people having guns probably never crossed their minds. They didn't care. They wanted to end their lives anyway. They saw themselves as an expendable instrument in the ultimate purpose of causing choas and pain to the ones who've hamred them, whether directly or indirectly.
Even if every student had a conceleaed weapon, I doubt that would have stopped the violence. I doubt that would have prevented the deaths. People would've still died regardless.
This is why I disagree with the various student activist groups that have formed as a response to the shootings. Their argument fails when considering the causes behind the shootings. For even when a hero emerges, it wouldn't be until after at least one person had been injured and the point of the shooting fulfilled according to the shooter.
Friday, February 15, 2008
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