22 people gunned down at Virginia Tech

[jl1966]

The thing about all of this is, yes if there had been an armed student or faculty member present, the outcome may have been less horrific. However, the killer purchased his weapons legally, he had his green card, produced three forms of I.D., legal as anything. He had been handled by the VT police twice, in Nov. and Dec. of 2005 upon reports of annoying behavior towards a couple of female students. He had a history among his fellow students of wierd behavior. He had expressed thoughts of suicide. He had been voluntarily admitted to a mental health facility for two days in Dec. 2005. Why did this not show up? the gun control groups always go on about "common sense gun laws", we all know what that is about. Maybe we as gun owners need to get behind some real common sense reforms in gun laws. Again, the question is, how? How do you not prevent a law abiding citizen from owning a gun, yet stop that same citizen, if he acts wierd or shows signs of mental oddities, from owning that same gun. This guy had a clean record, he was not hauled off to a rubber room by the cops, he was voluntarily admitted for treatment.