When Cho Seung-Hi shot students at Virginia Tech, I wrote a post about how gun control is needed:
I’m not arguing that a few people wouldn’t be able to get their hands on illegal guns each year. But if such a law was passed, monitoring these sales would be much easier. It could lead to prevention of crimes like that which took place at Virginia Tech.
I received a comment by “butch” that stated:
- I’m not arguing that a few people wouldn’t be able to get their hands on illegal guns each year. -
You win the small cranium award…
The news broke tonight that Stephen Kazmierczak had bought accessories for his guns from the same online retailer that Cho Seung-Hi had bought one of his guns. Both purchases were made legally. I know that people subscribe to the idea that “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people”, but guns kill people too. Restricting the number of guns available on the market will reduce the number of gunshot deaths. It won’t completely prevent incidents like this, but I’m tired of the arguments against gun control. And by “gun control,” I mean no guns. I don’t care about waging a war against the Government. Nor do I think that hunters need handguns or semi-automatic weapons. Something has to change–we’re too advanced and successful of a country to be as stupid as we are being.