VT Killer Ruled Mentally Ill by Court; Let Go After Hospital Visit
First of all it's amazing to me that someone would state that the 32 people that were massacred didn't need a gun. Second of all if why do we have any faith that government can do any kind of "gun control" effectively? From the article:
A Virginia court found that Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho was "mentally ill" and dangerous. Then, the state let him go.
In 2005, after a district court in Montgomery County ruled that Cho was either a danger to himself or to others -- the legal criteria to obtain a detention order -- he was evaluated by a state doctor and ordered to undergo outpatient care
Mentally ill and dangerous yet he can purchase guns legally with impunity? If this isn't yet another example of dysfunctional government, I don't know what is. I realize that even if he wouldn't have been able to purchase a gun legally, he could have obtained one illegally. Your statement seems to indicate that since he had no social skills more or less he would not have been able to find the means to obtain a gun illegally. Maybe, maybe not. Anyway there is no reason to believe that governments in the U.S. could effectively confiscate all guns IMO and stating that since their are nut cases that will abuse the right to own a gun then we should take them away from everyone seems to be way over the top to me.