What would you do about Virginia Tech?

[onthebutton]

whiskeytown,

Initial reports indicate he wasn't shooting all moving targets. Some of these kids were lined up and shot execution-style. Also, initial reports indicate it was a student. We'll see about the handgun training, but how many college kids have handgun training? Maybe he grew up hunting or something.....

I grew up around guns, and grew up in Colorado. I was just out of high school when Columbine happened, and in college in Denver. I grew up on a farm, and was an avid hunter, as were most of my friends. Farm kids, you know. A couple days after Columbine happened, I was talking on the phone to one of my friends from high school about Columbine. We both agreed that it was terrible, but both had the same thought when the reports came out---it could have been so much worse if it was kids like us that went nuts like that. I don't think most people realized that. Us, and most of our buddies, had lots of experience with guns. In a place like a school, someone with our experience/practice could have done so much worse than those two rejects did. I'm not glorifying this at all, because I don't think it's cool, I'm just telling a story. I'm actually kind of ashamed that we thought this at the time, but in reflection, it's very true.