What would you do about Virginia Tech?

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I think that it is obvious that these types of shootings could be limited if guns were banned or more tightly controlled in the U.S. This kind of stuff doesn't happen in England or Europe, and I'm sure there are plenty of crazy people there.

And yes obviously people can still build truck bombs, or fly airplanes into buildings, personally though I would say I would feel safer if guns were outlawed or restricted more.

However, this is not going to happen. These school or workplace shootings happen pretty rarely, so to be honest I don't spend much time thinking about them. I think gun use in normal run of the mill crime use is more distressing.

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I think that it is obvious that these types of shootings could be limited if guns were banned or more tightly controlled in the U.S. This kind of stuff doesn't happen in England or Europe, and I'm sure there are plenty of crazy people there.

And yes obviously people can still build truck bombs, or fly airplanes into buildings, personally though I would say I would feel safer if guns were outlawed or restricted more.

However, this is not going to happen. These school or workplace shootings happen pretty rarely, so to be honest I don't spend much time thinking about them. I think gun use in normal run of the mill crime use is more distressing.

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How soon you forget the horror of Breslan? Did that happen in a place that tightly controlled firearms?

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I think that it is obvious that these types of shootings could be limited if guns were banned or more tightly controlled in the U.S. This kind of stuff doesn't happen in England or Europe, and I'm sure there are plenty of crazy people there.

And yes obviously people can still build truck bombs, or fly airplanes into buildings, personally though I would say I would feel safer if guns were outlawed or restricted more.

However, this is not going to happen. These school or workplace shootings happen pretty rarely, so to be honest I don't spend much time thinking about them. I think gun use in normal run of the mill crime use is more distressing.

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How soon you forget the horror of Breslan? Did that happen in a place that tightly controlled firearms?

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I think that it is obvious that these types of shootings could be limited if guns were banned or more tightly controlled in the U.S. This kind of stuff doesn't happen in England or Europe, and I'm sure there are plenty of crazy people there.

And yes obviously people can still build truck bombs, or fly airplanes into buildings, personally though I would say I would feel safer if guns were outlawed or restricted more.

However, this is not going to happen. These school or workplace shootings happen pretty rarely, so to be honest I don't spend much time thinking about them. I think gun use in normal run of the mill crime use is more distressing.

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How soon you forget the horror of Breslan? Did that happen in a place that tightly controlled firearms?

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Breslan? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breslan_Massacre

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I think that it is obvious that these types of shootings could be limited if guns were banned or more tightly controlled in the U.S. This kind of stuff doesn't happen in England or Europe, and I'm sure there are plenty of crazy people there.

And yes obviously people can still build truck bombs, or fly airplanes into buildings, personally though I would say I would feel safer if guns were outlawed or restricted more.

However, this is not going to happen. These school or workplace shootings happen pretty rarely, so to be honest I don't spend much time thinking about them. I think gun use in normal run of the mill crime use is more distressing.

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How soon you forget the horror of Breslan? Did that happen in a place that tightly controlled firearms?

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Breslan? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breslan_Massacre

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Yes I know what happened at Breslan. I'm confused about how that is related to what I wrote.

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Yes I know what happened at Breslan. I'm confused about how that is related to what I wrote.

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You made an incorrect assertion and I cited an example of the most horrific mass murder of kids at a school in EUROPE. Your assertion that gun control would prevent these attacks is also wrong, sadly.

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Yes I know what happened at Breslan. I'm confused about how that is related to what I wrote.

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You made an incorrect assertion and I cited an example of the most horrific mass murder of kids at a school in EUROPE. Your assertion that gun control would prevent these attacks is also wrong, sadly.

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Actually Russia has worse gun control laws than the U.S., and "coincidently" 5 times as high of a homicide rate.

Moreover, the Beslan attack was a terrorist attack. I do not think that banning guns or limiting guns in the U.S. would necessarily stop such attacks. I think highly motivated groups with the money and means necessary will be able to circumvent any such laws. However, I think this has nothing to do with the content of this thread.

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Yes I know what happened at Breslan. I'm confused about how that is related to what I wrote.

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You made an incorrect assertion and I cited an example of the most horrific mass murder of kids at a school in EUROPE. Your assertion that gun control would prevent these attacks is also wrong, sadly.

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Really? Breslan? Europe and not Russia you say?

Obviously one lone gunman walking into a school and a group of pro-Chechen rebels (terrorists if you ask the right people) walking into a school is exactly the same.

Because, like, both involved schools?

I hear kids died in schools in Nagasaki and Hiroshima when a couple of nukes went off nearby. Obviously they are the same. Cos, it was a school. Right?

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I think that it is obvious that these types of shootings could be limited if guns were banned or more tightly controlled in the U.S. This kind of stuff doesn't happen in England or Europe, and I'm sure there are plenty of crazy people there.

And yes obviously people can still build truck bombs, or fly airplanes into buildings, personally though I would say I would feel safer if guns were outlawed or restricted more.

However, this is not going to happen. These school or workplace shootings happen pretty rarely, so to be honest I don't spend much time thinking about them. I think gun use in normal run of the mill crime use is more distressing.

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How soon you forget the horror of Breslan? Did that happen in a place that tightly controlled firearms?

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The 'real' europeans don't count Russia as a peer.

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Then again, Europe does seem to pair "genocidal maniacs" with "helpless civilians" somewhat more regularly than the United States.