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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I know that at this point it is hard to imagine, but maybe some good could come out of this tragedy. Who knows if someone connected with the college will start some kind of revolution(not the violent kind, but the productive kind) to bring the bearing of arms under closer scrutiny and perhaps legislation.
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Under Virginia law the VT campus was already a gun free zone.....making it, of course, a perfect target for any perp. Strangely enough, the Virginia lawmakers had quite recently been considering a bill that would have reversed that - making it legal for anyone who had qualified for a concealed weapons permit to carry their gun on campus. But the bill never got out of subcommittee so was not voted upon. A spokesman for Virginia Tech said at the time that he was grateful for that as it would make everyone at the school feel so much safer. Huh, huh. If only a handful of people at VT had been allowed to have their weapons with them on Monday, I believe we would have been looking at a much different scenario today.