Virginia Tech

I'm amazed at how debate about gun control has been stifled in the US. A person with known mental problems was able to get a gun by simply ticking a box to declare he had no mental problems. Is it not one sign of mental illness that a person thinks they are sound and everyone else has a problem? The guy who sold him the gun said that if the students had been armed they would have been able to defend themselves. Can you imagine a world where a campus of 25'000 students each carry a gun like this? It's very simple; make guns freely available and people who are unhinged will make use of them and we will continue to see terrible events like Columbine, Virginia Tech, the Amish village and so on. Thank the stars guns are not so freely available in the UK outside of some small pockets of big city criminality.