Comments on: Point-Counterpoint

By: Stephen Littau

Stephen Littau — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:31:48 +0000

I’ve been working on her for a long time Chris. It’s good to see its paying off :)

By: Aimee

Aimee — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:27:23 +0000

Chris, btw, great points. I used to be one of those that thought concealed weapons were a bad thing. Stephen has slowly but surely been changing my mind.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:25:17 +0000

The security guard at my high school back in 95′ in Denver carried a gun.

Judy, nothing like a quote like that from the spokesman of VT to come back and bite him in the ass.

I have been arguing the whole gun issue over at atheist in a mini van, it’s not even what the post was about, it was about Fox news, but it turned there in a hurry.

By: trumpetbob15

trumpetbob15 — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:41:01 +0000

Brad,

On my college campus, we called them the Department of Parking Enforcement rather than the title the school gave, Department of Public Safety. They didn’t care about keeping people safe, but man, park your car with a tire on the line and they would hunt you down for their parking ticket money.

By: Brad Warbiany

Brad Warbiany — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:34:01 +0000

trumpetbob,

Back in the day, we didn’t call campus police the 5-0… We called them the 2-point-5′s…

By: trumpetbob15

trumpetbob15 — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:11:51 +0000

Something else I would like to add to your post is how often campus security are unarmed, though I haven’t heard if the VT campus police were allowed to carry or not. On the campuses without armed security, the “official” most likely to be the first on the scene can do no more than anyone else.

By: Judy Aron

Judy Aron — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:27:36 +0000

oh yeah and here is something else:
True fact: the Roanoke (Va.) Times has put online an article originally published Jan. 31, 2006, about how the Virginia General Assembly defeated a proposed bill that would allow students to carry weapons on campus (with proper permits and such, of course). Here is an exact quote from the story:

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”

I wonder how safe they feel now..

By: Judy Aron

Judy Aron — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:14:35 +0000

Thank you for your post.

I would also add that this criminal could just have easily put cyanide in the cafeteria food or driven a car across the campus running people over or placed a bomb in a building. His weapon of choice was a gun to commit his heinous act. He was obviously disturbed and I would venture to say if is true he was in counseling and on prescription medication for depression that this was probably what made him do it. I am more shocked to hear that people knew he was troubled and did little when the warning signs appeared then I am to know he killed using a gun.
Additionally, the campus does have a “no gun” policy.. and look at where that got them. Maybe they ought to have had a “no crazy/disturbed people on campus” policy.