As usual the biased media gets it wrong. A 22mm hadgun does't exist, bu hay never let the facts interfere with thestory.

That was no random attack, he had planned everything out. You don't just carry around chains to lock doors and keep people from getting in or out, for no reason. I wish he wouldn't have killed himself, he deserves to rot in jail.

As usual the biased media gets it wrong. A 22mm handgun does't exist, but never let the facts interfere with the story. On the news last night it was stated that you can buy a gun at a gunshow with out a background check. Lied again. Sales by any dealer are subject to Federal laws no matter where the sale takes place.

Clearly it's ok that this gentleman was allowed to purchase two guns in a month. Gogo gun laws!

I expect you meant to say .22 caliber and not 22mm when referring to the second handgun. Small mistake, huge difference.

can anyone agree that below all the facts and un-answered questions, i think Bush should be answering why we are in iraq when our own Country is obviously Un-safe..........

A 22mm handgun would be bigger than a shotgun. Do your homework. He bought a .22cal handgun.

can anyone agree that below all the facts and un-answered questions, i think Bush should be answering why we are in iraq when our own Country is obviously Un-safe..........

can anyone agree that below all the facts and un-answered questions, i think Bush should be answering why we are in iraq when our own Country is obviously Un-safe..........

Funny how there is no mention that he wasn't legally allowed to purchase any handgun. Maybe that doesn't play into their agenda.

Once again it reverts back to our ineffective gun contol in America. God Help Us.

can anyone agree that below all the facts and un-answered questions, i think Bush should be answering why we are in iraq when our own Country is obviously Un-safe..........

The Second Amendment should not suffer due to the actions of a mentally disturbed college student. The logic passed on by mainstream media makes about as much sense as taking away my fork so I wont be fat.

If only guns where outlawed then only outlaws would have guns! But, on the other hand, if guns where indeed outlawed then only outlaws would have guns!!!
Perhaps someone should have told this joker that guns weren't allowed on campus.

First of all 22mm handguns do exist. I own one. Secondly the young man who plotted this has probably been thinking about the crime that was committed yesterday for quite some time.

I wish that the media would stop plastering "deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history" all over the headlines. They are setting the stage for the next wack job to grab the headline as the "deadliest rampage....." We know how bad this was, just report the facts and stop sensationalizing.

True, a 22mm does not exist. They meant to say .22-caliber.

The guy was not a US Citizen, which means by law he should not have been allowed to purchase a weapon. Obviously he either used some kind of fake documentation or whoever sold him the weapon did not follow the proper procedures. That person should be brought up on bigtime charges.

Um... a 22mm pistol does exist.

Here comes the attack on the second amendment. Brady bill round 2 coming to a house committee near you. Join the NRA now and protect your rights!

Give the press somewhat of a break. The guns are barely out there yet. No there is no 22mm handgun, but if I were a betting man the gun has some British or European origin and the 22 moniker is not a millimeter but inches as is the measure in Britain for example.

So the calibre is not 22mm but .22 inches which would be 5.6mm. These handguns exist. The writers, without knowing anything about firearms, see the .22 and assume 22 mm. How can we expect them to know all that? Although no regular person could be walking around with a 22mm pistol. It would be crazy.

"Cho Seung-Hui bought his first gun, a 9 mm handgun, on March 13 and his second weapon, a 22 mm handgun, within the last week, law enforcement officials tell ABCNews.com."

This article is incorrect. There is no such thing as a 22 mm handgun. There is a .22 caliber handgun. Please get all of your facts right before you publish any article. Thank you.

John:
1. why would the media be biased against the type of gun he bought? Who really cares what type of gun he bought anyway, the point is about how he got it.

2. You CAN buy guns at gunshows without a background check. Undercover tv reports have proved this again and again. Federal laws are not enforced 100% at all.

a 22mm handgun does exist. I own several.

John, a 22mm hand gun does exist. I own one. Check your facts. Personally it doesn't matter if he bought them legally or not, he was going to use them no matter how he purchased them. End of story.

I believe the posts by John Sims are focusing on the wrong thing- Does it really matter that the calibur of gun is wrong? The bigger picture here is that innocent people have lost their lives in this horrific event.

had those same gun laws applied to the people on campus mabey he could have been stoped

Great editing guys; 22mm? Thats nearly one inch in diamter.

To answer the debate about the gunshow laws... In Virginia, all dealers at shows are required to do checks. The loophole is created when a private person rents a table.

There's deffinately a .22 handgun. My buddy has one. Even though it's not going to blow a hole in anyone, it's extremely deadly. The bullets will go on and just bounce around in someone's body. The 9mm is more likely to pass through. Also, you can aim and fire repeatedly with the .22, without having any kick. In the movies, a lot of assassins use a .22 handgun.

Millimeter = Caliber--wikipedia

From Dictionary.com - I think it fits
Semantics is commonly used to refer to a trivial point or distinction that revolves around mere words rather than significant issues:

Wow! A 22mm. That's got to be a lot to lug around. Idiots. It's .22 caliber. As in .22 inches. Don't write a story containing information on guns if you can't even get a 22 correct.

Oh here we go. Let's blame it all on Bush. Did your milk go bad in your refrigerator? Must be Bush's fault. Did you run out of gas? Blame it on Bush. Why are we always so quick to blame someone instead of accepting responsibility? Just like a liberal......

22 millimeter handguns are illegal. Any firearm over 12.7 millimeters is banned by federal law in the United States.
I guess gun control works, because he murdered people with a gun that he could not have possibly owned legally in the first place.

This is great news for anyone else planning a massacre: You might have thought it difficult to obtain a gun! You might even have been put off your plan! But fear not: you have a friend in the State of Virginia. Now let's go get those guns.

Please, for the love of God, don't turn this into an anti-Iraq tragedy. It makes no sense.

Jacquelyn, I agree we should not be in Iraq, but what is your point? Our military can not be used to deter or control crime domestically.

John Sims is absolutely correct - the journalism here is pretty innacurate and disappointing; can you guys at least bring it up to a professional level? Anyway, in light of the date, perhaps this guy was aiming for Friday the 13th as his big day. Lord knows what his motive was...

why do we care what kind of gun it was or wasn't....the fact of the matter is, is that he was able to walk in purchase two weapons wtihine the last four weeks, without a problem...end of story...it's obsurd to see you guys spit your knowledge about guns, when below the surface, a gun is a gun and in this case took the life of 31 people..

So wait, we're now talking about killing the 2nd Amendment because of one wacko only a few days after killing the First Amendment via Imus? Wow, the America-haters are sure having a helluva week...

This is great news for anyone else planning a massacre: You might have thought it difficult to obtain a gun! You might even have been put off your plan! But fear not: you have a friend in the State of Virginia. Now let's go get those guns.

the anti-gun nuts are crawling out of the woodwork and are blaming everyone regarding these shootings - except the guy who actually pulled the trigger.

it's too bad that virginia shot down a right-to-carry law, otherwise there may have been a few people there packing who could have stopped this nut.

germany and canada have very strict ant-gun laws, yet they've experience school shootings also. the knee jerk reaction is to blame all people who posses guns instead of blaming the perpetrator. typical lefty logic.

And just what evidence do they have to suggest that the first gun purchase was in any way "special"? Thousands upon thousands of guns are purchased every day/week/month, and virtually none of their purchasers are planning anything sinister.

I think the "triggering mechanism" here was the decision by this creep to kill a bunch of people rather than be a man and accept that a woman dumped him, not when he bought an inanimate object.

Who knows? Maybe it was the day he bought the shoes he was wearing yesterday...

If faculty (assuming their not a bunch of leftwing wackjobs) were authorized to carry weapons, this would not have happened. Effective gun control is only effective for criminals- no one shooting back.

It doesn't say a 22mm it says 22 caliber. The same as a .22 rifle only as a handgun. A very small bullet.

They should really make sure they report accurate facts: I agree with J.R., should have said .22 caliber.

You are wrong, John, ever hear of a "private transaction" or "person to person sale" to in-state residents? Only FFL (licensed firearm dealers) have to do background checks/paperwork.
If you live in the South, check out local newspapers, it's legal in most states to buy from a private individuals without any checks, that's the "gun-show loophole" that the Dems are always referring to.

this tragedy will give the democrats and their liberal media bedfellows more fodder to take away the innocent citizens guns. utah and oregon colleges allow professors to carry concealed weapons and you never heard of shootings at these campuses. if virginia had passed a measure last year pertaining to students carrying firearms this tragedy might not have been so deadly. remember, it is the people that kill not the weapon. think about it

A 22mm doesn't exist, but a .22 caliber does. We all know that the media is trying to get out information, good or bad, as quickly as possible. I'm sure there are a lot of other "semi-truths" out there about yesterday's events. The issue isn't the media.

Lets just all hope the NRA is happy... serious changes need to be made.

A few of you guys are missing the point. .22mm or .22cal...who cares? The man had two hand guns to kill over thirty people. Get you head on right and stop quibbleing over insignificant details!

So not only is it against the rules to carry a gun on campus, illegal to murder people, illegal to discharge a firearm inside the city of Blacksburg, etc. etc. ad nauseum, now we learn that a one-gun a month law failed to stop this nut job.

The LAW (specifically, gun control laws) failed these kids. They are old enough to defend their country - they should have been allowed the right to chose to defend themselves.

The gun in the photo is a Walther PPK (James Bond). It does not come in .22 cal or .22 mm, or 9 mm for that matter.

Why is that gun in the picture above?

John Sims - What are you talking about - 22mm pistols sure do exist! .

John, in Virginia, March has 31 days. The perp waited 31 days, M 13 to A 13, to buy the second gun. Doesn't matter though. The deceased don't care which gun he used, or if he only had one. Had he had none, he may well would have used some weapon of even more potent destruction than a couple of hand guns. This guy was determined, in case no one has noticed.

I wonder what new law the liberals will concoct to explain this one. What was needed was one concealed weapons permit holder in the right classroom. Behold and believe - Sarah Brady will keep you safe.

TO JOHN SIMS:
John,
It sounds like you are pro-gun...but you're wrong. First, the story does not say .22mm...it says .22caliber...and that does exisit in rifle and pistol models.

uh..i'm sorry but there is no 22mm hand gun. anyone on this board who claims to posses a 22mm handgun is either lying or..well, they're just lying.

that would be about a 1" bore. that would not be a handgun, but rather a cannon.

Perhaps if guns were allowed on campus, someone would have shot back? Oh, and I love the morons here who blame everything on President Bush...
Maybe Bush should concentrate on making cat food safer instead of being in Iraq...

Those pushing for more gun control should not that in Virginia, it is illegal for anyone other than officially designated personnel to carry a firearm on the grounds of a public university. Not even people with valid concealed-carry permits are exempt. So, it was already illegal for the shooter to have the guns on campus. Tighter laws would have made little difference.

Who cares what kind of gun it was. 33 people are dead. That can never be justified. I pray for the families. This is not a time for debate.

The disturbing thing is not that he was able to buy a gun, which is a Constitution right, but that a non citizen can buy one.

In response to Mr. Sims' comments, good to point out the inaccuracy of the story (22mm handgun?). Blaming the "liberal" media is so gutless!

Unfortunately, that's not the point. If he seriously believes that the gun laws in this country work that way, I feel sorry for him. I'm sure all guns that are bought at gun shows, under the table, etc., are subject to federal laws. Good joke!

Too many guns in the hands of people that can't control themselves or their actions. Way too easy to get guns and then nothing can stop them from destroying the lives of generations of innocent people. It's not worth the ridiculously outdated view that anyone needs them! Period.

This was a meticulously planned act. How he fleed authorities for 2 hours so successfully still gets me though.

Media did not get it wrong or meant to say anything different. When they say 22, it should be a given that they mean .22. And yes, there is a .22 mm pistol. I don't know anyone that actually refers to .22mm handguns by saying, "point twenty two". Stop pointing fingers needlessly at the media. Concentrate on what really matters. The issue at hand. This kid was a sociopath.

Why are people arguing over WHAT gun he used? Does it matter? Are the people LESS DEAD? Why are these types of guns (with extended ammunition etc) even legal? You can't hunt with them and they are not ideal for target shooting. The second ammendment was written in a different time - it no longer applies. The constitution was meant to be amended and adapted and this rule is simply out of touch.

I just love how anytime something bad happens that the left immediately tries to point the finger at President Bush. News Flash...We all know you cant stand the man, so STOP being ignorant and childish, and leave him alone. Not everything bad that happens in the universe is a result of " The evil Bush administration "...Bad things have happened BEFORE Bush took office, and unfortunately they will contiunue AFTER he is gone... I am very curious to see how the extreme left, who hate freedom and democracy, will try and blame Bush for all the bad things that will happen AFTER he is out of office. Especially if a Dem gets in office.

Jacquelyn, give it a rest. We are tired of that old saw. Saddam DID have WMDs - people like you gave him time to ship them out to Syria. There are sat-pix of the convoys. Re: Virginia - proof that gun-control is loved by psychos - it gives them whole campuses of unarmed victims!

This is ridicules. We say things got really bad after 911. This has nothing to do with 911. This person is a U.S citizen. He lives in our country. This show's that people are not safe anywhere no matter how much protection you have. We can not control those who are mentally ill, nor can we tell who they are by just looking at them. I wonder how in the world are we going to prevent something like this happening again. I even know the answer to that and it is, we can't! We can't tell if someone is all of a sudden going to lose it that day and go on a shootung rampage. What happened to VT should not be compared to 911. This is something more serious! This is someone who is supposed to represent our counrty as well as all the other citizens. Haveing metal detectors is not going to save us and upping security is not going to prevent someone getting buy and doing such a thing. If they are mentally ill there going to find a way to such a horrible thing. In my eyes there is nothing we can do,or we can put the whole U.S on some kind of examination to determine whether there mentally ill or not, but that would be just crazy! So what are we going to do about this and how can we prevent such a tragic thing from happening again?!?!

Why was he carrying around the receipt in his backpack if he filed of the serial numbers? Seems kind of stupid for an engineering student to not see the foolishness in that, especially if this was planned out as meticulously as they say it was.

Either way..I hope VA Tech rethinks their policy on concealed carry. Obviously if someone is willing to kill multiple people, they are willing to ignore that little rule. Just like Luby's...one person with a legally permitted gun could have lessened the casualties significantly. This is what happens when our hands our tied in terms of self defense.

You would think that after over 3,000 fellow citizens were murdered on 9/11 people would give up the notion that passing laws or returning to isolationism will make us all safe. The world we live in isn't secure. That is true in London, Madrid, New York, Washington, Oklahoma City or Blacksburg, Virginia.

john sims, you didn't read it correctly. it says 22 caliber, not 22mm. learn to read before you talk about the biased media. and also, even if they did get it wrong, that doesn't make them biased, just stupid.

Wow, Jacquelyn, I think we are in Iraq because we would be even LESS SAFE if we had to fight all the terrorists that are there, over here!

so a kid that bought a gun a month ago is suddenly an expert shot who can kill 30+ people in that short of a time?

It would be hard to kill 33 people with a fork!

I'm sorry to here that...

that man was korean...

I'm sorry..

now korea is panic..

I'm sorry as one person of korean

forgive that man..

Honestly do you really think it is the gun laws or Bush's fault that this happened? The blame solely rests on a sick individual who felt the need to take out his pain on others and carefully planned it over time. My question is why were there two seperate shootings and how could the second one have occurred two hours later? I find it inconcievable and unforgivable that Virginia Tech students were not immediately warned after the first shooting when the suspect was still at large. Anybody else agree?

Now let's see how long it takes a politician to start blaming the guns. "We need more gun control."

Folks, it is the person behind the gun that is responsible, not the gun. If you use that logic that it is the guns fault then you also must believe...
it is the pencil caused the word to be misspelled
--and--
it is the spoons fault that Rosie O'Donnell is fat.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people!

Hey K. Nyce,

If you shot a 22 mm handgun it would probably blow your hand off and knock you on your butt. No such thing my man. The largest handgun I know of is the .50 cal Desert Eagle which translates to around 12.7 mm.

So if you have got one then I want to shoot it!

For what it's worth guys, if the reporter got 22mm versus 22 caliber wrong, so does the U.S. government. A quick Google search turned up charges filed by the US Department of Justice against a felon in possession of a 22 mm handgun.

Sadly this whole thing is going to be politicized to death. This event was horrific. I lived through a day not knowing if my parents and brother, all of whom work at Tech, were okay or not. Thank God they are all well and accounted for.

The point that needs to be made here is that all the gun laws in the world did not prevent this creep from wreaking havoc on a college campus. I wonder if the failure of the Virginia General Assembly to extend concealed carry rights to the college campus really made colleges any safer. Note that nobody but the bad guy had a gun. Is that how you'd like the non-gun-free zones to be too?

When will people wake up? This college recently praised the failure of a bill that would have allowed licensed concealed carry of handguns on campuses. This is what happens when you disarm the population. These victims were sitting ducks and had about as much defensive options as a duck. The 2nd Amendment exists to protect our right to defend ourselves. The government denied these victims their right to protect themselves. By the way, notice that the evil gunman ignored all of the laws. The only people who obeyed the laws were the victims.

Why are you wasting your time arguing about the type of gun it was???? Think about the actual problem, he bought a gun and killed a bunch of innocent people. That is the only problem. Not gun rights, not caliber or millimeter, not biases media. A bunch of people are dead, do you think you can step off your soapbox for 1 freaking minute and mourn them?

As long as we have such lax gun and useless laws, I am sure that these things will happen over and over again. At this point I am just anxious to understand why and how such a horrific event was triggered.

Guns (powerful weapons) are dangerous things. This is why we as a country actively try to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of other countries. Having too many around just increase the likeliness of some tragic event. Guns are the individuals version of a nuclear bomb.

actually gun control doesnt work. if anyone wanted a gun, theres ways they can bypass these so called gun control laws and get one. you can have gun control, but in the end, it never really does anything to protect anyone

The military has 20 mm guns. The gun weighs 248 pounds and fires 6,000 rounds per minute. Would you have us believe this guy had an even larger gun or could it be the writers don't know what they are talking about? Let's stick to FACTS.

It's called a typo (and many of you have made them today as I am sure I will) about the 22mm. Give them a break and certain foreign persons are allowed to purchase handguns based upon the type of visa they have. Stop throwing around the 2nd ammendment as a defense to this also. The 2nd ammendment was created to keep Americans, from back then, from being controlled and not having weapons to defend themselves against the British government that they were fighting to free themselves from. Not so any jackass with cash can purchase a weapon and go on mass killing sprees like this guy. Anyone ever notice that the countries with good gun control laws have much lower incidences of violent crimes?

The fact is this nut used a .22 and a 9mm that he obtained ILLEGALLY to commit an ILLEGAL act on DEFENSELESS, LAW-ABIDING people who were DENIED the right to carry concealed weapons that MIGHT (I say MIGHT, hindsight is better than foresight) have changed the outcome of this tragedy.And as far as the other nut who is Bush bashing...it has NOTHING to do with this....geez, get a life.