guns don't kill people...people kill people...ban people..it's for the children

Sad Heart Felt And Very Tragic Nothing More To Say

aquart, Hollywood movies are not a good historical source. The murder rate was much lower in the "wild west days". Also, if people were armed there would be fewer senseless bar fights, because peolpe would be afraid to start a confrontation. A polite society is an armed society.

i feel deeply sorry for those of you who still believe that gun control is wrong and unnecessary....

take a look around at what it's doing to your country, to your kids, to your future generations....

no, don't blame tv, don't blame video games or rappers, blame your government, america

I think that colleges should make a plan of action that students could follow in case this situation occurs again just like what the high schools did after Columbine. High schools have a lock-down procedure they follow once an alarm is set off to alert the school of a shooting. That could possible be one of the solutions to events like these.

Wayne, sorry to hear you were mistaken for the gunman. I've reporting on the matter ALL day - and most of the night. I updated my blog in an effort to help people get the word that you are NOT the murderer.

Be very careful over the next several days. Some folks *want* to blame someone. Let's hope it's not you!

I agree. Clearly, the answer to these gun shootings is more guns. Let's have em in bars. Let's have em at the DMV. Let's put them in divorce courts and in movie theatres. Let's have em in churches too. i know I would feel so much safer if I had a weapon at the ball game.

I understand both sides' argument, but imagine this:
a gunman walks in student union and starts shooting, someone with ccw starts to shoot back and kills the gunman, happy ending right? except in the real world it's most likely that there will be more than one guy with ccw licence in the student union, so now what? when someone starts to shoot back, how could you tell who is the gunman? My point is, if guns are allows on campus, it would create more chaos, more injuries to innocent students,(firing a gun accurately isn't as easy as the video games you play you know. an average guy would probably miss most of his shots if his target is more than 20 feet away) and also mass confusion when police arrives.

As a college student, I would hate to think that the kid next to me could be carrying a concealed weapon. The thought that at any minute, someone could start firing in lecture is terrifying.

This incidence is another expression of police's failure to protect citizens. I was chased in the middle of Washington DC by two guys with hand guns in August 2005. I called police and they did not even show up after 45 minutes. Since then I am a believer of rights to bear arms. I support students should be allowed to carry guns.

Actually, there have been shootings at police stations. As for all the if they had been armed crap, would they have been able to hit the gunman without injuring others, would htey make sure they weren't mistaken for another gunman, would their bullets pierce a bulletproof vest?

When guns are criminalized only criminals carry guns. Never was that more apparent than today at Virginia Tech. There can be no doubt that if people who'd passed the rigorous background check necessary to carry a concealed weapon were carrying this fateful day that that murderous coward would have either thought twice about it or would have been shot down quickly. Virginia Tech has a cadet squad - why didn't any of them or someone else with a warrior's heart take this guy on with what they had? Wake up, America. This is a dangerous world and wishing it wasn't so only gets you killed.

It is ridiculous to claim that students with gun will guarntee the safety of campus.
Think about this " can a killer with a knife kill 30 person faster than with a full-loaded pistol?"
where the gun goes, where the tragedy goes.
Good guy doesn't get more safety from gun, bad guy does hurt more
person with gun!!!!

I just want to say Wayne is a true patriot and American and would have saved many lives if he would have been there he is a good guy, all you superlibs need to step back and look at the real picture. If CCW was allowed on campus this fateful day would have been alot less painful than it is. Please pray for the families and remember guns dont kill people, criminals do.

I am a '99 graduate from Virginia Tech, I also live 6 miles from Campus. I believe 100% that if the students who had valid concealed weapon permits, this story might have a different ending.

Criminals, thugs and monsters such as the one today, prefer unarmed victims. This is why I have been a concealed permit holder now for 9 years.

God bless the Hokies......

Sad that the gunman was the only person armed at VT.

I can't believe this would have been as tragic a loss of life, had the students been able to defend themselves, and not be executed, like fish in a barrel.

I'm not afraid of law abiding citizens carrying firearms, I AM afraid when you take the guns away from the law abiding, you are left with a society where only the criminals are armed.

Poor guy!!! He's done nothing wrong, but now gets all these trouble. He can sue the initial news reports libel if he want to.

Another source said the shooter was a F1 student. Which is not likely because F1 students in recent 2 years must give their fingerprints, which the police cannot find with this shooter.

Also, the name "Wayne Chiang" is just not a F1 student. Nor can a F1 student afford to collect guns.

The issue here isn't so much whether guns on campus would have helped, as it is how many people put two and two (and two, and two, and two) together when they shouldn't have. He didn't do it, and whatever you think of his gun control ideas, isn't it scary how quickly he was convicted in the minds of the internet and the cable news networks?

What are you talking about, Pete?

Gun control, whenever implimented, has almost universally led to an increase, not a decrease, in violent crime.

The government cannot protect everyone on an individual level. Frankly, you're an idiot if you "feel sorry for us" who have more sense than to want to be made defenseless.

NGO: Eh, when was the last campus shooting in England or Australia?