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Dimensio0 Donating Member (381 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-06-08 12:19 PM
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47. You are still not arguing with facts.
VA Tech shows that - the shooter shouldn't have had access to a firearm, but somehow managed to slip through they system and get one anyway. He qualified as delusional too, and still qualified to have a firearm.


Actually, Cho did not "qualify" to purchase a handgun. Virginia's laws did not allow for a comprehensive enough check to determine this. Federal law has been passed to rectify this situation.

The VA Tech Massacre, however, was not purely hypothetical. It was an event of a spree killing, and such events had occured prior to the incident. They had occured in different places, and sometimes with different tools, but "spree killing" was not a purely hypothetical occurence before Cho went on his shooting spree.

Essentially, your argument is appealing to what you fear may happen, even though you readily admit that it has not happened. However, unless you can show that your fears are actually justified, your suggestion that concealed carry should not be allowed at all has no merit. Your lack of comfort does not alter the fact that thus far the scenarios that you have described have not occured. On the other hand, I can readily cite stories of citizens with concealed carry permits have stopped crimes in progress, as can others.
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