Although it is nearly universally accepted that there are individuals who are mentally burdened, the murdered remain murdered, and the tortured tortured, so I am totally lacking in sympathy for the perpetrators. We are far beyond the era when we should be defending the evil, and those who promote or perpetrate it on innocents. Someome has to be responsiible, and held to account. There have to be consequences other than those suffered by victims. If you want to make excuses for criminal's hate filled evil, then you step up and assume responsibility for their acts of hatred. It will not undo the harm done, but it will help establish some semblance of justice.
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The Virginia Tech shootings provoke cries for draconian gun control laws enlisting wisdom from bureaucrats and politicians comparable to those... [MORE]
Nolan Nelson
Apr 21, 2007 21:22
You all are missing the point here. This is what happens when you try to limit who can own a... [MORE]
Jack Modena
Apr 29, 2007 18:01
Every time an atrocity of this nature occurs, somehow we as a nation seem to forget the loss of X... [MORE]
A Troubled American
Apr 18, 2007 18:07
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Garrett
Apr 18, 2007 13:51
To Ciancaglini,Garrett,Saterlee. You are living in a dream world if you thing any kind of a law would have stopped... [MORE]
Rogers Marshall
Apr 18, 2007 18:23
There is no sanity in the 'Insanity of Gun Obsession' response. The point this person misses, and most people who... [MORE]
CR Mountjoy
Apr 17, 2007 17:46
Some of what I am reading about Cho today suggest he was crazy not evil. There is a difference.
Unfortunately, from... [MORE]
obera
Apr 17, 2007 14:49
I find the editorial's labeling of the culprit as "evil" rather unhelpful. Certainly his acts could be labelled as evil.... [MORE]
Guy B. Jones
Apr 17, 2007 14:20
Hey, 9-11 was the biggest mass slaughter in our history...No guns were involved. [MORE]
Edmond J. Gruenenfelder
Apr 19, 2007 12:26
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George Rivera
Apr 23, 2007 20:18
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Doreen Ciancaglini
Apr 17, 2007 14:13
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A.L.
Apr 17, 2007 13:50
If it had been a tornado in VA, they would have found a way to warn the students.
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Jay Larson
Apr 17, 2007 11:59
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dan mckeown
Apr 30, 2007 05:30
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Don Satterlee
Apr 17, 2007 11:25
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David Eisenberg
Apr 18, 2007 12:09
>>The Second Amendment was never intended to arm violently disposed people with modern mass killing machines.
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