I'm absolutely horrified by this type of thing. Yeah - I just love
people carrying guns right now. I have a nephew who is a senior
engineering student who's about to graduate. He's safe thank goodness,
but so many young people are dead. The whole thing makes me really hate
the "everyone have a gun" opinion.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

In article ,
Janet Boss wrote:
The whole thing makes me really hate
the "everyone have a gun" opinion.

It's an unimaginable tragedy. So much loss. It makes me
think that this is not a good time to discuss guns and gun
politics - it would be wrong to try to score political
points off this, at least for the time being.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

in thread : Janet Boss
whittled the following words:

I'm absolutely horrified by this type of thing. Yeah - I just love
people carrying guns right now. I have a nephew who is a senior
engineering student who's about to graduate. He's safe thank goodness,
but so many young people are dead. The whole thing makes me really hate
the "everyone have a gun" opinion.


Instead, everyone NOT owning a gun was yarded up like sheep and
slaughtered. I bet that student did NOT have a legal permit to carry nor
was legally carrying a gun on campus. Those who did have legal permits, I
imagine wished thay were illegally carrying during those two hours.

These shootings were TWO hours apart. Police protected the students, YES
M`AM! Very efficiently too.

In article ,
(Melinda Shore) wrote:

it would be wrong to try to score political
points off this, at least for the time being.

I'll agree with that. There is no good answer to this type of lunatic.
The whole thing is just such a waste. We're going to graduation in just
a few weeks, and I know it will be a very somber occasion, particularly
for the engineering dept ceremony.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

In article ,
diddy wrote:

YES
M`AM!

FO Diddy - I really think I need to block you for now.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:54:40 GMT, Janet Boss
wrote:

I'm absolutely horrified by this type of thing. Yeah - I just love
people carrying guns right now. I have a nephew who is a senior
engineering student who's about to graduate. He's safe thank
goodness, but so many young people are dead. The whole thing makes me
really hate the "everyone have a gun" opinion.

I spent a great many years at Virginia Tech. I got two engineering
degrees there, got married there, and started my family while I was in
graduate school there. I have a lot of friends who still live there and
friends who have children attending, as well as friends who teach at the
university. I'm afraid to start making phone calls.

I have always been shocked and disappointed by how easy it is for people
to get guns. Depending on the state where you live, you might just have
to show your driver's license, sign a statement saying you are sane,
they make 1 phone call, and 5 minutes later you can walk out with any
gun or guns you want, from small revolvers to assault rifles. That's
how it is in Kentucky. I believe that restrictions on gun purchases
would at least keep guns out of the hands of many people who shouldn't
have them but who aren't street saavy enough to obtain them illegally.
But the gun lobby won't give in to reasonable restrictions, and this is
why I will NEVER have anything to do with the NRA, not even their Eddie
Eagle program.

Not everyone needs guns, and it certainly shouldn't be so easy to get
them. I wouldn't mind waiting several months and subjecting myself to
tests and an FBI background check before I could purchase a firearm.
WTF is so wrong with some friggen caution when it comes to selling
deadly weapons??

Everytime they flash video from my alma mater, my stomach ties in knots.
I can't imagine enduring what those kids endured today, nor can I
imagine having a child attending there during this tragedy. It's
horrifying.

--
Lynne

on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:57:33 GMT, (Melinda Shore) wrote:

It makes me
think that this is not a good time to discuss guns and gun
politics - it would be wrong to try to score political
points off this, at least for the time being.

I'm going to STFU about guns (for) now, too.

--
Lynne

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:54:40 -0400, Janet Boss wrote:

I'm absolutely horrified by this type of thing. Yeah - I just love
people carrying guns right now. I have a nephew who is a senior
engineering student who's about to graduate. He's safe thank goodness,
but so many young people are dead. The whole thing makes me really hate
the "everyone have a gun" opinion.

Maybe you're beginning to understand the anger, frustration, and outrage
that the gun rights community feels at something like this.

The government creates an area where any lunatic with a gun can
damned-near guarantee that he'll be the only one with a gun there. Tells
people they'll be safe, because there are no guns, and then does
damned-all to actually do anything about it.

I don't know why so many people have so hard a time understanding it. "No
guns" policies do not make people safer. No criminal, no lunatic, no
raving nutcase was ever stopped by a "no guns" sign.

--
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of
preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset
to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How
pathetic.
- Ted Nugent

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:54:40 -0400, Janet Boss
wrote:

I'm absolutely horrified by this type of thing. Yeah - I just love
people carrying guns right now.

Are you equally horrified regarding car drivers and car accidents?
Roughly the same number of humans have lost their life in just one
little state, e.g., Tennessee, in just the first two weeks of this
month, in car accidents.

http://www.state.tn.us/safety/dailyfatality.htm

One thing you won't see or hear about them is round the clock news
coverage, interviews with sobbing parents and friends, etc.

I have a nephew who is a senior
engineering student who's about to graduate. He's safe thank goodness,
but so many young people are dead.

Their deaths were tragic. Absolutely. But were they any more tragic
than the deaths in those Tennessee car accidents?

The whole thing makes me really hate
the "everyone have a gun" opinion.

That's because you're thinking irrationally. And emotionally.

Unless, of course, you also hate the "everyone gets to own a car"
opinion, too.

--
Handsome Jack Morrison

Run, Fred. Run.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...aylls.asp?pg=1

Dream on, Professor Hanson. Dream on.
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson041307.html

DC Marines To the Rescue! While commie pinko liberals **** their pants:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/0...ines_to_t.html

Members of "reality-based community" embrace their ignorance of biology and DNA!
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/222419.php

MIT Scientist:'Alarm over climate change is based on
ignorance of what is normal for weather and climate':
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997788/site/newsweek/

April currently tracking as coldest April in 113 years:
http://www.agweb.com/get_article.asp...36&src=gennews

Ouch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGU0bE4GKVY

Pelosi and the Peter Principle:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentar...20070411c.html

PBS Suppresses Documentary on Radical Islam! See no evil, hear no evil...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl...l _Islam&only

Democrats Demand Inquiry Into How They're Doing So Far! Heh.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node...nion_rss_daily

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:03:21 -0400, Janet Boss wrote:

In article ,
diddy wrote:

YES
M`AM!

FO Diddy - I really think I need to block you for now.

The last time there was a shooting at a college in Virginia, a couple of
students ran to their cars, grabbed their guns, and confronted the
shooter. Two people ended up dead, but things could have been far worse
had not these students violated school policy by keeping their guns in
their cars.

Intentionally creating areas in which people are vulnerable to attack, and
doing nothing of substance to protect them is, in my mind, criminal.

--
Any deity worthy of a graven image can cobble up a working universe
complete with fake fossils in under a week - hey, if you're not
omnipotent, there's no real point in being a god. But to start with a
big ball of elementary particles and end up with the duckbill platypus
without constant twiddling requires a degree of subtlety and the ability
to Think Things Through: exactly the qualities I'm looking for when I'm
shopping for a Supreme Being.
- Lee DeRaud