11 Thoughts to “We are Virginia Tech–4th Anniversary”

  1. Moon-howler
    April 16, 2011 at 1:00 am

    The lone voice or two in the crowd–Let’s go Hokies– after Giovanni finishes, will forever haunt me.

    I don’t recall people being critical of the crowd after this tragedy.

  2. Moon-howler
    April 16, 2011 at 9:37 am

    What positive has happened since VA Tech Massacre?
    http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/283546

    Links to the Gov. Kaine speech and President Bush’s speech have been included in the post.

  3. Elena
    April 16, 2011 at 11:43 am

    What do Jared Laughner and Cho have in common? Mental illness. And HOW were they able to buy guns, I really don’t get.

  4. cargosquid
    April 16, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    Elena, they were able to buy guns because the respective authorities did not lock them up when evidence of their instability and danger to others became obvious. Because those authorities failed to do so, their background checks were clean.

  5. Moon-howler
    April 16, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    You can’t lock people up just because they are nuts. (I am sorry to say.)

    The court orders need to be recorded.

    Sadly, everyone thinks they are sane. How many people think, hells, bells, Mabel, I am crazier than a bucket of batsh!t. Don’t let me buy a gun.

    That is compounded by the fact that the rest of us don’t know who is crazy and who isn’t.

  6. cargosquid
    April 16, 2011 at 2:12 pm

    The voices in my head keep telling me that I’m perfectly fine.

    And me.

    And me, too.

    However, I’m not ok. Those voice keep speaking to me in German….

    And I think those other people might be lyin………

    But not me. I’M PErfEctly FinE……..

    😈

  7. Moon-howler
    April 16, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    Is there a tune to that?

  8. cargosquid
    April 16, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    @Moon-howler
    You’d think there would be, wouldn’t you…. I can ALMOST hear it…..

    🙂

  9. Moon-howler
    April 17, 2011 at 6:17 am

    Roanoke.com

    Cho, it turned out, had been court-ordered to receive outpatient mental treatment. That made it illegal for him to have a gun. But at the time, only commitments to mental hospitals were included in the database used to screen potential gun buyers.

    After Cho slipped through a crack in the system and went on to commit the largest mass shooting in modern U.S history, Virginia rushed to change its law to add outpatient commitments to the database.

    Four years later, the number of mentally ill people stopped from buying a gun has nearly doubled.

    The background checks blocked 215 transactions last year, compared with 109 the year of the shootings, according to figures compiled by Virginia State Police. And the database has grown by 63 percent, to 145,728 mental health records at the end of last year

  10. Moon-howler
    April 17, 2011 at 6:21 am

    The above quote from the Roanoke times is an example of sensible gun laws. One might also say it is a good example of what needs to be done for public safety. Did the NRA oppose that law also? I don’t know.

  11. cargosquid
    April 19, 2011 at 11:09 am

    @Moon-howler
    Nope.
    The NRA actually supported the NICS background check.

    Now if we could just set it up so that ANYONE can use it.

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