Shooting Tragedy At Virginia Tech: A Solution Part 2

As the first of many funeral services and memorial services are held to honor those killed in the massacre that took place last week on the quiet campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia ,we once again make a case for gun laws to prohibit the sales of assault weapons. As you may recall 33 people were murdereed when a student began firing randomly at students and teachers to settle a score for reasons known only to him. We belive no greater tribute can be made to those who died than to modify the gun laws in order to prevent the repetition of this kind of incident.

We were upbraided by one reader who thinkss, as does the president, that during this "sad time" it is improper to discuss revising the legislation to protect our citizens. If we as a nation are not discussing the necessary change in legislation to protect our citizens from needless violence from assault weapons when this kind of abhorrent activity takes place, we want to know when it is appropriate to discuss such changes in the gun laws? It is timely and more than appropriate to speak of these things when there is an incident so indelibly etched in the minds of all the people.

Some of you do not consider the weapon used in last Monday's incident an assault weapon. We say you are just quibbling over semantics. The gun used in the shootings provided far more firepower than one should need outside of a combat zone. We say the sales of such firearms should be banned.

We noted the only place we've observed such mayhem, disruption and large numbers of people killed at one time is places obviously involved in conflict. WAR. Daily battles. We do not know of any declared or undeclared wars on the American citizens in the United States; unless, of course you are considering the incident which took place on September 11, 2001 in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. We are not sure if the attacker in that case is domestic or foreign. What we do know is that many people are caught in the grip of fear. Much of the fear can be omitted by simply changing the gun laws to prohibit the sale of assault weapons. The remainder of the fear can be alleviated by impeaching George Bush and his band of political thugs....ah we can only hope.

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