Gun Control After Virginia Tech Shooting

This is in response to this

"The recent massacre at Virginia Tech brings to the forefront once again that psychopaths show respect for neither the laws of the land nor the lives in innocent people.

"Virginia Tech has a no-gun policy, meaning that anyone who carrys a gun could get expelled. Were it not for this policy, it would have been possible for a person to legally carry a concealed handgun and to have intervened as this shooter wandered campus for hours at will, killing to his heart's content.

"Criminals do not obey laws; that is the very definition of a criminal. Banning the carrying of guns on a campus may give the impression of safety, but only self-defense actually guarantees safety. A person who obeys the law and carries a gun legally shouldn't be denied the fundamental right to defend life simply because he or she steps over a line onto university property."

Well...

1. Psychopaths are psychopaths. Carrying a gun and being a psychopath only seems to happen in America, where the guns are (to a Canadian, anyway. I know, there are guns in Canada, but, they don't find their way, often, into the hands of psychopaths).

2. "psychopaths show respect for neither the laws of the land nor the lives in innocent people." Thank you for the definition of psychopath. What does this have to do with guns? If you want to stop psychopaths from killing people, or disrespecting the laws of the land, find a way to not generate psychopaths. This, also, seems to happen more often in America. Or, at least, the America that makes celebrities of psychopaths.

3. "Were it to have occurred at any other university in Virginia, it would have been possible for a person to legally carry a concealed handgun and to have intervened..." How do you figure? You know -- for a fact, of course -- that a person carrying a legally registered handgun would have been in that building on that day, and would have found and killed said psychopath?

4. "... as this shooter wandered campus for hours at will, killing to his heart's content." Way I read the story, he killed two people in a dorm room, then, went to a specific building somewhere else on campus, then killed a lot of people there -- in that one place. VT was that scene from "Elephant" not "Happiness."

5. "Criminals do not obey laws; that is the very definition of a criminal." Did you look that one up? 'Cause I got a bunch of silly laws here that anyone can break: http://www.filecabi.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-4233.html

6. OK, say it with me now: ONLY in a world WITHOUT GUNS "self-defense [sometimes] actually guarantees [everyones temporary] safety." In a world with guns, people get killed or injured at the flick of a switch. 'Nuff Said.

7. "A person who obeys the law and carries a gun legally shouldn't be denied the fundamental right to defend life simply because he or she steps over a line onto university property." Actually that's the definition of private property. The university decided to ban guns from ITS campus, just like I decided to ban guns from MY house. Virginia Tech is a corporate entity within and bearing the name of the state, but it operates independently of the state. It is given money by the state, but can choose to, for the most part, prevent things like the massacre from happening BY banning guns.

8. Guns in the "right" hands CAN make a difference. The only thing a gun recognizes is the power of another gun. Maybe that is the problem.