Well, I am creating this post, after looking at the news reports and videos about the recent Virginia Tech shootings. News is flooded about the South Korean guy (Cho) who was a student at Virginia Tech. When asked about Cho, his fellow students, and roommates described him as a loner, a wierd guy, who hardly talked. Some said he was depressed.
Why is anyone not talking about the store or the person who sold him the guns and cartridges? In my opinion, that store person who sold him these ammunitions is to be blamed too. Couldn't he figure out to whom he was selling the guns? The ease with which anyone can own guns in the US is what freeks me out!
People in the US have been talking about the terrorist attacks since a long time now, sending soldiers to war to keep the nation safe. Is the nation really safe? This is not the first time such a shooting incident has happened ... there have been two such similar cases in the US before, this one being the deadliest. I guess, it is time, the congress really think of making the rules/regulations on owning or having acess to guns more stringent, to have a safer US.
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Priya, I thought I heard in Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine documentary that Canada has roughly the same number of guns per capita as the United States. However, the number of violent deaths caused by these fire arms is significantly (if I remember correctly, almost about 100 times) smaller. In light of this information how would you justify your claim that stricter regulations will solve the problem?
Well in Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine documentary, he also mentions that people in Canada don't lock their doors either, inspite of the fact that people do posses guns. I think Canada is culturally different from US. In the US, there is a wide barrier between the rich and the poor, which is why there is so much segregation among people. Being a super power comes with a cost!
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