Comments on: Gunman's Background Check Came Back Clean

Gun Shop Owner Who Sold Cho Handgun Describes Transaction

[plainjean]

Seems to me I remember a Amish community in Pennsylvania that was recently victimized by a psychopatic killer with a gun. And the Amish response: they did not run out to their local gunshop and arm themselves; instead, they quietly preached forgiveness and went about their lives as if nothing had happened. How many people in America say they are Christian and believe in God, yet when it comes to having faith that their powerful, all-knowing God will protect them from evil they turn to the gun when their faith is tested.

And we know how the National Rifle Association is going to respond to the Virginia Tech tragedy: GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE AND STIFFER LAWS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT.
That's a tough act with Cho Seung-Hui the shooter a suicide which is what often happens in these cases. Cho would have had little luck if he had been armed with, a screw driver, a can opener, or a cork-screw.

What ever happened to the Brady Bill and the ban on assault weapons? A SEVEN DAY WAITING PERIOD ISN'T TOO MUCH TO ASK A LAW ABIDDING CITIZEN TO WAIT TO PURCHASE A HANDGUN. Somehow I can't help believing 32 innocent Virginians would be alive today were it not for a group of insecure people who ignored what the Brady Bill, in this case, should have prevented. Remember those Pennsyvania Amish victims? "OH YE OF LITTLE FAITH!"

[steveger3]

All you gun nuts out there need to send more money to the NRA. All you nice gun control folks don't need to send any more money to the Brady people as CBS has taken over the job.

[quityercryin]

..."Tell me how you are going to mass murder any amount of people by say 100 yards with a knife pitchfork or a rope...."

Hey wasnt that done with fertilizer...let's do background checks for fertilizer purchases, yea! that works!

When a drunk driver kills someone, do they go looking for the owner of the liquor store to interview them and see if the drunk driver looked "nervous" when he/she was purchasing the alcohol??
Gimme a break, puleezzeee...

[steveger3]

I love it! It's the NRA's fault. It's the gun lovers fault. Ahh let's see. The guy's on meds.Teacher bans him from her class because he's nuts and she's afraid of him. He's getting his meds from some doctor. I guess I don't understand why he wasen't reported to the law as a danger. Oh I forgot. We might violate his rights. Yes, I agree we need more gun control laws. 26,000 aren't enough. We need more. Many more.OR we could just put the crook in jail for life. Use a gun, you don't get past go. BUT we have these liberal judges, social workers and lawyers that pat them on the but and send them back on the street.

[quityercryin]

..."Tell me how you are going to mass murder any amount of people by say 100 yards with a knife pitchfork or a rope...."

Hey wasnt that done with fertilizer...let's do background checks for fertilizer purchases, yea! that works!

When a drunk driver kills someone, do they go looking for the owner of the liquor store to interview them and see if the drunk driver looked "nervous" when he/she was purchasing the alcohol??
Gimme a break, puleezzeee...

[quityercryin]

..."Tell me how you are going to mass murder any amount of people by say 100 yards with a knife pitchfork or a rope...."

Hey wasnt that done with fertilizer...let's do background checks for fertilizer purchases, yea! that works!

When a drunk driver kills someone, do they go looking for the owner of the liquor store to interview them and see if the drunk driver looked "nervous" when he/she was purchasing the alcohol??
Gimme a break, puleezzeee...

[jjreding-2009]

If this animal had 2 previous stalking incidents AND had been in a mental health care centre, I wonder how that information didn't make it in. I think that the background check information needs to be much more thorough. But the NRA is against that. It's time for the gun control laws to be given teeth.

[stevex47]

blazercoach1,
"It depends on your aim and intent."

Tell me how you are going to mass murder any amount of people by say 100 yards with a knife pitchfork or a rope.

[stevex47]

His mental health history didn't set off any alarms in the gun purchase?

[bizzzz-2009]

The whole "no one is to blame" mentality is a symptom of a society's fear of hurting someone's feelings when they confront them on the fact they blew it.
People in this country hate confrontation. Some people might say "there was no way we could have predicted or prevented this from happening..."
REALLY? 33 people dead at the hands of one person...over the span of several hours...with shootings hours apart from each other? I find that hard believe.
I see Charles Steger, the President of Virgina Tech, got a standing ovation yesterday. Why? I don't think anyone should get a standing ovation before an investigation in complete.
You watch, more standing ovations will be given, time will pass, and nothing will be done about it. Just like the levees in New Orleans, waiting for another hurricane.