> 0n (26 Apr 07) LEE LOFASO wrote to CINDY HAGLUND...
>> Hello Cindy,
>> >MS>Well, though... once more America proved to us that their country
>> is >MS>not really safer with all those people having weapons. Just
>> sad.
>> Very.
>> Headline in an Australian newspaper after the VT massacre -
>> "America, the gun club"
> Yeah  :(
> Cindy

The Australians had a buy-out program a few years ago after a similar shooting.
 It was a case of "We'll give you market value for every semi-automatic
rifle/shotgun/handgun (and a few other types of firearms)."  When it
was over, someone did a lot of figuring, using the records that had been
kept since 1920 and deduced that the government might have removed as much
as 10% of the firearms from the country.  Now, given that the guy that shot
up Virginia Tech was suicidal, I have to wonder if he would have planned
his attack on a segment of the population hwere he might find as few as 50%
of the people, or as much as 100%, armed and willing to shoot back.

No, he wouldn't.  He wanted to become a historic event but he'd have been
killed after the first shot and branded just another nutcase wanna-be
murderer, not a successful serial killer.

A twist on "fame and notoriety", hm?


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