A terrible, terrible tragedy.

[kandrathe]

So you agree you can't see beforehand if someone is going to use a gun for bad purposes?

Anyway, if you consider Holland as a tyranical state because we can't buy guns, I guess you are the one with the twisted worldview. Averageday Holland is safer than average US.

The weapon idea is the same thing happening with those massive SUVs. People (apart from having small male organs :D) buy them because they are supposed to be safer then normal cars.....especially when you are in them. But of course when everybody drives an SUV the advantage is gone....so what next? Everybody goes around in a tank? Anyway at the same time the death toll among cyclist and pedestrians rise, because you absolutely don't stand a chance when you are hit buy a 2000 kg car going 50 km/h (that is a 453683sqp/inch floz car going 363.474Mpfeetgallon per second squared). Bringing more deadly things in a society will never yield less victims. But because everybody thinks he himself is a good shot or he himself will never use a gun 'just like that' everybody things he buys safety.....this survival of the fittest is of course highly questionable.

Ok, SUV's... Nope, not going there.

VaTech... Yes, it turns out that this guy was identified and committed to a mental treatment center 16 months ago, being determined by authorities to be a danger to himself and others. And, somehow he was released... Geez, how could that have happened? The nanny state failed to protect the society from a known and dangerous psychopath. It took some example cases of heinous recidivism (e.g. a series of high profile pedophile/rapists/murderer's being released and within months racking up body counts) here in my State before the legislature implemented the possibility of lifetime commitment for the dangerously insane.

The lesson learned from VaTech... Psychopaths are bad for society. Ban psychopaths now.