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Originally posted by Matt Holcomb
Jeff, you're absolutely correct; guns are not the problem, but easy access to them ensures that the body count will be significantly higher when a deeply disturbed person like Cho Seung-Hui finally cracks.
The Second Amendment must be debated with vigor by open minds in Congress.
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I was waiting for someone to bring up the 'easy access' falsehood.
Try this. Let's say, 20,000 students at VT. 25% are older than 21, the legal age to purchase a handgun.
That's 5000 students (barring other reasons) that could legally buy a handgun.
They had the same 'easy access' to firearms that Cho did.
...yet NONE of these 5000 people that had 'easy access' to firearms chose to murder innocent people.
Thus invalidating the 'easy access' argument.
(and to further turn it on it's head, I'd bet that dang near 100% of the people on the VT campus were older than 18 - the legal age to purchase any other firearm)