Sparky

yea, i mean apparently he did it all because his girlfriend dumped his ass.
how ****ing bad is the security at vt? 32 people killed, and dozens more injured before he killed himself correct?

sleepy jack

I've read like three stories on it and havn't heard a thing about him doing it because his girlfriend dumped him. Its been mentioned alot he was pretty disturbed and messed up.

And its not like he ran around the whole building killing people, while security guards sat behind and watched it on the video cameras. He killed two people in one area (they think it was him) then two hours later went to the fourth floor and shot a bunch of people as well as chained some doors and shit.

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DontRunMeOver

Looking at different news reports, the matter of being dumped doesn't seem so relevant (do people believe this guy had a girlfriend who was anything other than imaginary?). What seemed to be the main factors in this were.

1. He was crazy.
2. He was able to buy many guns and lots of ammo.
3. Despite being crazy.

In the UK you get reports of somebody who was nuts but wasn't locked away, going on a violent spree in which their able to get hold of a knife, they kill some old man with it and stab some random girl in the arm before other passers by wade in and kick the **** out of the guy. This is a lot more difficult when you're dealing with guns.

The whole "right to bear arms" as a form of self-defense is stupid, because that assumes that you are going to carry the gun with you at all times and more importantly it assumes that if somebody else comes at you with a gun that your own gun will somehow help you to dodge their bullet. Guns are generally are much more useful for killing people than they are for defending yourself from being killed.

If people were really just interested in protecting themselves, how come you don't see more people wearing helmets and chainmail and carrying shields around? Those things can defend you from bullets. Guns can't.

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