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New bill consistent, sound policy
By:Unknown
Posted: 5/7/07
Following the Virginia Tech incident, governments have examined many of the legal practices for the sale of firearms. Some of the proposals have come under attack by gun advocacy…
By:Unknown
Posted: 5/7/07
Following the Virginia Tech incident, governments have examined many of the legal practices for the sale of firearms. Some of the proposals have come under attack by gun advocacy…
Tags: gun control, gun policy, nra, ohio state university
The Altar of the Gun
Note: I found writing this piece to be a way of channeling my own anger at the massacre this morning. But I recognize that anger is only one part of the grief process. Please join me in praying for the families and friends of those…
Tags: blog, gun control, guns
Virginia Tech massacre an unbelievably sad event
Friday, April 20, 2007 - The China Post
A total of 32 people were killed Monday in a Virginia Tech campus building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. The gunman, a student from South Korea, took down his victims in two…
A total of 32 people were killed Monday in a Virginia Tech campus building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. The gunman, a student from South Korea, took down his victims in two…
Letters to the editor - April 20, 2007
By:Paul Morrow
Posted: 4/20/07
As details regarding Monday's tragic shooting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute continue to emerge, and in particular, information concerning the of the shooter, Cho Seung-Hui, I want to urge all Miami…
Posted: 4/20/07
As details regarding Monday's tragic shooting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute continue to emerge, and in particular, information concerning the of the shooter, Cho Seung-Hui, I want to urge all Miami…
Tags: blame, gun control, hatred, miami university
VT Students turn to God
Dr. Roger Passman
April 18, 2007
Reporting for Reuters, Andrea Hopkins writes:
By all accounts, the prayers started even before the gunshots stopped at Virginia Tech university, and the pleas to God from grief-stricken survivors of the massacre…
April 18, 2007
Reporting for Reuters, Andrea Hopkins writes:
By all accounts, the prayers started even before the gunshots stopped at Virginia Tech university, and the pleas to God from grief-stricken survivors of the massacre…
Tags: blog, commentary, god, gun control, guns, politics, religion
Lodge: Cho's choice: Murder
By Richard Lodge/Daily News staff
GHS
Fri Apr 20, 2007, 12:20 AM EDT
The debate over gun control in the wake of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech had already reached the presidential campaign trial by midweek, and it's sure to surface…
GHS
Fri Apr 20, 2007, 12:20 AM EDT
The debate over gun control in the wake of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech had already reached the presidential campaign trial by midweek, and it's sure to surface…
P.I.D. Radio 4/22/07: 23, 33, 2121
16 kpbs MP3 6.9 MB
April 22, 2007
What more can be said about the shootings that left 33 dead at Virginia Tech last Monday? About 42 minutes' worth, apparently. We ask questions about a few details that bother us about the tragedy, which…
April 22, 2007
What more can be said about the shootings that left 33 dead at Virginia Tech last Monday? About 42 minutes' worth, apparently. We ask questions about a few details that bother us about the tragedy, which…
Tags: cho, gun control, podcast, radio
Gun-control debate rages on
The following is a short piece by myself, published in the Irish Sunday Business Post.
~NiK
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http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2007/04/22/story22922.asp
Gun-control debate rages on
22 April 2007
By Nicholas…
~NiK
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http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2007/04/22/story22922.asp
Gun-control debate rages on
22 April 2007
By Nicholas…
Tags: gun control, international, ireland, irish, reaction
On Virginia Tech anniversary, Saugus mom lobbies for changes
By Mike Gaffney
GateHouse News Service
Posted Apr 16, 2008 @ 01:37 PM
SAUGUS —
A year after she lost her son Ross in the Virginia Tech shootings, Lynnette Alameddine is fighting for legislation that would require universities to issue…
GateHouse News Service
Posted Apr 16, 2008 @ 01:37 PM
SAUGUS —
A year after she lost her son Ross in the Virginia Tech shootings, Lynnette Alameddine is fighting for legislation that would require universities to issue…
Virginia Tech
Anyone who is not living an incredibly secluded life (if you are, can I join you there?) has probably heard about the tragedy at Virginia Tech. where a gunman killed some 33 people, including himself. I've struggled whether to weigh in on this or…
Tags: grief, gun control, lobbyists, mourning, news media, prayer
Threats to Civil Liberties arising from the fallout of the Virginia Tech Forcible-disarmament Frenzy
May 1, 2007 4:51 pm
An article from a new contributor:
Loren Bliss
THERE ARE TWO EXCEPTIONALLY grave dangers to American liberty arising from the present, post-Virginia-Tech forcible-disarmament frenzy. These are:
(1)-The criminalization of…
An article from a new contributor:
Loren Bliss
THERE ARE TWO EXCEPTIONALLY grave dangers to American liberty arising from the present, post-Virginia-Tech forcible-disarmament frenzy. These are:
(1)-The criminalization of…
Gun control won't work in U.S.
By: KONRAD KLINKNER
Columnist
Posted: 4/23/07
The intricacies of the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech are proving to be very enduring media fodder, with NBC lapping up Cho's media package and the investigations probing deeper and deeper into…
Columnist
Posted: 4/23/07
The intricacies of the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech are proving to be very enduring media fodder, with NBC lapping up Cho's media package and the investigations probing deeper and deeper into…
The tragedy of Virginia Tech is partly a tragedy of bureaucracy
From the Editor
May/June 2007
by Kathrin Day Lassila '81
The tragedy of Virginia Tech is partly a tragedy of bureaucracy.
I don't mean the sort of complaint people usually make about bureaucracy -- too much paperwork and red tape. I…
May/June 2007
by Kathrin Day Lassila '81
The tragedy of Virginia Tech is partly a tragedy of bureaucracy.
I don't mean the sort of complaint people usually make about bureaucracy -- too much paperwork and red tape. I…
Tags: bureaucracy, gun control, mental illness, privacy
Gun licenses safe choice
By: Karl Spaulding
Posted: 5/7/07
When Florida liberalized its restrictive and disjointed system of concealed carry laws in 1987, many states followed suit. In each case, naysayers predicted everything from "blood in the streets" to "parking lot…
Posted: 5/7/07
When Florida liberalized its restrictive and disjointed system of concealed carry laws in 1987, many states followed suit. In each case, naysayers predicted everything from "blood in the streets" to "parking lot…
One more rampage, same weapon of choice
By Judy Polumbaum
Updated: 2007-04-19 07:10
Details of the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus on Monday have unfolded to confirm that the gunman was a US resident originally from South Korea. He is Cho Seung-hui, who killed 32 people and then…
Updated: 2007-04-19 07:10
Details of the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus on Monday have unfolded to confirm that the gunman was a US resident originally from South Korea. He is Cho Seung-hui, who killed 32 people and then…
VT Massacre: Could it Happen at Hampden-Sydney???
Submitted by JohnMaxfield on Tue, 04/17/2007 - 7:30am.
Would this have happened at a school like Hampden-Sydney? That is the question.
And the answer must be dealt with delicately, in the aftermath of such a horrendous massacre that hopefully…
Would this have happened at a school like Hampden-Sydney? That is the question.
And the answer must be dealt with delicately, in the aftermath of such a horrendous massacre that hopefully…
Tags: blog, commentary, gun control, hampdensydney
Shooting proves need for gun control laws
By: Joe Bialek
Posted: 5/2/07
The shooting crisis at Virginia Tech has once again sparked the debate about gun control. The second amendment of the United States Constitution states: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a…
Posted: 5/2/07
The shooting crisis at Virginia Tech has once again sparked the debate about gun control. The second amendment of the United States Constitution states: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a…
Virginia Tech: It's Not About Gun Control, and You're a Fool or a Monster If You Say It Is
Apr. 18th, 2007 at 12:02 AM
Virginia is, if memory serves, one of the states that had a particularly malevolently horrible 2004 national election, one marked by substantial Republican chicanery and vicious suppression of the minority vote, so the…
Virginia is, if memory serves, one of the states that had a particularly malevolently horrible 2004 national election, one marked by substantial Republican chicanery and vicious suppression of the minority vote, so the…
Tags: blog, commentary, gun control, politics
Defenseless Victim Zones
Harold X. O'Boyle / The Extremist (Blog)
May 03, 2007
Mass murder invariably gets the Victim Disarmament Lobby into a lather promoting safety through helplessness. The Virginia Tech shooting is no exception. A brief but honest look at how…
May 03, 2007
Mass murder invariably gets the Victim Disarmament Lobby into a lather promoting safety through helplessness. The Virginia Tech shooting is no exception. A brief but honest look at how…
Tags: blog, commentary, gun control
Gun Control Back on the Agenda
By Guo Qiang (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2007-04-18 15:27
The world was shaken by the news that a 23-year-old South Korean killed 32 students at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
The bloody massacre began at…
Updated: 2007-04-18 15:27
The world was shaken by the news that a 23-year-old South Korean killed 32 students at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
The bloody massacre began at…
Tags: gun control, gun regulation, shooting