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2007-04-20 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Frank G 2007-04-20 15:54|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fred reads the 'burg!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-04-20 16:03|| 2007-04-20 16:03|| Front Page Top

#2 "Whenever I've seen one of those "Gun-free Zone" signs, especially outside of a school filled with our youngest and most vulnerable citizens, I've always wondered exactly who these signs are directed at. Obviously, they don't mean much to the sort of man who murdered 32 people just a few days ago."

They obviously are directed precisely at "the sort of man who murdered 32 people just a few days ago."

They're telling him where his easiest targets are. Courtesy of the government.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-04-20 17:36|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-04-20 17:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Gun-Free Zones are only that to delusional people. The Virginia Tech administration needs to be taken to task and fired for their totally failed policy that cost 32 decent young people their lives.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-04-20 18:06|| 2007-04-20 18:06|| Front Page Top

#4 It was citizens going to the trunk of their cars, grabbing their hunting rifles, and firing back that prevented Charles Whitman from killing a lot more people.

When I went to university, students drove drove on campus with hunting rifles and shotguns displayed on window racks. Even more kept them locked in the trunk of their cars as we were not supposed to have them in dorm rooms. Never a campus shooting, though quite a few small (and some not so small) bombs went off in the quad during finals. Different era, different set of concerns.

As an aside, during autopsy it was learned Whitman had a brain tumor. I wounder if anything similar will be found with Cho.

Posted by ed 2007-04-20 18:19|| 2007-04-20 18:19|| Front Page Top

#5 UT is now a "gun-free" zone, at least for the non-criminals.

Posted by Brett 2007-04-20 18:31|| 2007-04-20 18:31|| Front Page Top

#6 "Gun Free Zone" means Hunting Preserve.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2007-04-20 21:48|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-04-20 21:48|| Front Page Top

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