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Tragedy on Virginia Tech Campus - 32 Killed
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From
17/04/2007 10:13:41
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
 
To
17/04/2007 10:11:39
Metin Emre
Ozcom Bilgisayar Ltd.
Istanbul, Turkey
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Thread ID:
01216376
Message ID:
01216738
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>>>>>In Turkey you have to prove you're under a thread for have a gun.
>>>>
>>>>I'm not sure what that statement means.
>>>
>>>I think he means "threatened".
>>
>>I still don't understand what he means. Does he mean they make sure the customer is not a thread? If that is what he meant, how do they determine that? How do you know if Joe Normal buys a gun today, that he isn't going to catch his wife with another man tomorrow, snaps, and becomes a monster with a gun?
>
>Sorry my bad english. I'll try with samples:
>
>Sample 1:
>You're a jeweller. You can buy gun. You should put it in your shop. You cannot carry out it from your shop. Because only your shop is a dangerious place for you.
>
>Sample 2:
>You're a businessman and you have a lot of money. If judge approves You can carry a gun.
>
>Sample 3:
>You have enemies because of vendetta, or you're a newspaper writer you're getting thread letters. If judge approves You can carry a gun.
>
>
>"...that he isn't going to catch his wife with another man tomorrow, snaps, and becomes a monster with a gun?"
>
>That's possible. It seem but it's a better solution from your.
>
>33 kids killed. Possible it was a automatic gun. In Turkey you cannot have automatic gun in any cases. Only army has automatic-guns in there...
>
>Gun merchands are playing with you. Don't come theirs game...

It was not an automatic gun. It was a handgun and a rifle last I read.

I can't tell for sure, but it feels like you are trying to blame this on the American culture because the dude had a gun.
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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