>>>>Did the fact that VT is a gun free environment save anybody's life?
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>>>It's not a gun free environment. Who told you that? It's only a gun free environment if there are checks and methods to make sure it's gun free.
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>>>Wishing doesn't make it so.
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>>That's exactly my point. Having laws and restriction can't do much in an open society.
>>As soon as they start to enforce some of these restrictions what happens?
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>If they'd had metal detectors etc at the school, he'd have been detected long before he started firing.
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>Like I said, it's only a gun free environment if you make sure it is.

How many check point can you erect on a big campus like VT or even on a bigger campus like UCLA or Texas? How about at high schools? Where's the money?

Nah. If I was determined to kill indiscriminatly, a defensely security guards and people that are in line to be screened at a check point is good a place as any to start shooting.