>but the point is there are good guys and bad guys. when bad guys have guns it is nice if there is a good guy with a gun and the skill to use it effectively. No one advocates 'blazing away' but guns are not mystical. The shoot where you point them, much as code does what you say. And there is a skill level involved in employing them correctly. One good guy, one firearm, one shot could have ended this tragedy much sooner. The hysterical image of all the students pulling guns and suddenly randomly blazing away doesn't really negate the arguement that the problem is not guns - it is bad guys having guns when there is not a properly trained and armed deterent.


May be. But also you have to look at a decaying society where these things happen. Compare that with other countries (most of Europe, Asia, South America). Compare that with our country in the 50s and 60s.

We have a culture of violence where kids are fed it through TV, movies and games. I played cops and robbers, cowboys and injuns as all kids did at the time (50s 60s, and before). Did these things happen? Only now, only here (almost as there are very few exceptions; let's not count Iraq into this as it is a leeetle different scenario).

There are a bunch of mentally sick people out there with easy access to guns. Things like this are to be expected. It wasn't the first. I won't be the last. The ante has been upped (with special thanks to NBC for their help in upping it). Maybe we should've read the 2nd Ammendment for what it says years ago. May be to latte by now. Too many people misread it and took it to heart.