Originally posted by Yeager
He did not commit any crimes or commited any actions that would have indicated he would use a gun in criminal activity
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yes terror, he was in perfectly fine shape to buy a gun wasn't he.
We will eventually lose the 2nd amendmant if we continue to accept these pathetic results.
Hind sight is easy to second guess. There has been no evidence presented that would have prevented him from legally purchasing. And I can see no way that anyone would have prevented him from purchasing.
He was "stalking" a couple girls.
He went to a mental facility to go over some "suicidal tendancies".
He wrote some "disturbing" papers in his english classes.
He "scared" some of his classmates.
He was never charged with a crime.
He was never adjudicated mentally unstable.
"Disturbing" papers are not that abnormal. See any horror film script.
"Scared" classmates... pretty hard to quantify...
It is extremely hard to stop an individual like this from commiting crimes like what happened at VT. A determined individual can do alot of damage if they have no fear of the consequences. And since there was no history of violent acts from this individual, how would the law predict he would plan and carry one out?
The Bill of Rights protects individual's rights, a determined individual can take advantage of those protections to commit all kinds of illegal activity. It's something that society has to be willing accept or, if society cannot accept it, individuals will have to be ready to forfeit some of those rights.
Terror