Robert Hairless
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Has anyone else noticed some of the ironies surrounding the date on which the Virginia Tech shootings took place?
On April 16, 2007, while Cho Seung-Hui was murdering people at Virginia Tech, the NRA had just concluded its 136th annual convention in St. Louis.
Virginia Tech is a "gun free zone." Thanks to its administration and the Virginia legislature, no one can have a gun on its campus legally except the police. In contrast the NRA convention halls were packed with guns of all kinds, all the participants were gun owners, and many of them had concealed weapons permits.
The 2007 NRA convention had a recordbreaking 64,500 people in attendance. In contrast the number of students and faculty of all kinds at Virginia Tech is just 27,124. That includes part timers as well as full timers, and of course not all are on campus at once.
One student murdered 32 people and wounded more than 20 others on one day at gun free Virginia Tech in April. No one was murdered or wounded in several days at the NRA convention.
In fact there have been many murders on America's gun free schools and campuses throughout the years, but no one has ever been murdered at an NRA convention in the 136 years of their history.
As Texas Representative Susanna G. Hupp pointed out, if guns are the problem how come nobody has ever been murdered at an NRA convention while mass murders are committed in gun free zones?
On April 16, 2007, while Cho Seung-Hui was murdering people at Virginia Tech, the NRA had just concluded its 136th annual convention in St. Louis.
Virginia Tech is a "gun free zone." Thanks to its administration and the Virginia legislature, no one can have a gun on its campus legally except the police. In contrast the NRA convention halls were packed with guns of all kinds, all the participants were gun owners, and many of them had concealed weapons permits.
The 2007 NRA convention had a recordbreaking 64,500 people in attendance. In contrast the number of students and faculty of all kinds at Virginia Tech is just 27,124. That includes part timers as well as full timers, and of course not all are on campus at once.
One student murdered 32 people and wounded more than 20 others on one day at gun free Virginia Tech in April. No one was murdered or wounded in several days at the NRA convention.
In fact there have been many murders on America's gun free schools and campuses throughout the years, but no one has ever been murdered at an NRA convention in the 136 years of their history.
As Texas Representative Susanna G. Hupp pointed out, if guns are the problem how come nobody has ever been murdered at an NRA convention while mass murders are committed in gun free zones?