Virginia Tech made the murders on its campus possible

[Robert Hairless]

The senseless murders on Virginia Tech's campus could have been prevented if parents, students, faculty and visitors to the campus were able to defend themselves. But Virginia Tech does not allow it. The university tells the public that defenseless people who enter its campus are safe from criminals and the mentally deranged.

In January 2006, Virginia legislators had the opportunity to pass a bill that would have allowed legally armed citizens the means to defend themselves on the university campuses. The bill was proposed by Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, on behalf of the Virginia Citizens Defense League.

Virginia Tech and other universities lobbied against the bill and it died in committee. When the bill failed in 2006, Virginia Tech celebrated:

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."

Parents, students, faculty, and visitors probably did "feel safe" on the Virginia Tech campus but the reality is that Virginia Tech had helped to make them unsafe. Criminals and the mentally deranged cannot be prevented by legislation. Legislators can prevent good people from defend their lives and the lives of their children. That's what Virginia Tech encouraged the Virginia legislature to do: make people defenseless against criminals and the mentally deranged.

In 2006 Virginia Tech created the circumstances in which a deranged person could murder a great many people on its campus in April 2007.

How many more students must die before Virginia's law abiding parents, students, faculty and visitors to the commonwealth's university campuses are allowed to defend their lives legally?

Our hearts go out to the survivors.

The following news report was published in 2006 by The Roanoke Times, an outspoken critic of the rights of legally armed citizens to protect themselves and their families. The Roanoke Times continues to maintain that a defenseless people is a safe people.

Gun bill gets shot down by panel

HB 1572, which would have allowed handguns on college campuses, died in subcommittee.

By Greg Esposito
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A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly.

House Bill 1572 didn't get through the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety. It died Monday in the subcommittee stage, the first of several hurdles bills must overcome before becoming laws.

The bill was proposed by Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, on behalf of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Gilbert was unavailable Monday and spokesman Gary Frink would not comment on the bill's defeat other than to say the issue was dead for this General Assembly session.

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."

Del. Dave Nutter, R-Christiansburg, would not comment Monday because he was not part of the subcommittee that discussed the bill.

Most universities in Virginia require students and employees, other than police, to check their guns with police or campus security upon entering campus. The legislation was designed to prohibit public universities from making "rules or regulations limiting or abridging the ability of a student who possesses a valid concealed handgun permit ... from lawfully carrying a concealed handgun."

The legislation allowed for exceptions for participants in athletic events, storage of guns in residence halls and military training programs.

Last spring a Virginia Tech student was disciplined for bringing a handgun to class, despite having a concealed handgun permit. Some gun owners questioned the university's authority, while the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police came out against the presence of guns on campus.

In June, Tech's governing board approved a violence prevention policy reiterating its ban on students or employees carrying guns and prohibiting visitors from bringing them into campus facilities.

 

[1911Tuner]

VA Tech, et al

Signs that read: "Gun Free Zone" can be translated to:

"Anyone who wishes to come onto this property, take hostages, and murder them at whim may feel free to do so because nobody here has the means to do anything about it."

 

[Imaginos]

Dem Victory

Seems Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, and Brady finally got the massacre they have been wanting.
BOHICA

 

[Robert Hairless]

They have a right to celebrate. With that victory behind them, they can go on to make everyone in the country defenseless.

What they can't do, of course, is prevent criminals and mentally deranged people from murdering good people. But of course that's not what interests Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, Brady, McCarthy, and the general public. They only want to feel safe.

 

[James T Thomas]

old, outdated govermental methods

With computer accounting, etc. of votes in every legislature or house in our nation, including the federal government, is it not time to stop this side tracking, that is referring to committe, or panels, or what ever the process is called, that thwarts the democratic process and permits the few to pass or fail proposed legislation?

It's oligarchy in place of democracy in our republic, and there is no longer an excuse for it.

 

[gego]

If there is to be any outrage except against the shooter, it should be directed to those who prevent people from adequately defending themselves by being adequately armed.

To me it is so strange that some of these people on campus reach for their cell phones to take pictures instead of being able to reach for a gun. Part of this is the anti gun indoctrination of the school system and press.

Can you imagine a shooter going into a police station and being able to do this kind of damage?

 

[grampster]

What I can never, never, never understand is why do some folks believe that they can be always safe from violence? None of us are ever always safe from violence, ever!!

Further, why do those same folks believe that the absence of firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens who know how to use them somehow makes them more safe? What is the difference between a person who wears a badge and a person who has gone through a strict background check and who has to prove that he has had firearm training in order to carry a firearm? I would submit it is only the badge; a piece of metal.

This world is crazy and getting worse.

 

[sansone]

please read my signature. nobody outside this group listens(sometimes not even here)