I Hate Handguns: Virginia Tech And Personal Responsibility

Guns aren't to blame for individual stupidity. When someone gets shot, whether accidentally or otherwise, there's a single person responsible. The gun doesn't do the killing. The person does. If anyone thinks that a guy who wants to kill someone bad enough couldn't do it without a gun, that person obviously hasn't paid attention to history. But when dealing with mass murders like the one at Virginia Tech, we always get into this whole gun debate. What's to debate? A man blamed others for his own shortcomings, and took it upon himself to shoot others.

Cho bought those guns he used legally because he could. If it was illegal for him to purchase those guns, however, he'd have still gotten them. If he's willing to kill 32 people, he has no regard for human life, so what makes us think he has any regard for human laws? Anyone willing to kill 32 people is willing to break any number of laws imaginable to accomplish his goal. In the end, this all falls on the shooter.

Now, imagine if just one person other than Cho at Virginia Tech had been in possession of a gun. If just one person had a gun with them, one bullet and the shooting rampage is over. Of course, no guns, no shooting. I'm not going to argue either side, because both sides are equally valid. But we live in a world where there are guns, and as much as I hate it, we all must accept it and make our laws in accordance with it.

If we took the gun debate further, we could apply it to cars. If nobody drove cars, there'd be no car accidents to kill anybody. Of course, if people were more responsible while driving cars, there wouldn't be accidents to kill anybody.