LONDON Apr 17, 2007 (AP)— Expressions of sympathy rang out from Buckingham Palace to Beijing as the world absorbed the news of yet another deadly shooting rampage in the United States and questions grew over how such violence could break out yet again and whether lax U.S. gun laws are a case of freedom gone too far.
Criticism echoed across Europe where gun laws are some of the toughest in the world.
"Only the names change And the numbers," read a headline in the Times of London.
Two professors from India and Israel were among the dead at the Virginia Tech shooting, the deadliest in U.S. history.
Liviu Librescu, 75, an engineering science and mathematics lecturer, tried to stop the gunman from entering his classroom by blocking the door before he was fatally shot, his son said Tuesday from Tel Aviv, Israel.
"My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview of his father, who immigrated to Israel from Romania, and was on sabbatical in Virginia.
Indian-born G.V. Loganathan, 51, a lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was also among the dead, his brother G.V. Palanivel told Indian media.
---Do you think tougher gun laws could have prevented this tragedy?---
2 comments:
no, stiffer gone laws would not have prevented this shooting, it's already ilegal to conceal carry for 99% of the population, and murder is already against the law.
I saw a very amusing quote the other day, litterally painted on the back of a guys truck.
"I'm safer hunting with Dick Chaney then Driving with Ted Kennedy"
If this guy at VT didn't have a gun, he would have used a different weapon. Without a doubt the body count would have been lower,unless maybe in the unlikely event he used an al qaeda style suicide vest.
If he used a knife or hammer or something there would have been 2 or maybe 3 dead. A ban on guns won't stop murders. People seeing this as a gun only issue miss the point that this was a maniac bent on killing people. Gun control is not getting to the root of the issue, mental disease in this case. People stuck on the body count issue lead me to believe that while 32 dead is not acceptable to them, 2 or 3 dead people is.
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