Just heard about VT Tech

[kittylover0991]

Hey Everyone...

I know, there are probably at least a thousand threads on this issue by now... but I keep watching the news and it's so sad... he was obviously a skilled gunman and so far, they've already recovered two 9mm ... There are also many that are in the hospital at this point in shock trauma.. my bus driver told me that they had to take them to five different hospitals in order to treat them all....

My dad also keeps saying that if we had guns, if we could all have guns and there were legalized, this sort of thing wouldn't happen.. but please pray for their families and those that are wounded... pray that God can somehow use this for good .. maybe someone will get saved....

Crystal

[kat8585]

My dad also keeps saying that if we had guns, if we could all have guns and there were legalized, this sort of thing wouldn't happen..

This is very true, and it's tragic that liberals can't see this.

[Guest The Animal Farm]

I heard about the shooting and experienced the same feeling as I did during the reports of Columbine, the MN shootings, the Amish shootings and all the others...an overwhelming sense of grief and loss. These are the times when my spirit doesn't even know where to begin to pray....families who have lost loved ones, victims in pain. I believe these are one of the moments spoken of in Romans:

Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. (NKJV)

I have to just turn to my Heavenly Father because I know no matter how out of control the world spins, He is there and He is in control even when we don't understand it.

[VelvetVoice]

I don't WANT a gun! I'd probably shoot myself by accident. I think the more guns that are out there, the more likely it is that tragedies like this will increase exponentially. Some days I feel like shooting a lot of people.

[Guest LadyC]

I don't WANT a gun! I'd probably shoot myself by accident. I think the more guns that are out there, the more likely it is that tragedies like this will increase exponentially. Some days I feel like shooting a lot of people.

well if the guns were in hands of people like you, (and me, for that matter) no doubt tragedies would increase.

consider this. martial arts can kill. but people who are TRAINED in martial arts rarely kill unless in defense of their own lives. even then, they generally use non-lethal methods of subduing their attacker.

same is true for those who are legally TRAINED in weaponry and gunmanship. the vast majority are self-disciplined when it comes to the use of a gun, know how to use it NON-lethally as well as how to use deadly force with it.

if there had been one trained, armed individual in that first classroom where he opened fire, how many lives could have been saved today?

[Pizzaguy]

I don't WANT a gun! I'd probably shoot myself by accident.

I don't know, do you drive into trees a lot - I mean, you DO have a car, or are you afraid of them, too?

I think the more guns that are out there, the more likely it is that tragedies like this will increase exponentially.

Only if someone USES a gun to kill. I attend gun shows with HUNDREDS of guns and THOUSANDS of people - most of whom are armed, yet I dont' remember a shooting at a gun show. Ever.

Some days I feel like shooting a lot of people.

Thoughts like that are usually the result of feeling powerless, taken advantage of, or are the result of some psychosis. Please seek help.

[Marnie]

I don't WANT a gun! I'd probably shoot myself by accident. I think the more guns that are out there, the more likely it is that tragedies like this will increase exponentially. Some days I feel like shooting a lot of people.

The opposite is true. The more guns, the less the violence. Check the link, and this link. It's the dirty little secret the liberals don't want you to know.

[kittylover0991]

my dad's theory about it is, is that if you are in a room with a bunch of pp who know how to use a gun... and then someone who is in there and upset, thinks about shooting someone? He'll probably think twice because anyone in that room could take him... my dad kept using the term "like a stuffed chicken"

Amen Farm.. praise the Lord for the verses He gives us and His intercession

[RedeemedByHim]

that is very sad....

[apothanein kerdos]

31 families are in mourning over senseless deaths of their children. Others are hoping their children pull by without serious consequences. Maybe now isn't the appropriate time to debate whether or not gun control caused this.

Some of these parents probably just sent their kids away from home...haven't seen them since Spring Break or winter. It has to be hard on the parents, getting used to their child being away, and then hearing that your child died in a shooting. We should pray for the families and healing at the school...leave the debate for later.