I had the honor of meeting Dr. Gratia Hupp during a counter demonstration to the Million Mom March in May of 2000. She recounted her story to an audience of 5000 and had them in tears describing the pain she lives with everyday because she complied with the law. Her children will not know their grandparents and 21 people died in 2001 at Luby’s cafe because legally no one in the state of Texas was allowed to carry a concealed weapon.

As Suzanna said in her testimony, she would rather be facing a felony than have her parents dead, but these are the decisions these type of stupid laws force citizens to make to protect themselves and their families.

Gun Free Zones = Public policy with tragic results.
What happened at VA Tech is a prime example

This was a part of a post by Greg L. over at BVBL.

….”Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, recording the words of Cesare Beccaria: “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

Why is that some can’t or refuse to acknowledge this common sense wisdom ?

“Gun Free Zones = Public policy with tragic results. What happened at VA Tech is a prime example”

It is also a prime example of our incompetent immigration system. The shooter came to the US when he was 8 or 9 years old. His mother said he had severe mental illness and she thought if they came to the US the change would be good for him.

He constantly suffered from severe depression, his writings were “twisted, macabre violence that used weapons,” he basically never talked to anyone. Teachers and students knew that he was a cause for concern.

He was a citizen of South Korea, a legal resident alien that should not have been issued a visa, even as a child with his history of mental illness.

He left a note behind with references about “rich kids” and “debauchery.”

I think he bought his bullets and supplies from Ebay.

I don’t know about the VT shooters status as a citizen, I never heard he was here illegally. I do remember reading that he was making improvements with socialization in HS in FFX County and his parents were told by the social services staff at the school not to send him to a large University, that he would not function and he needed a smaller, controlled environment. So his parents sent him to VT.