Who will have guns if they are banned? Anybody who wants one and has cash to pay for it. Gun control works well with tyranny.

Gun control advocates in Congress said that while the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech University underscores the need for tougher restrictions on firearms, they probably don't have enough support to pass such legislation.

Representative Carolyn McCarthy, a New York Democrat, said she has little hope that the House would renew a ban on assault weapons that lapsed in 2004, even with Democrats in the majority for the first time in a decade.

She said she will push for legislation that would ban the sale of large-capacity ammunition clips and improve a national database used to conduct criminal background checks of gun- buyers. McCarthy's husband was killed by a gunman on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993.

Shooting tragedies, while often spurring calls for new gun controls, haven't usually resulted in legislative action. The last bid to enact stricter gun controls came in the months after the shootings at Colorado's Columbine High School in 1999. That effort failed because of bipartisan opposition in the House.

President George W. Bush, who addressed a convocation at Virginia Tech today and met with relatives of some of the shooting victims, said he expected the deaths of 32 people at the hands of a 23-year-old student armed with two handguns would reignite the gun control debate. More

   You knew this massacre would renew the debate over gun control. The argument has nothing to do with guns and everything to do with people who use them. The weapon above was made in a one room shack which had no electricity. It belonged to the Unabomber. Where there's a will to kill, a determined individual will find a way. Should we ban cars to prevent drunk driving? Maybe we should take away all the matches to stop arson. Or perhaps, we should outlaw fire to prevent the cooking of meat. It is not the appliance, mechanism or method we need to be concerned with.

It is the people who use them.

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[Bomb-a-rama]

She said she will push for legislation that would ban the sale of large-capacity ammunition clips...

Okaaaay then, ASSUMING that a potential shooter would actually "obey the law" (*snicker*), wouldn't the logical response would be to simply carry MORE smaller capacity clips??

[Justin]

I fully agree with this. "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." Yeah, it's very cliché, but it's true. If someone had already been at Virginia Tech or Columbine helping these students before they go on these rampages, they probably wouldn't have killed anyone. I think people like to blame guns simply because they don't want to feel responsible despite the fact that they could've done something.