I want to start out by Expressing my deepest condolences to the families of Virginia Tech and everyone else affected by this horrible tragedy.
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I can hear the gun control coming,,I can see this as the next platfrom for people against guns..I can not express strongly enough that it is the person not the gun that is to blame,or better yet with this boys mental history I think the college is as much at fault here as the gun.
Yes I own a gun several as I have stated before and no I would never go out and take a innocent life,and I really don't see my guns jumping out of the gun case and going out on their own to hurt anyone.I know you are going to say ..guns kill well Sweetie so does the human hand as a matter of fact I have not heard of to many serial killers that have used guns,and to the people who support gun control why don't you go and talk to a woman that is afraid to leave her home because she was raped at knife point how much safer she would be if they got rid of guns...BULL-SHIT..
I'll tell you what I will do for you people who want gun control..LEAVE ME YOUR NUMBER,,So the next time a rabid racoon comes up in my yard I can give you a call to come and knife him to death..or figure out a way to humainly relocate it..
This I found on the net and I just want to say if a person is going to kill then they are going to kill..gun or no gun
Women Against Gun Control 2A Educational Forum
City sees sharp rise in knife crimes
Date: Mar 29, 2007 7:30 AM
PUBLICATION: Calgary Herald
DATE: 2007.03.29
EDITION: Final
SECTION: City & Region
PAGE: B8
ILLUSTRATION: Colour Photo: Calgary Herald Archive / While gun crimes
weredown 6.5 per cent in 2006, the number of knife-related offences went
up 12 per cent. ;
BYLINE: Jamie Komarnicki, with files from Sarah Chapman, CalgaryHerald.
City sees sharp rise in knife crimes
The number of knife attacks in Calgary shot up last year, according to
the latest crime statistics, leading police Chief Jack Beaton to
question whether gangs are trading in guns for knives.
Knife-related offences hit 815 last year, up 12 per cent from the 728
offences recorded in 2005.
After a spate of summer shootings last year, police stepped up efforts
to combat gang violence -- a campaign that seems to be working, Beaton
said.
Firearm usage decreased by 6.4 per cent last year.
"We seem to have suppressed that (firearms), but then we see the knives
issue go up, so the question is, Have they traded their guns for knives?
We've had a lot of knifings in our city over the last couple of years,"
Beaton said.
"It's not something we want to see. It's violence in our city that's
not
acceptable."
Overall, both weapon usage and weapon attacks causing injury decreased
slightly last year.
But Ward 12 Ald. Ric McIver said sharp increases in knife crimes should
be taken seriously, citing public education and stricter penalties as
possible measures.
"Any good feeling we have about less gun crimes is taken away by knife
crimes," said McIver, who sits on the police commission. "I take no
comfort in the weapon of choice switching from a gun to a knife."
Another concerning trend, McIver said, is the number of car thefts,
which skyrocketed by nearly 44 per cent last year.
There were 45 homicide offences in Calgary last year as compared to 39
in 2005. Those figures includes murders, attempted murders, criminal
negligence and other offences causing death.
Beaton said homicides are one of the more "volatile" statistics.
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