Gun control makes us victims4
18/04/07 12:39
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To the Editor:
As a mother with two students in college, I am sick to my stomach over the Virginia Tech massacre. Only a year ago, this school denied students and professors with concealed carry licenses the right to carry their firearms on campus. Obviously, the psycho who killed 32 people on Monday didn't pay attention to that rule.
The result is a campus full of people who were slaughtered because they had no way to defend themselves.
For those who believe in calling 911 for help, well, I guess now you'll understand why and how that doesn't work.
They can only, by definition, arrive after the attack has begun. If even one professor or student had a gun, this massacre could have been cut short, and lives saved. This event proves the need to be able to defend yourself the instant an attack happens, not wait for help to arrive. Now consider that the state of New Jersey denies you that right.
Gun control kills.
The question is now what are you all going to do about? Continue to support laws that turn us and our families into victims, while the predators act with impunity? I would prefer to think that 21-year-old students and professors are armed, than to worry as I do now, that they will have to cower in classrooms waiting for a psycho to systematically slaughter them.
MARILYN JOST
Andover
To the Editor:
As a mother with two students in college, I am sick to my stomach over the Virginia Tech massacre. Only a year ago, this school denied students and professors with concealed carry licenses the right to carry their firearms on campus. Obviously, the psycho who killed 32 people on Monday didn't pay attention to that rule.
The result is a campus full of people who were slaughtered because they had no way to defend themselves.
For those who believe in calling 911 for help, well, I guess now you'll understand why and how that doesn't work.
They can only, by definition, arrive after the attack has begun. If even one professor or student had a gun, this massacre could have been cut short, and lives saved. This event proves the need to be able to defend yourself the instant an attack happens, not wait for help to arrive. Now consider that the state of New Jersey denies you that right.
Gun control kills.
The question is now what are you all going to do about? Continue to support laws that turn us and our families into victims, while the predators act with impunity? I would prefer to think that 21-year-old students and professors are armed, than to worry as I do now, that they will have to cower in classrooms waiting for a psycho to systematically slaughter them.
MARILYN JOST
Andover
