Man carrying assault weapon attends Obama protest

[August]

Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb

Then perhaps for an instance like that, persons under a certain age (say 25?) should not lawfully be able to personally own their own weapon. They should be able to use weapons owned by family members i.e. their father for either personal protection in the home or for sport whilst accompanied by an adult able to take responsibility for them. Exceptions could be made in very specific circumstances, like retired military personnel who could lawfully own a weapon under the "age limit". Such restrictions don't infringe on your "right to bear arms" as you call it, as access to weapons for protecting yourself or your family is still there but would hopefully prevent you from getting guns into a campus. Its quite likely that the tragedy at Virginia tech may not have happened if that lad hadn't been able to purchase a gun from a local store using such restrictions.

I'm not trying to turn this into a gun law thread. Just wanted to show what kind of alternative views you guys over there could take on gun ownership and what is and isn't acceptable

Well I see what you're getting at but actually the VT killer bought his weapons in violation of the law.

Again though if just one of the other students at VT had his weapon on him at the time of the shooting that massacre might have been nipped in the bud.

To paraphrase Erasmus: "In the land of the disarmed the man with one gun is king."

[Steel_Tomb]

Originally Posted by August

Well I see what you're getting at but actually the VT killer bought his weapons in violation of the law.

I didn't know that, I thought he had purchased it normally.

[August]

Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb

I didn't know that, I thought he had purchased it normally.

Yeah, those with a history of mental illness are not supposed to purchase weapons. Basically he lied on his application but the government doesn't check medical records because of right to privacy issues.