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We may well talk tonight about the Virginia Tech shootings

Comments

1. At 02:44 PM on 30 Aug 2007, wrote:

   What happened at Virginia Tech could have been prevented. All of the mechanisms to prevent such a tragedy were in place but were never implemented.

2. At 03:39 PM on 30 Aug 2007, Simon Worrall wrote:

   Roberto;
   So long as weapons are available to people with malice in their hearts the potential for this to happen exists. There is no system of foolproof preventitive measures that will ever fully protect against this happening again, and again.

   We are not yet in an era when people with the potential to cause harm to others are locked up on hearsay. Otherwise we would all be occupying cells.

   Si.

3. At 05:54 PM on 30 Aug 2007, JimmyGiro wrote:

   Could this incidence be an example of crying wolf?

   How can precautionary systems be effective in a society which over exaggerates as a matter of course?

   If everybody is made out to be a potential murderer or rapist, what cue will initiate preventative action when so many false calls are made?

   In America feminists advise women to shout "fire" if being raped, because they have learned to up the rhetorical ante owing to the jaded human response in a society saturated with fear and paranoia.

4. At 09:05 PM on 30 Aug 2007, wrote:

   Jimmy (3),

   "over exaggerates"

   tut tut!

   P. Edant

5. At 10:29 PM on 30 Aug 2007, JimmyGiro wrote:

   Ed (4) - Oops, did I 'boldly went'?

6. At 07:56 AM on 31 Aug 2007, David McNickle wrote:

   Thank you Roberto. Now tell us how Columbine and 9/11 could have been prevented. The US has 90 guns for every 100 people. I saw that Elvis the other day....