Virginia Tech Massacre Part Two

I still disagree that guns kill people... And before anyone thinks I support the NRA, I have never owned a gun, never shot a gun, and I have campaigned for the Brady Bill and the banning of assault weapons. The statement guns kill people is too simplistic. Guns are the means for people to kill, but something snaps in their minds before they reach for the gun. Before a trigger is pulled, a mind finds a reason, a twisted reason, to end life and pick up the gun...My point is we need to find a way to stop people before they can pull a trigger. But how? How do we defuse the internal time bombs ticking in people's minds? How can we stop the time bombs? There are reports the killer blamed the victims, saying something to the affect you made me do this...The killer wrote a note railing against "rich kids," "debauchery," and "deceitful charlatans." My point is the 23 year old snapped. But can you really blame the NRA for a 23 year old student snapping? What happen, what experiences made him devalue life? What made him think his life and the lives of others was meaningless. What made him lash out in a desperate attempt for attention? What made him blame the victims for his rage? Guns played a part, the end game, but the killer's time bomb is the reason he pulled the trigger, set the events into action. Tightening the gun laws will help, but it appears he obtained the guns legally. His weapons of choice were two handguns. If he strapped a bomb to his chest and walked into the building or dorm or cafeteria and killed innocent people, would the crime be less heinous? We couldn't blame lack of gun control or the NRA for the bombing. My point is after years of studying human behavior, no one knows or can predict what will make an individual person snap and go on a killing spree, gun or bomb in hand...Jeffery Dahmer didn't use a gun. Another tortured mind, a ticking time bomb. Timothy McVeigh used explosives to make his statement. People can kill in many ways. We have done so for centuries. The invention of gunpowder was the beginning of the end. I detest our gun culture, using guns to solve problems, but gun control is only one part of the solution. I wish guns were the sole reason the student killed, but before his rampage, a series of events happened causing a mind to snap before he bought and used the guns. His mind exploded. If the massacre at Virginia helps to tighten gun control laws, keeping ticking time bombs from getting guns, maybe the students' deaths won't be in vain. But the larger question is how to detect minds ticking on the brink...The killer displayed signs. One professor tried to intervene. The police said they couldn't do anything. I wish I had an answer. Guns are only one way for killers to kill...I detest the NRA, always will. But if the killer used dynamite, poison, or fire, whom would we blame? My heart goes out to all the victims at Virginia Tech and all the victims of violent crime across the country. I would prefer a gun-less America, but the second amendment won’t be repealed. The first and fourth amendments can get repealed, just not the second. More importantly, I would prefer a world where everyone values life no matter the static in their lives..."There is always madness in love, but there is also always a reason in madness." Nietzsche