The Face of a Killer? Not Someone who Would hold your Attention. Unless Holding a GUN on you?

Before it was a Bosnian Refugee and now a South Korean Cho Seung-Hui aged 23

Patrick Lockyer American Chronicle Author. I am opposed to guns. I am from England where there are no guns. I was in my city of Peterborough Cambridgeshire for 25 years as a driving instructor and many of my pupils were of the ethnic minority. Many of my pupils had turbans and lived in a house with multiple siblings. Now they are all successful businessmen and one is a Councilor and one lives in a mansion with columns outside. The point is that in the whole of my time in Peterborough there were no shootings and only one killing with a baseball bat. No policemen were shot. No students were shot. No one was seen wearing guns in the streets. I have also walked the streets of Soho in the West End of London in the early hours many many times safely and without any incident regarding guns. Guns here are a PLAGUE. They will continue to be a plague and the record for this kind of thing will increase and increase. Stupid Boortz talks of how they should have rushed the gunmen and how they would have had fewer casualties. What a load of cr*p. He is tasteless and heartless and has NO idea at all of what it might have been like to be in the line of fire. He compares the passengers of the Pennsylvania flight that supposedly rushed the terrorists. There is no comparison to knowing what happened to the other flights beforehand and these kids huddled together and faced with a gunman. I would deduce that the South Korean was not going to be a threat as such without his gun in the physical sense and now with his guns in hand he was the main man. He now has/had the attention of all these students who would be trembling at his knees.

This from Huffington Blogs:

(I have a story to share. When I was in college, I was dating a wonderful guy who was into guns. We'd go out on the weekends sometime to shoot cans and other inanimate objects, always in a controlled environment where there was no chance of accidentally killing anything. He was a very kind, thoughtful person who did not hunt with his guns-- he just liked having them around and he loved target practice. However, he was also a neat freak, and he lived in a duplex community with a communal trash can area. One of his neighbors had a young dog that was always getting into everyone's trash, much to [boyfriend's] dismay. It really bugged him a lot. One day, I went over to his house and found him sitting in the living room, looking strange and distraught. When I asked what had happened, he said, with tears in his eyes, "I shot [the dog]." He had been looking out the kitchen window and saw the dog rooting through a neighbor's trash, went to his bedroom and got his handgun, and killed the dog. A moment of rage and a handy gun overrode everything he believed he knew about himself.)

This is an honest account and I believe that any such person can act irrationally and that it will lead to more and more such killings. No guns and there would not be 32 deaths from this young man with obvious problems. What really is hateful is the excitement in Neal Boortz voice in having such a platform today. Whereas these matters should be voiced in an appropriate calm and demure manner this man is swinging in his chair and sounding off about how the students should have attacked the gunman. Boortz is rude to people against guns and asking him if he hunts on his program. His brashness is ugly and inappropriate. How would he feel to hear that HIS child should have rushed the gunman and gone down fighting? The fact is that this young disturbed man was in the ascendancy of being armed and dangerous. They all would be hoping for logic and reason to return any time soon. In any case a good shot could pick off anyone who moved and they would be dealt with first. The ugly point that Boortz makes is that someone amongst the students should have had a concealed weapon and killed the offender.

Why do the people who have the power of an national radio platform not see it that it is more the point that this young man should NOT have been able to have a gun in the first place. I had two daughters and three stepsons and I saw them all through three schools in the UK. There was not one moment that any kid or any adult had a gun to shoot with. There is no way for anyone to get a gun where I come from? Boortz thinks he is right because he has the platform and the control. For Heavens sake America this stupid biased Gun Lover is spending too much time justifying the right to have guns. I am glad that my children went to school over there and not here. America better do something because the next record will beat the 32 figure?