Monday, April 16, 2007

We're taking bets that tragedy can bring out even crazier people...

A sad tragedy has occurred on the campus of Virginia Tech and it makes me appreciate the Security officers here at QU. Stopping someone who is trying to do evil can be very hard and my heart goes out to every one of the victims. With that being said there are some people out there who are trying to capitalize on this tragedy.

Phillip Van Cleave you are an evil little man. He is the president of the Virginia Civil Defense League and he released a statement immediately after the Virginia Tech tragedy. MSNBC.com ran an excerpt from his statement on his site.

Excerpts from Van Cleave's e-mail with the subject title: "VA-ALERT: Gun-control claims lives at Virginia Tech"
"As most of you know VCDL has been pushing hard to change Virginia law to allow college and university students with concealed handgun permits to be able to carry a gun on campus for self-defense. ... We could not get the bills out of subcommittee."
"The General Assembly turned a deaf ear to allowing college and university students to be able to protect themselves and here we are today :-( "
"ENOUGH OF ELITIST BALONEY FROM COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES! If just ONE of those victims had been armed, this most probably would have turned out very differently".


Just what we need more guns on campus and maybe we should give free alcohol to minors. Kindergardeners have a chance to be threatened so teachers should carry concealed Glocks as well. Instead of 33 people dead there would have been 100 people dead if there were concealed weapons all over Virginia Tech. I am in support of the 2nd amendment, but this guy is freaking ridiculous. You have the right to bear arms because in the 1700s you had a better chance of being attacked by a bear or coyote or the British. That isn't the case today. Educational institutions are not a place for handguns and freely allowing them would just cause chaos. Mr. Van Cleave if you ever want to spend a Friday night on a college campus I will show you what it is like, but leave your gun at home.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Holy cow, I can't believe he thinks everyone should be able to carry a gun on campus. That's ludicrous. I can only imagine the hundreds of people who would be killed just by accident alone if that were to happen...yikes.

the Book of Keira said...

That guy pissed me off, too. What a brilliant thought.... let's give everyone a gun!! Woo hoo!!

Idiot!