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Stephen Main br> San Francisco, California /p> p> Folks should keep a clear head and recall that armed students stopped the killer at the Appalachian School of Law, as your reader Doug Roll points out. Those who object to guns on campus should realize that getting a concealed weapons permit (CWP) is not a cakewalk and requires, at a minimum, a criminal records check and either attendance at a course or evidence of handgun training. Most importantly, CWP holders are folks who really want to carry handguns and understand all of the infractions that can strip them of that permit; they are a rather responsible, sober lot who realize that even showing their handgun to others can result in permit loss. Finally, like any responsible gun owner, they know that guns and alcohol don't mix and put their weapons in a secure location before the drinkin' starts. br> -- Mike Cakora br> Columbia, South Carolina /p>

Mr. Tabin has presented a concise and accurate appraisal of the cost of gun control. The Europeans and other of our "friends" re much more socialist than we are; they have all enacted draconian gun control measures which have all failed miserably yet like the lemmings they appear to be, they would have our government impose such measures on us. Thankfully, and unlike the subjects of European socialist tendencies, we here in the USA have a Bill of Rights.

Among these enumerated right is the Second Amendment acknowledging an individual right to own and possess firearms. So unlike our socialist brethren, "The Government" can't just slap our hands and take our personal defense firearms. That being said, it is a sad state of affairs that none of the multitude of students who could have been armed, were not. It seems that regardless of what the law allows, academia prefers to keep it's head planted firmly in the sand and proclaim it's fear of firearms at the top of it's lungs. Their anti-self-defense neurosis has cost us the lives, the futures, and the potentials of 32 innocents, and crushed their families forever.

p>It is not a coincidence that whenever an event such as this unfolds, sensible people want to know why there was not one armed person in the multitudes. br> -- Benny Rubino br> Lebanon, New Jersey /p>

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