[This message has been edited by CoryFiero (edited 12-14-2012).]

ANY EVENT - this is a tragic event, and my thoughts go out to the families affected. No idea what would posses someone to go out and kill children like this. Indeed a sad day.
Now, sort of off topic:

quote Originally posted by Purple86GT: anti gun laws make people with guns stand out. when will you people get this? Over here you carry a gun you got som explaining to do.

um, no - stiffer gun laws do nothing to prevent loons like this from killing. Example, take Mayerthorpe tragedy (yes this happened in Canada and WHILE the gun registry was intact) - the gun registry did nothing to prevent this, nor did the fact that the loon was known by the cops to hate cops and was prohibited from owning guns. So how come none of that stopped him from killing the 4 RCMP officers?

Or how about all those shootings this year in Toronto? Those all happened with 'restricted' guns - yet people still died on public streets. How did the gun laws protect these people?

Sure if I was to walk down a street carrying a rifle I probably wouldn't get too far before someone calls the cops, but that being said, put that same gun in some sort of case or blanket I wouldn't get stopped. What is preventing some loon from doing the exact same thing here? Nothing. It doesn't take anytime to park you car and get out of it carrying a gun and run into any building and kill a bunch of people. That exact scenario has happened here in Canada (although he didn't kill anyone): http://www.theglobeandmail....duct/article4252096/

If a person wanted a gun, they will get a gun, gun laws or not. Look at a recent incident in France where someone killed people at a school there, France FYI has tougher gun laws than we do and yet it still happened.

quote Originally posted by Purple86GT: No I do not, I do however think that some can be averted or the consequences can be less severe. Gun laws will never prevent PLANNED attacks. they will virtually stop unplanned aggressions. You also need to factor in the average Joe with sub average training on the proper use of a firearm. The training you need to have the "right" to carry a firearm is ridiculous. Where I work we have stringent training (over a year), follow-up training, psych test, etc. to carry a weapon. Armed personnel are trained to not pull out their weapon unless they are POSITIVE of the results. You do not want to cause a panic reaction from the other party with a weapon, you do not want hostages, etc..

Not true, unplanned aggressions will happen with or without a gun, how many knife attacks happen or people beaten to death?

Also, I own several guns and I never took training that was over a year. In fact I never had any such formal training on firearm use - I was taught to respect and proper use of guns as I was growing up. You also don't need any special kind of training to own a restricted weapon either. You do need a different permit for restricted weapons, but once you have that, there is nothing stopping you from walking into any gun store and buying a hand gun, etc.

Besides all that training and psych test for "armed personnel" that you speak of didn't prevent this tragic event from happening here in Canada either: http://news.nationalpost.co...iversity-of-alberta/

[This message has been edited by Mickey_Moose (edited 12-14-2012).]