Some people do get it. Despite all the brainwashing. The gun shop owner who sold a Glock Seung-Hui Cho, the insane kid who shot up the Virginia Tech school, is making ammends in his own way. No, he isn't closing down his shop. He isn't joining the Brady campaign. He isn't doing anything stupid to worsen the situation. He is offering to sell a firearm to any Virginia Tech student at a large discount. So large a discount, in fact, that he loses money on the transaction. To him, it is worth it, because the students, usually on a very fixed budget, would be otherwise incapable of acquiring a weapon with which to defend themselves (on campus). After all, this lunatic Cho was bent on a massacre, it is a safe bet that he would have perpetrated it whether it was easy to get a gun or not. However, if, say, just a quarter of the students there were packing, and had any idea at all how to use a gun, he would not have killed so many people. Maybe none at all.
Still, a spokes-moron named Larry Hincker, the Associate VP for University Relations, had this to say:
"[the offer is] incredibly insensitive to the families of the victims who lost loved ones, and to the injured students still recovering from this horrendous tragedy..."
Clearly, some people are just beyond help.
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