22 people gunned down at Virginia Tech

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To answer the green card question, it is legal to buy a gun if you are "legal resident of the United States."
He is that...and that applies in any state.
Here's the difference Allen. In Virginia, if you are a convicted felon, you cannot own a gun. I think it's that way everywhere. The difference is: it don't take two blinks of an eye and you are a convited felon in the state of VA. Dui's are rampant here, not just because we have a bunch of drunks here. Our achohol blood level content that qualifies you for a DUI is LOW. If you don't pay your child support, let your kid miss 14 days from school, file a false police report..just to name a few...you lose your right to own a gun.. ANY gun.

My steadfastness does waver on green card folks...but if the federal government let's them in, thinks they should be allowed here and whatever...then I would think it would be ok for a decent law-abiding "citizen" to own a gun.
That fool would have shot em, blew em up...whatever he could have done, guns are not to blame.
Common sense in gun laws?? Naw honey...common sense period needs to be applied. But look at it this way...so the guy was half-cocked...tell me..legally...what could the college have done??
What about all the vietnam vets or armed forces that were mentally destroyed? Are they a ticking time bomb walkin our streets? Maybe..maybe not...but why should we let the federal or state government regulate what we do with unstable people??
Unless those people have proven criminally that they are a danger to themselves and others, you can do nothing. The college can do nothing.

Common sense...you are a law-abiding person..you get a gun..you aint...you dont get a gun. That will never change unless they take away the second amendment and our guns cause any law-abiding citizen can go out and do what he did.