Greyfox writes:Yup, if one of those professors or even another student had been carrying a gun the massacre could have been stopped much earlier.
Yup. Or one of those professors or even another student could have gone on a rampage and done the same thing for entirely different reasons... but no, I am sure that student was the only guy on the campus at the time who had "issues".
Sorry, but watching from Australia, the whole gun-control debate in the US is a farce. You only have to look at the firearm fatality rates per capita of western countries to realise the US is massively out of whack.
I know its OT but debates like this are a joke...
The problem with globalisation is that large companies can now have their cake and eat it too!
The get to pick and choose where in the world they set up manufacturing based on cost, and then
get to dictate pricing regimes for individual markets...
The copyright laws in our countries have been bastardised to such a point that a company still
has a say in what happens with their products AFTER they've been sold to the consumer.
A company should not have the power to dictate to me or anyone else who I sell their product
to AFTER I've legitimately purchased it from them.
Besides that, if I'm from Australia and I'm in Hong Kong and I buy a CD in the Hong Kong marketplace
WTF shouldn't I be allowed to play it in my own home is Aus?
Why are we (as a population) so ignorant and impotent that we allow a handful of governments and
corporations to implement these types of controls ??
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Greyfox writes:Yup, if one of those professors or even another student had been carrying a gun the massacre could have been stopped much earlier.
Yup. Or one of those professors or even another student could have gone on a rampage and done the same thing for entirely different reasons... but no, I am sure that student was the only guy on the campus at the time who had "issues". Sorry, but watching from Australia, the whole gun-control debate in the US is a farce. You only have to look at the firearm fatality rates per capita of western countries to realise the US is massively out of whack. I know its OT but debates like this are a joke...
The problem with globalisation is that large companies can now have their cake and eat it too! The get to pick and choose where in the world they set up manufacturing based on cost, and then get to dictate pricing regimes for individual markets... The copyright laws in our countries have been bastardised to such a point that a company still has a say in what happens with their products AFTER they've been sold to the consumer. A company should not have the power to dictate to me or anyone else who I sell their product to AFTER I've legitimately purchased it from them. Besides that, if I'm from Australia and I'm in Hong Kong and I buy a CD in the Hong Kong marketplace WTF shouldn't I be allowed to play it in my own home is Aus? Why are we (as a population) so ignorant and impotent that we allow a handful of governments and corporations to implement these types of controls ??