My sister heard some gun nut on the radio say that the Virginia Tech mass murder actually is an argument for having guns, since if more of the Tech students and staff had been packing heat, they would have been able to defend themselves. Luckily, Virginia has some of the most lax gun laws in the nation, so it shouldn't be too hard to arm all 30,000 Tech students.
In German, the word for those who go on shooting rampages is Amokläufer ("amok-runner") I learned reading a front-page article on it; it's all over the news here, and on the BBC too.
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