It's only been a few days after Cho Seung-Hui went on a murderous rampage in Virginia Tech and killed 33 people in an event similar to the Columbine High School murders. Today, however, a contract worker in NASA named William Phillips shot dead a hostage before shooting himself. In Northern California, a man, Jeffery Thomas Carney, threatened to go on a killing spree but turned himself in afterwards.
This of course is one of the problems with easy availability of guns. The right to bear arms is protected by the American Constitution as people need it for personal protection. On the other hand, if guns were outlawed, anyone who happens to obtain one illegally and go on shooting sprees would meet little resistance.
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