Brent’s post yesterday brought up a conversation that I don’t think it was meant to; Gun Control. Now, I don’t really have an solid opinion one way or another for or against guns but I believe there are things we can do to help prevent another VaTech.

Yesterday it came out that the Virginia Tech killer, Cho Heing-Sui, had a lot of issues. Previous to the mass murder he executed in cold blood, he had been reported to police as disturbed by his English professor, stalked women on two different occasions and even spent some time in a mental hospital. Now to me, this is guy shouldn’t have been able to buy a gun.

Apparently, to buy a gun the shop has to run a background check on the customer, my question is, what the hell are they checking if they can’t find this stuff?

Guns are without a doubt instruments of death and I believe we could do without them but since there is this thing called the Constitution eliminating them is not an option. What we need to do is provide a better system to for checking background information. Sure it borders on invasion of privacy, but its a price I’m willing to pay in order to prevent another senseless massacre.