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Originally Posted by ilovetv

I don't disagree, but when wannabe mass killers can't get high capacity ammo cartridges and the rifles and pistols themselves, all they have to do is rig up some portable propane gas tanks as the Columbine killers had, or rig up the pressure cookers like the Boston bombers did.

When psychos want to be on stage doing a massacre, they find a way regardless of laws. They are lawless to begin with.

Until police, school administrators, courts and mental health professionals take seriously and act upon the dark, sick-minded musings and threats of killers like the VA Tech one, as Prof. Nikki Giovanni did, these evil people will find ways to carry out their plans.

Not even the U.S. Army acted upon the crazed jihadist harangues that the Ft. Hood killer had done in classes with psychiatry residents at Walter Reed Army Med. Center! (But that, sadly, was probably due to to fear of "racial profiling" and corresponding "need" for political correctness).
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The Professor Who Said 'Not in My Class' -- NY Times

“Once I realized my class was scared, I knew I had to do something,” she told The Washington Post.

So she confronted him about the dark sunglasses and maroon cap he would wear in class and the darker poetry that he would write.

“You can’t do that,” she told him, referring to the “intimidating” poems.

“You can’t make me,” he replied.

“Yeah, I can.”

Her next step was to lobby the department head, Lucinda Roy, writing a letter requesting he leave the class, she told CNN. And she was ready to go all the way.

“I was willing to resign before I would continue with him,” she told CNN. “It was the meanness.”

The Professor Who Said 'Not in My Class' - NYTimes.com

The Professor Who Said 'Not in My Class' - NYTimes.com

That's interesting about Prof. Nikki Giovanni and the Virginia Tech killer. There must be some checks and balances on this kind of power given to Professors though as in my experience people with a lot of control over others often abuse this authority. She was right about this student but there could be other unpopular students who are ostracized by there fellow students for any variety of reasons. Bullying from fellow students in all its myriad forms is often the start of the journey these murderers embark on which ends with them harming others using very violent means.