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Originally Posted by Yahwe
then I think that you need to question your mentors intellect more closely than you have so far been doing.
The US making a law to ban guns would reduce these deaths by pointless psycho massacre.
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No it wouldnt, and events generally have consequences other than the ones intended. Looking at isolated incidents (including large scale massacres) is a pointless way of measuring a nations level of crime/violence - youd be better off looking at the actual murder/crime rates and working out how gun legislation would affect them, rather than allowing yourself to be emotionally swayed by high profile incidents.
Most people who get killed dont die in school shootings or other massacres, so treating these as being a paradigm case of murder is stupid. There's something like 16000 murders a year in the US, so the 32 occurring at Virginia Tech arent even distinguishable from statistical fluctuation. It isnt a big deal in the larger scheme of things, and basing policy decisions around it is kneejerk reactionism - there isnt the slightest bit of evidence that banning guns would reduce the murder rate on a national scale, regardless of whatever warm happy feeling it might give you inside.