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JACK CAFFERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And we -- there was an interview last night with a couple of kids who held a table against one of the classroom doors and prevented this guy from -- from getting through the door and into another classroom. It's pretty amazing what the human spirit is capable of when it's really challenged.
It's pretty easy to get a gun in Virginia, but you can't have one in most of the schools. The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence says that no license or permit is required to buy a weapon in Virginia and there's no waiting period for people who want to buy a gun.
You want to buy a gun?
Go out and get one right now.
The law does prevent you from buying more than one gun every 30 days, though.
The state got a C minus from The Brady Group in its most recent report card on state gun laws. But get this -- Virginia ranks ahead of 32 other states that got grades of D or F.
Here is a part of the problem, a pretty good sized part. Guns are banned on most of Virginia's college campuses. Back in 2002, a graduate student who was kicked out of Virginia's Appalachian School of Law came back to campus with a gun, killed the dean of the law school, a professor and a student and wounded three others.
So while it's relatively easy for anyone to get hold of a gun in Virginia, for the most part, the students, faculty, etc. can't have them.
Result?
They become the ultimate helpless target for some psycho. He knows the students are unarmed.
How much easier could it be for him?
We'll never know the answer to this, but what if somebody besides Cho Seung-Hui had had a gun at Virginia Tech yesterday?
Here's the question -- what can other states learn from these mass murders that happened in Virginia?
E-mail caffertyfile@cnn.com or go to cnn.com/caffertyfile -- Wolf.
BLITZER: You know, I've been on this campus now, Jack, for just a few hours. But the young people here -- this could be any campus anyplace in the United States; indeed, any place in the world, and all of a sudden this place is turned upside down by this kind of tragedy.
CAFFERTY: But you know what shows through?
I've got -- and believe me, I've been watching this story closely. My youngest daughter is a senior at Tulane and the second this story broke yesterday my thoughts went right to her. Of course, she's fine.
What shows through to me is the character of the young people. It's like those three kids down at Duke University that were exonerated, found innocent of all of that -- the lacrosse players, that rape charge. You listen to those young men talk -- and these students here -- and there's a lot of reason to be, I think, hopeful, about the future of this country.
It's pretty easy to get a gun in Virginia, but you can't have one in most of the schools. The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence says that no license or permit is required to buy a weapon in Virginia and there's no waiting period for people who want to buy a gun.
You want to buy a gun?
Go out and get one right now.
The law does prevent you from buying more than one gun every 30 days, though.
The state got a C minus from The Brady Group in its most recent report card on state gun laws. But get this -- Virginia ranks ahead of 32 other states that got grades of D or F.
Here is a part of the problem, a pretty good sized part. Guns are banned on most of Virginia's college campuses. Back in 2002, a graduate student who was kicked out of Virginia's Appalachian School of Law came back to campus with a gun, killed the dean of the law school, a professor and a student and wounded three others.
So while it's relatively easy for anyone to get hold of a gun in Virginia, for the most part, the students, faculty, etc. can't have them.
Result?
They become the ultimate helpless target for some psycho. He knows the students are unarmed.
How much easier could it be for him?
We'll never know the answer to this, but what if somebody besides Cho Seung-Hui had had a gun at Virginia Tech yesterday?
Here's the question -- what can other states learn from these mass murders that happened in Virginia?
E-mail caffertyfile@cnn.com or go to cnn.com/caffertyfile -- Wolf.
BLITZER: You know, I've been on this campus now, Jack, for just a few hours. But the young people here -- this could be any campus anyplace in the United States; indeed, any place in the world, and all of a sudden this place is turned upside down by this kind of tragedy.
CAFFERTY: But you know what shows through?
I've got -- and believe me, I've been watching this story closely. My youngest daughter is a senior at Tulane and the second this story broke yesterday my thoughts went right to her. Of course, she's fine.
What shows through to me is the character of the young people. It's like those three kids down at Duke University that were exonerated, found innocent of all of that -- the lacrosse players, that rape charge. You listen to those young men talk -- and these students here -- and there's a lot of reason to be, I think, hopeful, about the future of this country.
En The Situation Room del 17 de Abril de 2007.
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