Virginia shooting and gun control

2007 April 16 is the tragic day, which will leave a big scar for American people and for all worlds’ citizens. On this day a South Korean student of Virginia Institute Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded many more before committing suicide, making it the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.

The massacre raised the gun politics debate in the United States. The fact that the gun was sold to the person with mental illness shows that the guns are too accessible in America. U.S. politicians have shown little attention to introduce new gun control legislation in a country where an estimated 40 percent of U.S. households own a gun. This is a society that owns approximately equal numbers of wristwatches and guns: around a quarter-billion of each.

Gun control is a dead issue in the United States, and it isn't coming back. Now when so many people have guns, there is no real solution to this problem. On the other hand it is never too late to make radical decissions and try to improve gun control situation.