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Article: Curbing guns, but not too much; The Virginia Tech massacre.(One year after the Virginia Tech shootings)(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 19, 2008
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One year on from the worst mass-shooting in American history
ON APRIL 17th last year a deranged student, Cho Seung-hui, killed 32 people before shooting himself at Virginia Tech university. He had legally acquired the two handguns he used that morning. Before his rampage on the campus, which spreads over the rolling hills of Blacksburg, teachers and university police were already worried about his volatile behaviour and violent writings. He was recommended for psychiatric treatment but, because of cracks in the state mental-health system, never received it.
Virginia's rush to reform has been dramatic but incomplete. At the urging of the state's governor, Timothy Kaine, ...
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