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...rubble from the collapsed Juyuan Middle School, Liu stood in silent protest, along with nine other parents who also lost their only children when the schoolhouse crumbled in the quake. For more than an hour, as tears streamed down her face, Liu, 40, displayed a large photograph of Hui Shan, her daughter. It was a mock magazine cover, done up by the grieving mother and some of her friends in an art class. The photo showed the dead girl wearing stylish black glasses and an impish smile. "Sophisticated," the magazine's title read, just above the photo. Liu's vigil...
...year has passed since April 16, 2007, when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho went on a shooting rampage that left 33 of his classmates and faculty dead. In this time of reflection, sharp and painful memories from this tragedy have sparked calls for change from both sides of the gun-control debate: Pro-gun-control students have objected to the laws that allowed Cho access to a gun in the first place, and anti-gun-control advocates—including 25,000 members of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus— argue that students could have stopped...
...professor may have a gun in his or her desk would completely contort relationships—everything would be tinged with a faint hint of menace and paranoia. Although the stringent criteria for gun ownership are supposed to weed out the irresponsible or deranged, we must remember that Seung-Hui Cho obtained his handgun in a perfectly legal manner...
...Before the Virginia Tech shootings, Virginia could have (and should have) reported Seung-Hui Cho's psychological history to the feds, which would have made it harder for him to buy the two guns he used, but it didn't happen. "Virginia just misunderstood what the federal standard was," says Kristen Rand, legislative director at the Violence Policy Center, adding that both state and federal officials were responsible for the bureaucratic confusion over which information to report...
...federal database since the Virginia Tech tragedy - bringing the total to 32. Other states are considering laws to improve their reporting, but many of those bills are not expected to pass into law. For now, in other words, 18 states still would not report someone like Seung Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, to the federal database...