The availability of guns was the problem. Only the monster was armed.

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Submitted by Nat Trayger, Apr 18, 2007 09:34

Too bad the other students at Va Tech were not armed. They might have been able to kill the monster before he inflicted so much damage. The problem here was gun availability. Va Tech forbade guns on campus which meant that the monster was the only one armed.

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