After a day of mourning and shock, the whole country could not get enough of the VA Tech shooting massacre. The shooter has been identified as a South Korean male who immigrated in the early 1990's and was in the country legally through a green card. He was described by many as the loner, quiet type and in his creative writing assignments, it was shown that he had very disturbed and violent thoughts. Given medication and therapy, people thought it would be enough to keep him sedated.
Anyways, there have already been stories on the internet on how the shooting would affect the presidential race, or rather, lack the infuence on the race. The shooting rampage would not affect the presidential election because most top candidates already favor gun control laws. The strongest advocate for gun control is Hillary Clinton. Not only do the top 3 democratic candidates favor gun control, Rudy Guiliani and Matt Romney of the Republican party favor gun control as well. Gun control is such a hot topic in politics, but to come out and use gun control as their main focus would be detrimental to their campaign right now. Unless the issue of gun control would be considered a vote winner, instead of a vote debater, then the candidates shouldn't be jumping on gun control laws yet. Well, not until Congress does. Congress hasn't done anything about it yet either.
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