page_title: Virginia Tech shooting
section_title: Effects on gun politics
hierarchical_section_title: Virginia Tech shooting / Effects on gun politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Walther P22 Note: I used PTlens to correct for barrel distortion and vingetting on the original picture. As a result, the image was cropped slightly. Hopefully, this improves on the original significantly enough to be worthwile. --&#39;&#39;&#39;I am Asamuel&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 22:51, 6 May 2008 (UTC) Original upload log The original description page was here. All following user names refer to en.wikipedia. 2007-09-25 05:08 Davken1102 556×456×8 (46650 bytes) 2007-09-25 05:05 Davken1102 2048×1536×8 (338947 bytes) Walther P22
context_page_description: The Virginia Tech shooting was a school shooting that occurred on April 16, 2007, at two buildings, West Ambler Johnston Hall and Norris Hall, on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university and a U.S. resident of South Korean origin, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols. Six others were injured jumping out of windows to escape Cho. As police stormed Norris Hall, Cho committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. It is the deadliest school shooting in the history of the United States, and was also the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history until it was surpassed nine years later by the Orlando nightclub shooting.
  The attacks received international media coverage and provoked widespread criticism of U.S. gun culture. It sparked intense debate about gun violence, gun laws, gaps in the U.S. system for treating mental health issues, the perpetrator's state of mind, the responsibility of college administrations, privacy laws, journalism ethics, and other issues.
context_section_description: The mass shooting reignited the gun politics debate in the United States, with proponents of gun control legislation arguing that guns are too accessible, citing that Cho, a mentally unsound individual, was able to purchase two handguns despite state laws that should have prevented such a purchase. Opponents of gun control argued that Virginia Tech's gun-free "safe zone" policy ensured that none of the other students or faculty would be armed and that as a result they were unable to stop Cho.
caption: Walther P22, one of the two semi-automatic weapons Cho used in the shooting.
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