[SumYungGai @ Apr 18th 2007 2:05PM]

Yeah there's a real smart idea.. ban keeping better track of students..because you know they won't shoot up a school or anything like that one chinaman did when he turned Virginia Tech into swiss cheese the other day. /sarcasm

For the love of god, hopefully these idiots get a clue - if anything we need MORE tracking and nothing BUT tracking of students, and uh yeah maybe also get a big red alarm light and sound at gunshops so that students that walk in won't be able to carry the implements of death out of there like what's-his-name Virginia Tech guy.

[Richard Sportwood @ Apr 18th 2007 2:26PM]

Sorry, but that's ridiculous. Track all you want, but you can't prevent random acts of violence. If someone wants to massacre innocent people, we simply cannot stop them. Gun control will not prevent criminals from obtaining guns -- that's why they're criminals. Likewise, tracking people will not prevent criminals from harming others. The solution to problems like these is teaching people that they are responsible for their actions and by allowing law abiding citizens to carry firearms. If each professor and various students at Virginia Tech had guns with them that day, blood would have still been shed, but the outcome would have been dramatically different. The shooter might have pulled off a few rounds, but he would have quickly been taken down by the other law-abiding students.

Politicizing this tragedy is irresponsible. RFID tracking is an invasion of privacy, a lessening of freedom, and as much as I'd like for it to, it will do nothing to help the situation.

[tippy @ Apr 20th 2007 8:29AM]

Dustin Frazier your blindness is truly frightening

[Socrates @ Jan 25th 2008 9:54PM]

I cant even believe that a conversation was even developed on this topic. Tracking devices for humans? EVERYONE needs to stop and take that in for a minute..........OK now that you thought about it, doesn't it sound absurd? How can the government even legitimize something like that, we are not cattle, we are not exotic sea creatures, and I dont know about anyone else out there but I for one do not even posses a criminal record. So enlighten me as to why or how it is even acceptable to be tracked and monitored by the government...or anyone for that matter, as I go about my everyday law-abiding life? There is a need for me to be watched as I prepare dinner for my family? Or while Im at my desk at work, or on vacation? Honestly, let's cut the bullshit, the politicians making and passing these laws are the ones who need the devices. We know absolutely nothing about the leaders of our "great" nation other than what they deem acceptable for us to know.