The owner of an Internet-based firearms store that sold a gun to Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho says he is now offering a discount for students who want to carry guns on campus to protect themselves, ABCNews.com reported. The same company, TGSCOM Inc., was involved in another scandal, as it sold two 9mm Glock magazines to Steven Kazmierczak, the man responsible for the latest deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University.

Almost 30,000 Americans die every year due to gun violence, many of them young people. Despite the fact that the officials have repeatedly introduced several bills to stop gun violence, these bills were not effective, due to the opposition of gun-rights advocates. David Pope, president of Oak Park Village, presented a list of shootings on school campuses during the recent months, pointing to the urgency of creating laws to prevent any more deaths.

Meanwhile, Eric Thomson, the owner of TGSCOM, announced a new program for the next two weeks: he will sell low cost firearms in the hopes of targeting students who may be on a tight budget.

"This offer allows students and people who might not have otherwise been able to afford a weapon to purchase one at a hefty discount and at a significant expense to myself," Thompson told ABCNews.com.

A spokesperson for Virginia Tech said that Thompson's remarks and offer are "incredibly insensitive to the families of the victims who lost loved ones, and to the injured students still recovering from this horrendous tragedy," said Larry Hincker, the Associate Vice President for University Relations, according to the same source.

Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said he sent about 20 officers in and around Whittemore Hall, the place where the meeting was held.