Exactly Todd,

You said it all  below as far as I am concerned.

The "tragedy" is in the anti-gun laws that prevented those students in Virginia Tech from defending themselves.

No, on second thought, that is a crime, too.

Somebody is covering their rear or rears because of the VISA problem...AGAIN too!

When will they ever learn...when will they ever learn.

Politicians at the ready I am sure...trial lawyers already got their ambulances warmed up...this whole thing is pathetic and a lot of deaths could of been prevented.

My heart goes to the families as I stated this morning...but this country really needs to wake up and fight back.

Loved your blog.

Several years ago i came across a web site for the media that had anti gun articles, videos, reasearch all done, ready for publication. all you had to do was click on what you wanted and enter a credit card number and you were good to go on the liscencing etc.  

Out here in california we have quite a bit of this stuff. That is the MSM not telling us just what is happening.

Whenever there is a rather exciting shooting they "blame the guns". The thing that they fail to tell us is that generally the guy that does the shooting is illegal on several counts, each of which if it were enforced would have stopped the act/s.

In fact in the state of california i would speculate that it is easier, cheaper and quicker to buy an illegal gun than being legal.

The gun laws in mexico are quite stringent, yet they shoot them down by the gross.

The states/cities that have the most restrictive gun laws have the highest homicide per 100,000 rates.

If these clowns really wanted to shut down gun violence they would teach two things in the schools.

1.     if you shoot someone without a really good reason you are going to do some really hard time with no chance of slipping off.

2.     take great care not to irritate someone so much that his trigger finger starts to itch.

Is Michael Sneed of the Chicago Sun Times male or female?

Just curious... and really, really confused.

You could solve this problem once and for all. Make gun ownership only allowed by citizens of the US. Allow any citizen without a felony able to get a concealed gun permit with their drivers license. Have a shooting range at every Drivers license testing center and require people to have shooting time (like flight time) to keep their license.

My best friend's father taught us how to fire a pistol and a rifle. He taught us how to stand properly and how to reload like military professionals. The proper stance is like you see in CSI sometimes, with the gun in your dominant hand, and your other hand, cupping the bottom of the gun. You never hold the gun in two hands pointed straight out in front of you with legs spread wide... that's just plain stupid. We were taught how to shoot, and aim very quickly. None of this one handed BS, you aim and you hit what you're aiming at. We did practice for hours on end, and after years of practice, both of us, as teenagers, could easily fire a magnum .44 blackhawk revolver... hell of a kick, yet we were extremely accurate with it. I have also fired a 38 special, a .22 Colt automatic, a 9mm Glock, a 9mm Barretta (hand gun), and a Colt .45... not the beer. I was best with the Barretta.

What do you wanna bet that if students had been packing and trained, that guy would have probably gotten a few shots off before he was gunned down. I'm a betting man and I'd take the bet that there would be probably 30 people alive today had other students been carrying.

Stupid leftists.... this whole incident is their fault.

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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms..." ~ Richard Henry Lee, 1788, Member of the First U.S. Senate

I was listening to the local news and they had come onto my university's campus and were asking around for opinions from some of the students and one mentioned that campus security teams (probably at most if not all national universities) cannot carry guns. So if such an incident happens, who the heck is going to defend the innocent? As this student said (paraphrased) "what is a taser gun with limited range going to do against a guy with a .45-cal hand-gun or sawed-off 12-ga shotgun?" All he has to do is turn around and blow campus security forces away. Wow, thanks liberals, for making me feel that much (less) safer. You know, under a liberal agenda, I can picture America's police forces turning into European police forces. I'm not sure if this is true all over Europe but I know that many European policemen cannot carry guns by law. So when a bank robber is leaving the bank with $50,000, what is the near-by police going to do? Maybe if he says "stop... please!" enough times, the robber might feel sorry and surrender... maybe.

Not only those things, but I am an avid water-foul hunter and I'm not giving up my 12-ga Browning Semi-Automatic so easily. The libs will have to pry it from my cold, dead hands if they want "enforce gun control".

Our side needs to go full court press on the offense on this one. Any Concealed Weapon Permit holder among the students or faculty could have killed this terrorist, but a "permissive" college made its own rules to trump state law, with tragic results they'll now try to blame on someone else. This is a failure of "gun control" and the idea that proponents will try to use it to extend the failed policy is surreal. The terrorist chose to attack a target whose own rules softened itself to attacks, and previously on that very campus CCW holders warned this would happen. Now it has, we get to say "I told you so," not the other side.
JMR

UPDATE 3... Consider this. Fox has just named one of the victims.

He was in the dorm at the time of the first double murder. Just digest that.

He was there. He was allowed to go to class, only to be murdered himself by apprently the same shooter.

Someone tell me that something inexcusably and unforgivably wrong hasn't occured here.

"This is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel,"
Rosie O'Donnell, Ph.Dumbass, Emeritus Professor of Stupid Wimmn's Studies, Clown University.

The Tragedy is that the other students didn't have the opportunity to defend themselves. VT didn't allow conceal carry on the campus.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any
man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

-- Sir Winston Churchill