Good Intentions, 32 Dead

What a horrific tragedy today at Virginia Tech...I'm sick to my stomach -somehow, in its own way, it struck me as a mini-9/11, the type of terrible event I never expected to see in my lifetime.

And yet - I can't help thinking about gun control.
What a worthless, piece of sh*t policy it is - in my anger, can I at least say only liberals can embrace a policy endorsed by Adolf Hitler?

What is the base effect of gun control? It leaves good people - innocent people, like college students - helpless and defenseless before bad people.

Winds of Change:

...the administration at VA Tech had advanced a university rule preventing concealed carry on campus, for permit holders. Although someone carrying on campus would not be violating any state firearm laws my understanding is that they could be prosecuted for "trespass" and could be fired or expelled from the school.

At this point the authorities are saying that at least 20 persons [now 32 - ed.] have been killed at VA Tech by a gunman who didn't even bother to conceal his weapon.

...a single person with a concealed carry permit could have prevented the tragedy.
The real travesty is that no one who might have put a stop to this was armed, because they'd been stripped by good intentions--thus making the campus relatively safe for an attacker who wasn't really worried about expulsion....

Of course, the university tells you that the lack of handguns makes the campus a safer place - hmmm...

A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly.
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."

Another dim bulb in the Virginia Tech administration - Larry Hincker, associate vice president for university relations at Virginia Tech:

Guns don't belong in classrooms. They never will. Virginia Tech has a very sound policy preventing same.

Hey Hincker - your policy isn't worth sh*t, and it helped kill 32 innocent people today, as you helped make these poor students sitting ducks for a sicko who knew no one could shoot back.

Michelle Malkin has a "blame-the-guns" watch, as she points out the media picked up the liberal talking points ASAP.

How come nobody in the media asked if gun control was the problem, or suggested an expansion of concealed-carry laws, like those on the books in some of the safer states in the nation? Could it be because no one in our "diverse" media - no one - shares that opinion?

And if that's not an example of institutional bias, I do not know what is.

May God bless the souls of the dead, and may He show no mercy upon their executioner....

A few of my past thoughts on the issue here and here . And one should always keep an open ear when The Bitch Girls are talking guns...