MSNBC’s Howard Fineman has already signaled — on both MSNBC this morning and the Dennis Miller Show earlier today – the attacks to come on Virginia following the massacre at Virginia Tech — Virginia’s “liberal” gun laws are at fault; Virginia is the home of the NRA; etc. (Not Larry Sabato pointed out yesterday how within hours CBS News was already pushing an anti-Virginia agenda.) Basically, the left will paint the picture that Virginia (and the rest of the nation) won’t be safe from gun violence until everyone in Virginia is reeducated and turned into mind-numbed blue automatons.
Never mind the fact that the Virginia Tech campus is a “gun free zone” (which didn’t mean a heck of a lot to the deranged person who committed this horrific shooting spree) and legislative efforts to allow law abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons on campus with a permit were defeated a year ago, something celebrated by VA Tech spokesman Larry Hincker. Never mind what happened five years ago at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, VA where two law students retreived a handgun from one of their vehicles, captured and held at gunpoint until police arrived a former student who had just killed three people and wounded three more. And whatever you do, don’t pay any attention to the extensive studies and empirical data compiled by John R. Lott regarding guns and self-defense.
What happened at Virginia Tech is an unimaginable tragedy. There are two questions that we should be asking following this event. How do you prevent someone from going over the edge like this and what do you do to stop someone once he has? It should come as no surprise that those questions are not being discussed and instead the left, led by Jim Moran, is using this as an opportunity to try and score political points. Shame on him and the rest of them for doing so, especially after they were conspicuously silent on Jim Webb’s recent complete disregard for basic gun safety protocols.
Filed under: Crime, Second Amendment Rights
“Gun free zone” translates into the old saying, “If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.” Sounds like DC. This S.O.B knew other students wouldn’t be armed. If they weren’t restricted, might have been a different story. Don’t get me wrong. I truly believe there shouldn’t be guns on a college campus. It is an educational environment and the hope and desire that academic curiousity will be explored is what we hope for in our students. Outlawing our guns takes away from our right to protect ourselves. Virginia’s gun laws is one of the reasons I moved here from DC. I like being able to defend myself from those who seek to do me harm.
[...] If Governor Kaine were truly concerned about mental health, he’d make it easier for parents to stay at home by reducing their tax burden. As for the Virginia Tech shootings, perhaps if the school had not been allowed to violate the Second Amendment, the story would have been much different(Riley at Virginia Virtucon). [...]