The Inevitable Insanity

[Tags: Guns, Virginia Tech, shooting, Columbine, gun ban,
massacre]

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Today, at Virginia Tech, 32 people were killed by a lone gunman who walked onto the campus and proceeded to shoot students in classrooms and dorms. While the motivations are not yet provided, details are sketchy in the media, the shooter has yet to be identified by name and the campus is reeling in shock - we are left wondering what the hell this was all about, the inevitable knee jerk reaction is ready to jump out.

MORE GUN CONTROL

What's obvious to the knee jerk reactionaries is that at fault here are in-animate objects... tools if you will, hell bent on the destruction of the human race. These molded pieces of steel and wood are obviously possessed as they are blamed for this tragedy not the people weilding these weapons who are sick or possibly suicidal. As Columbine provided the fodder for the Brady Campaign and IANSA to further the anti-gun agenda, so this latest round will again froth up those like Senator Diane Feinstein or Henry Waxman to already be planning a Congressional review and issue legislation to bring back the Assault Weapons Ban. I predict somethings will soon occur:

- Bloomberg & his insane anti-gun Governor posse will use this for their political benefit
- Hillary will use it on the campaign trail as will most of the Democrats running for the Presidency in 2008. Most will make promises to curb guns
- IANSA will use this as a focal point with the U.N., Soros and the Brady Campaign
- Either a TV movie, Lifetime movie or a Michael Moore Columbine Clone movie will be made of this event
- Politics will rule this issue, not calm minds and logic


The effect? All of this only hurts citizens MORE and protects us LESS. Would a few students who had access to firearms been there - they could have prevented some of the 32 from being killed. What the Virginia Tech shooting shows us, is that defenseless people in a large concentration like a University, makes easy targets. Who was supposed to protect these people? The police? The University? The University security? Who?

The police where already THERE and they couldn't prevent the rest from being killed. What needs to happen is NOT a banning of guns, but legislation allowing MORE guns - especially guns on a campus such that students can defend themselves. We already know what happens when they DON'T have guns to protect themselves - how about we try something else instead? The tragedy will inevitably cause the rabid gun haters to come out on the news, become the armchair generals saying "I told you so", when nothing could be further from the truth. We need to stop playing the victims, stop expecting everyone else to protect us from the bad things that go bump in the night. Stop thinking that the police will get there in time and know exactly where to go and what to do. We are responsible for protecting ourselves. I'm not saying anything different would have happened were some students to have access to a firearm while on that campus. But certainly, the possibility exists that the maniac shooter could have been brought down or incapacitated before 32 kids died.

- Banning guns takes guns out of the hands of legal owners - bad guys still get them illegally.
- No amount of cameras or metal detectors or security forces will prevent this from occurring again.
- No University or College can exempt the cost of having all these security precautions as it would make the cost of going to that college too high to continue to exist.
- Only idiots blame inanimate objects for actions of people

The Second Amendment to the Constitution
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Wake the hell up people and use your Constitutional right to self defense! These are YOUR freedoms, use them!