Another slaughter of the innocents...but why? Madmen will always be with us. Disregard for life has become a daily staple. Thank you Roe v. Wade. Thank you unpunishing penal system. But these things are not what is really at work in this situation at Virginia Tech. Soon, there will be cries for more gun control. But that is precisely what this situation decries.

In Virginia, all throughout the state, citizens have the right to carry concealed weapons. Everywhere, except on college campuses. If this madman had tried this massacre down the street at the local Burger King, someone would have probably taken him down after the first shot. There is a good reason why this nut chose the college campus...he knew no one was armed! Any other place in Virginia and he would not have had a chance. But only in the corn-flaked brained, pin-headed liberal, guns are bad college campus could something like this have happened! Let's all love one another and make everyone a sitting duck.

Just imagine how different this event would have been had Virginia Tech allowed the same laws as the rest of Virginia. At 7:15 a.m., a lone gunman would have unfortuanately killed a girl in a dorm room. At 7:16, the resident advisor or someone else would have shot the lone gunman. The result: 30 innocent students would go on to successful lives. Gun control does not stop violence. Gun control does not save lives. Gun control increases violence and causes more lives to be lost. Gun control only empowers those with evil intentions to carry out those evil intentions with the maximum result. An armed society...is a safer society.

We do not live in a perfect world. Bad things happen. But worse things happen when we unevenly unlevel the playing field. Bad people have guns. Shouldn't good people have them too? Gun control laws only control the good people. Bad people could care
less about laws. When will we learn? When will we grow up? How many more lives will be lost before the American people say enough? Our gun laws are akin to animals pulling out all their teeth in the hope that the lions won't eat them. Newsflash: lions still have teeth...and they will kill you unless you are able to gum them to death!

While I am saddened by the tragedy at Virginia Tech, I can not help feeling that it could have been prevented. And although most of it could have been prevented by locking down the university after the first incident, it could certainly have been prevented if someone else had a weapon. It is hard to compete with a gun when all you have are pencils. It seems higher education isn't so high afterall. All logic seems to have escaped them. Isn't it logic that separates us from all other animals?
I guess not.