Posted 4/17/2007 04:37:00 PM by Douglas

I wonder if the editorial board at The New York Times has a macro or some kind of subroutine to generate this stuff? It sure would save time if they could just hit F5 after these kinds of tragedies and generate their ad hominem gun control op-ed.

But it seems a safe bet that in one way or another, this will turn out to be another instance in which an unstable or criminally minded individual had no trouble arming himself and harming defenseless people.

Way to go, Times and way to hedge your bet with an assumption you can't validate. Why not ask the question of why the students were defenseless? Unless you're totally delusional, even New Yorkers must accept that they live in a world where firearms exist, so why take them away from the only people that know how to lawfully use them?

What is needed, urgently, is stronger controls over the lethal weapons that cause such wasteful carnage and such unbearable loss.

Well guess what? They got it at Virginia Tech, last fall.

Virginia House Bill 1572 was proposed in 2005 by Shenandoah County, Va., Republican Del. Todd Gilbert after a VA Tech student with a state-issued concealed handgun permit was arrested and charged only with "unlawfully" carrying a handgun on campus. The bill would have prohibited state universities in Virginia from enacting "rules or regulations limiting or abridging the ability of a student who possesses a valid concealed handgun permit ... from lawfully carrying a concealed handgun."

I'm sure the families of yesterday's victims will sleep easier knowing the person responsible for this senseless tragedy broke the law by possessing a firearm on campus.