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April 16, 2007
Virginia Tech Tragedy Might Have Been Avoided
Posted by Dave Blount at April 16, 2007 10:00 PM
Compounding the tragedy at Virginia Tech is the fact that it might have been avoided if not for moonbattery.
A 2005 bill would have prevented Virginia state universities 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."
On behalf of VT's educrats, spokesman Larry Hincker expressed delight when the bill failed:
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.
But as experience keeps teaching us, law-abiding citizens are never safe when they have been disarmed by their government. Even a single maniac — who is not going to be worried about gun laws — can put them in the position of being systematically slaughtered until such a time as the government shows up to cart the bodies away.
As Erich Pratt of Virginia's Gun Owners of America observes:
The only schools and universities where these tragedies have been stopped abruptly were the places where law-abiding citizens had a gun that was accessible to them and they were able to stop the shooter. The schools and universities that had to wait for the police to arrive, those are the ones that find these high death tolls.
The massacre at Virginia Tech took as many lives as it did because there were no armed citizens in a position to put a stop to it.
On a tip from Bill V.
