Virginia Tech: One Year Later

[ericire12]

Its the one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, so I thought it would be fitting to open a thread and start a discussion about the subject.

Gottlieb, co-author of America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age

I like many of you feel that gun control fanatics will use this event to lobby for gun show legislation, waiting periods and whatever else they think the public wants to hear. However, Virginia Tech is the text book example of how stringent gun laws utterly fail to prevent such shootings, and exacerbate them by making it impossible for the victims to fight back and defend themselves.

Gun grabbers suggest that closing a mythical 'gun show loophole' will prevent such crimes, but Cho didn't purchase his guns at a gun show. He bought both pistols at gunshops, after passing background checks and waiting the mandatory 30 days between purchases. Steven Kazmierczak, the Northern Illinois University shooter, bought all of his guns at one gun shop. He passed background checks and had a required Firearms Owners Identification Card. These killers obeyed every applicable law (laws pushed by the gun ban lobby) yet they now tell us that these laws weren't enough. Their laws failed. Their entire philosophy has been a monumental failure.

The real tragedy is that some people believe the fairy tale that gun-free zones and restrictive gun laws will keep them safe when past events prove otherwise. Anti-gunners tell America that more gun laws, in a nation where citizens already are drowning in local, state and federal gun laws, will somehow discourage determined, suicidal killers.

Ultimately, these people think the Second Amendment is a 'loophole.' They exploit tragedies like Virginia Tech to push for unilateral victim disarmament. Yes, we should remember Virginia Tech, and take sensible steps to prevent such crimes in the future. We must make it possible for people to fight back.

[baershooteer]

Not much more to be said.  Politicians like anti-gun laws because demonizing guns is far easier than attacking the root causes of crime in any meaningful way (if that is indeed even possible for government).  It makes you wonder if any politician has heard that the definition of insanity is: To do the same things over and over again and expecting different results.