Literally within minutes of the breaking news that a nut case was shooting people at Virginia Tech University, the usual suspects were cranking up their usual propaganda talking points about how more gun control would make us all safer. Pavlov would have been impressed.
This crowd doesn't seem able to grasp the concept that the shooter was violating V Tech's gun control rule when he entered the campus heavily armed. In fact he proved conclusively that he was willing to violate any gun law they might pass and was willing to die to carry out his mania to violate gun control.
When will rational people in this country wake up to the fact that disarming people by creating "gun free" zones only serves to point nut cases at locations where they are very unlikely to encounter resistance. The recent shooting at Trolley Square shopping mall in Salt Lake City is perfect example: There a nut case shooter was intent on killing as many as possible and would have most certainly succeeded in killing more that he did but for an armed citizen who chose to ignore the "Gun Free" sign posted on the entrance to the mall. The off-duty policeman did have his weapon and was able to engage the killer before he could kill again, thus ending the threat with undoubtedly fewer casualties that would have otherwise occurred.
The only way to protect yourself against these killers it to arm yourself. The police can't be everywhere, and more gun control laws will only make the next case worse than V Tech.
