VA Tech

The tragic events at VT will surely provide a launch pad for the anti-gun crowd. Much can and is being written/said on the topic, but the argument is really a non-starter, and doesn't require much to be said. The pertinent fact is that this crime occurred on gun-prohibited ground, where the victims had been stripped of their God-given and Constitution-affirmed right to self-protection. No gun law, written or conceived, can keep people from being gunned down. Laws can only define the penalties for non-compliance, and thereby attempt to be a deterent. Any attempts to leverage the given situation towards greater restrictions on gun acquisition and ownership can only be unwarranted, counter-logical, and motivated by raw emotion (i.e., standard M-O for the radical left).