There are many sad aspects to the Virginia Tech massacre that are worthy of comment and prayer. I want to mention but one here. I believe that gun control laws are in part to blame for the tragedy. Yes, you read that right. I know that every “expert” on the TV that I am not watching is saying precisely the opposite. <\/p>\n
Gun control laws keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding people. Consequently, only the police and one vigilante had a gun at school the other day. But the police were nowhere around and so there was no one to stop the murders. One armed student or teacher could have stopped the killings and saved many lives.<\/p>\n
Ah, but if there were more<\/em> gun control laws, then that would have prevented the murderer from having a gun. Sure…just like drug laws make cocaine impossible to buy. Just like immigration laws keep illegals out of the country. The reality is that guns exist, and no law will ever get rid of all of them. Therefore, criminals will always have access. And to stop them when they decide to go on a rampage, law-abiding citizens must have guns. Monday’s tragedy is yet another illustration of the truth that you cannot expect the police to protect you. They simply cannot be everywhere at the same time.<\/p>\n Virginia Tech does not allow guns on campus. What would have happened if faculty and students were given the choice to carry a gun? It’s not difficult to figure out, as a similar situation occurred 5 years ago at another Virginia school, the Appalachian School of Law, where guns are not outlawed. Best of the Web (Wall Street Journal)<\/a> describes how the gunman killed three before he was stopped.<\/p>\n Students ended the rampage by confronting and then tackling the gunman, officials said. <\/p>\n “We saw the shooter, stopped at my vehicle and got out my handgun and started to approach Peter,” Tracy Bridges, who helped subdue the shooter with other students, said Thursday on NBC’s “Today” show. “At that time, Peter threw up his hands and threw his weapon down. Ted was the first person to have contact with Peter, and Peter hit him one time in the face, so there was a little bit of a struggle there.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Last year there was an attempt to pass a law so that guns would not be outlawed on campuses, but the law was defeated. Ironically…<\/p>\n Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. “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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n They weren’t feeling safe on Monday.<\/p>\n This is not a conservative\/liberal issue. It’s not an NRA issue. It’s logic. Simple logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are many sad aspects to the Virginia Tech massacre that are worthy of comment and prayer. I want to mention but one here. I believe that gun control laws are in part to blame for the tragedy. Yes, you read that right. I know that every “expert” on the TV that I am not\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-i-dont-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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