Once again we are a nation that must face a national tragedy. Once again we are faced with a barrage of unfounded quasi-logic. Our so-called leaders are spouting for more gun control based upon the false claims that generally accompany any crises. Some are claiming already that the defunct Assault Weapons Ban would have stopped the criminal. As if more laws would have any effect whatsoever on a criminal hell bent on destruction. Many cite the Japanese model yet, it too is a paper tiger ( see http://www.davekopel.com/2A/LawRev/Japanese_Gun_Control.htm ).
The utter chaos that happened, and continues to happen in places like Canada, Great Britain, and Australia since the implementation of draconian gun laws provides a template for disaster that we most certainly should not implement. While changes need to be made here in the United States more restrictive laws are patently not the answer.
Pandering by politicians of whatever stripe should be examined closely for logical fallacy and shear idiocy based upon emotion. The Neo Communist’s (Neo Comms for short) will without a doubt decry our freedoms; Without ever noting that more freedom, not less probably could have minimized the tragedy. They will, without a doubt fail to note how a law that would have allowed qualified persons to be armed at Va. Teck was quashed last year. They will, without any doubt deny any culpability whatsoever for preventing the victims of this latest shooting spree and the other incidents that we are all to familiar with from being able to effectively defend themselves and others. Indeed they will overtly deny that by passing the laws that turned our schools into target rich free fire zones they share guilt for every person harmed in any of these incidents.
Conservative Libertarian Outpost 
April 17, 2007 at 20:06
What precisely do you mean by “more freedom” and how exactly would it have “minimized the tragedy?” Why should there be more weapons on campus, not less?
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April 18, 2007 at 09:13
Quite a simple thing to explain that. More freedom, as in students being allowed to carry weapons so that they can effectively defend themselves as well as others from maniacs. More freedom, so that instructors and staff can do the same. More freedom, so that young men can act like young men rather than being politically correct, as in behaving like they are a “metro-sexual.”
I don’t believe that these things would, or could have prevented an incident. But I certainly believe that it would have been minimized.
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April 18, 2007 at 09:24
I am going to point this out one time, and one time only, those guns that Cho Seung-Hui carried didn’t kill one single person, Cho Seung-Hui killed those people, he used the guns as tools to kill with, so, think about this, a rock can be a deadly weapon in the hands of a maniacal killer, maybe we need to regulate rocks, it makes about as much sense…
An armed student(s) could have stopped this, there were so many ‘flags’ thrown by this perp it’s ridiculous, the university dropped the ball by not acknowledging the potential problems, and face it, an armed society is a polite and much more safer society…
Here in Texas we have a good bit of gun violence, and 99.9% of it is committed by thugs and professional criminals that are doing so with illegak guns, ie:stolen…
But here in Texas we can fight back, and we do… And I am very proud of that fact…
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April 18, 2007 at 10:41
Yes, I agree. I teach at a university and if you can prove to me that you are able to bring rocks to my classroom and use them to kill 32 people in a matter of minutes I will indeed call for a ban on these kinds of rocks on campuses.
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April 20, 2007 at 00:47
I agree, and more than fifty associates from the Colorado School of Mines can produce such rocks…
The death toll would be much greater than 32 though.
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April 20, 2007 at 00:47
What, if I may ask, is your specialization?
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April 21, 2007 at 11:30
Patrick, what part of goofy libber did you miss?? That’s an accredited major now a days… He apparently hold a Masters in it…
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April 22, 2007 at 08:01
Thanks, always good posts on your blog!
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April 24, 2007 at 09:13
Ara you sure that it isn’t a PhD?
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April 24, 2007 at 09:17
And some day I will remember to hit the spell check, or even look at what I write before hitting enter… LMAO!
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