The Virginia Tech massacre |
 W hat's wrong with us?" asks the Lonely Machines blogger. "There's something very wrong with our society that we keep producing monsters like this... Then what do we do? I just don't know." The Say Anything blog thinks he has the answer: "The best defence against this sort of thing is to arm ourselves as well as the criminals are." Had the US "promoted the personal use of firearms as a tool for self defense (as our founders intended) rather than poo- |
pooing it at every turn the dead/wounded toll from this shooting wouldn't have made it to the double digits." His theory is repeated throughout the blogosphere. AndrewsDad quotes the Virginia Tech President of University Relations saying "Guns don't belong in the classrooms. They never will," to which the blogger drily responds, "Just imagine if the students were armed. We no longer need to imagine what will happen when they are not armed." But "absolutely nothing" will happen to change the law, blogs the Martini Republic, and that's because gun control is as political as abortion and the death penalty. "Americans love their guns the way winos love Night Train." Over on the DesMoinesRegister blogs, David Yepsen reminds of the political turn-off of gun |
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