This thing in Virginia is an absolute fucking atrocity. It shouldn’t have happened; it shouldn’t happen. Thing is, it did. Unless we’re completely unwilling to accept reality, it will happen again. It has gone down in schools, shopping malls and post offices. The only thing we can do to is learn from the failure here.

The massive and atrocious failure here is the failure to uphold our 2nd amendment rights. Yes, I’m talking about those rights. The rights that let us keep and bear arms. I absolutely, unequivocally believe that the death toll would have been nowhere near 30+ people if there had been a tiny percentage of students with CCW permits and a weapon. There are about 28k students at VT. Lets call it 30k people for a nice round number. In states with shall-issue permit laws, an average of 1-5% of the population have permits. Had the campus not banned guns for all students (we can clearly see the positive effect that had), we could assume that 1% of students would have a CCW permit. Since college kids are usually in a delusional dream-world of safety and security, its probably generous to assume 1% might carry. Maybe things like this will change that. This guy went into no less than 4 classrooms with probably 30 students in each. In at least ONE of those classrooms (with 1% CCW penetration), there would have been an armed civilian who could have put a stop to this insanity. One kid had the presence of mind to fashion a tourniquet out of an electrical cord. Thats heads up thinking. That kid, armed with a CCW could have ended all of this. Maybe not before it started. Maybe not before 5 deaths. Certainly before 30+.

I’ll be surprised if this event doesn’t turn into an all-out attack on guns. People will use this tragedy as an example of how evil guns are and how more guns = more violence. Unfortunately thats absolutely the opposite of how we should be looking at this. No one stood up to stop this guy. He managed to shoot 60 people with no resistance. Its pretty hard to fight back against a gunman with a textbook, but at least if all these victims hadn’t been disarmed someone would have been able to fight back on an even playing field.

Lets say tonight I find a magic lamp. I rub the lamp and a genie pops out. The genie says “Listen, I’m going to offer you something. I’ll make all the guns in the United States disappear. No gun will be able to enter the US without vanishing. The only place you’ll be able to shoot a gun is at a shooting range for entertainment only.” What would I do? I’d have to say I could maybe get on board with that. Except that over here in the REAL WORLD its not going to happen. Bans guns, and only bad people will have them. Then deranged people like Cho Senghwhogivesashit will be able to carry out a massacre like this, with 100% certainty that the victims won’t be armed.