Yeah, what a brilliant plan. Take a bunch of 18-22 year-olds, many of whom are away from home for the first time, under a lot of stress, and frequently drunker than hell, and do what? Give them all guns, of course. What could possibly go wrong?

How long do you think it would take before the gun-related deaths at campuses everywhere would far outstrip the 32 at VT? I’d give it a week, max.

It’s utterly stunning how far these idiots are willing to go to avoid admitting that perhaps the Second Amendment was a product of its time (like the Third). Maybe since we aren’t a small, weak nation with hostile natives on one side and a hostile imperial power on the other, and since everyone realized by no later than 1812 that the idea of a small citizens’ army was a pipe dream and that you need professional soldiers with lots of training to handle battlefield situations, and finally, that citizens with rifles are no longer on equal footing with a military that has developed tons of new and devastating weapons in the 200+ years since, thus rendering the idea of an armed citizenry fighting off a tyranncial government fit only for joke movies like Red Dawn, well, maybe we can let go of our neurotic obsession with personal firepower and start thinking about why Western Europe manages to get along just fine without them, for example.

Maybe.