Everyone with a sense of moral outrage is mourning along with the families and students of Virginia Tech. Predictably the left is screaming for tighter gun control laws. You could also extrapolate it and say they wish to ban all guns. From all I've read on the subject, the shooter bought the guns legally, the crack that he fell through was in the lack of communication between agencies. I don't believe mentally unstable people should own guns, especially in the wake of this horrific crime. The warning signs were all there but the privacy of the individual the left so ardently supports got in the way of sharing the information that would have banned this troubled individual from ever LEGALLY purchashing a gun. Anyone with a grain of sense knows that in spite of all the laws guns can be purchased without going through the process that those of us who bought ours legally have to endure.
Not to make light of the problem in any way my question is, would the left have reacted the way they did if the individual had made a homemade chlorine gas bomb? Would bleach and ammonia both be on the list of things that they would want to regulate? One of the excuses i've seen listed was that there wasn't the money to ensure that the information that would have banned this person from legally purchasing a gun was distributed. Come again? There wasn't money available? Surely this was an oversight that will be corrected as soon as the mourning period is over.
When I saw the horror I did two things, first my prayers went out to the families of those who had to endure this senseless tragedy, the second was to cancel my cable subscription. Why? The endless play and the pontificating of those "experts" was frankly too much to endure. I can get my daily fix of bad news on the net as easily and I can CHOOSE what to watch.
Banning guns will not keep weapons out of the hands of people who wish to do others harm, it will instead create the same kind of illegal supply and demand as those who wish to do drugs. If the demand is there someone will supply it. The idiot mayor of New York City in his rant against Virginia gun dealers shows his ignorance and left wing bias. Those gun dealers didn't go to NEW YORK to peddle their wares and it seems NEW YORK has enough problems without going cross state to find more.
Once again the left and the drive by media has shown their lack of concern and alternative universe mindset where if you just talk to people everyone will be better for it. Like the 19 hijackers that left a gaping hole in the New York skyline right? There are some people whose intentions are clearly stated and unwavering, yet the left believes that dialog will overcome someone's illness or a desire to become a martyr for the cause. Wake up people.