Virginia Tech

People have died because some scumbag decided he had had enough and was going to take some others with him. This on a campus that saw a shooting back at the beginning of the school year. And several bomb scares in some of the same buildings where Monday’s slaughters occurred.

Bradford B. Wiles, then a graduate student at Virginia Tech wrote Unarmed and Vulnerable which appeared in the Roanoke Times August 31, 2006

A 911 call was made after the first two victims were killed in the dorms. Campus police responded but it was already too late for the two people on the floor. When the shooter was nowhere in sight or in the dorms, the police made a fatal mistake of assuming he had left the campus. Two hours later they discovered how wrong they were.

Loren Heal at the Socrates’ Academy on The Police Cannot Protect You


You got that? Only you can protect yourself. Stay alert and aware at all times. Think outside the box if the state won’t let you carry a weapon. Take inventory of what you are carrying and what is around you that could do the job.

I read with interest one account from a survivor that the shooter walked into the classrooms and just stood and shot people one after the other. I can’t help but think that there could have been some effort to fight back. Books, purses, chairs, anything that could be thrown should have been thrown while some brave souls rushed the SOB. It would be difficult to do but certainly better than remaining passive in the face of death. Of course, if the state had passed the legislation mentioned in Wiles’ op-ed piece….

Clayton Cramer of CLAYTON CRAMER'S BLOG on Preventing Massacres

One of the better essays I’ve seen is this from Armed Canadian VA Tech Shooting I felt many of the same emotions upon hearing the news. And as the bloviaters and BS experts did their thing on CNN and MSNBC and even FOX News, I felt more and more outraged. Even on the blogs, I started to get angry as update after update would produce little but numbers and speculation. The students and faculty who were injured or died deserved far better.

Some people (and groups) are just insensitive jerks. Paul Helmke, president of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence shows no class at all. Within hours of the shootings the group’s web page is using the actions of this deranged South Korean to raise funds. (The Bitch Girls have the capture here. ) It has to be one of the most callous acts by a political action group in a long time.

It’s moves like the these and the shear ignorance of the gun grabbers that makes it necessary for those who believe in the Second Amendment to remain ever vigilant.
Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom on Gun Control