In June, Tech's governing board approved a violence prevention policy reiterating its ban on students or employees carrying guns and prohibiting visitors from bringing them into campus facilities.  HB 1572 failed. - this was a bill to allow VA CCW permit holders to have their guns on campus.

Well, that didn't work out.

I expect those of us in the gun community will need to be prepared for the onslaught of hopliphobia that this tragedy will engender.

A French correspondent just asked me:

Shouldn't you be more worried about your schools and Universities turning into the streets of Bagdad?

As long as leftist, progressive, fuckwits living in secure gated communities force no-gun zones upon the rest of us...yes.

From a comment...

What happened is what the school and the anti-gun crowd wanted to happen. It translates to power for them. Sound like a harsh judgment? Well, it is. But its still true.

There will more calls to make more people defenseless in more venues and to garner more police power to the state and quasi-state organizations. This happens EVERY time there is a push for more gun control.

It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Less guns and more gun-free venues = more tragedies like this one = more stringent gun laws and more gun-free venues.

Criminals and venal politicians will never give up their desire to enforce their will on the law-abiding. Why should I give up my guns to make that easier for them?

From Kim du Toit -

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."

So, fifty-odd dead and wounded students later, it appears as though the current law does not, in fact, do anything to protect students from someone who wishes to do them harm.

They might have felt safe on campus... but they weren't.

This horrible incident is not a rationale for more gun control; it is a case study of the effects of gun control: providing a murderer with unarmed, helpless victims.

Say Uncle has a roundup and constant updates...as well as Pajama's Media

The gun-grabbers will be happy.

"I hate to say it but it's going to take the kind of massacre that kills lots of children. That's the only way we are going to see progress, "I think it's got to be worse than (Columbine)." - Bryan Jones, director of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy at the University of Washington (Anti-gun organization)

He got his wish.

From a student...

Of all of the emotions and thoughts that were running through my head that morning, the most overwhelming one was of helplessness.

That feeling of helplessness has been difficult to reconcile because I knew I would have been safer with a proper means to defend myself.

I am qualified and capable of carrying a concealed handgun and urge you to work with me to allow my most basic right of self-defense, and eliminate my entrusting my safety and the safety of my classmates to the government.

...and you never hear about the school shootings that were stopped in their tracks by students or teachers with guns.