I heard someone on CNN make that comment on Monday afternoon.

Jist was that weapons were prohibited on almost all public school campuses in VA (my home state). In fact, my father is on the advisory committee for the school of Natural Resources at VT, its where he got his Master's, and despite all this, my little sister is starting there in the fall. It hits pretty close to home.

Anyway, jist of the report was how many lives would/could have been spared if someone was armed and could of stopped him? I was suprised to hear this coming from a CNN reporter.

I don't think we will see much happen in the wake of this with regards to gun laws. This guy was totally clean, bought the guns legally. Passed the background checks (and VA has a pretty tough requirement, VA residents can only purchase guns in VA due to our more comprehensive background check system). The Brady Campaign gave us a C-, just because we don't make people wait one way or the other, and also because we allow assault weapons and concealed carry.

Long and short of it is, this guy was a few rounds short of a full magazine. This could of happened anywhere, Harvard, Stanford, or your local community college. And he could have made a bomb, or used a chainsaw almost as easily as he did a gun.

No matter how you slice it, its a tradgedy. However, far more people died April 16th in traffic accidents than at the end of a gun in Blacksburg. If the anti-gun community was really about stopping needless death, they would be lobbying congress to outlaw recreational driving.