Virginia vs. Iraq

[Alex]

There are some for whom what scaeagles said seems painfully obvious and self evidence. There are others for whom it is equally obviously and self evidently bat**** insane.

But the two extremes that seem incontrovertable are:

1. If everybody on campus Monday was armed he would have killed many fewer than 32 people.

2. If absolutely nobody on campus Monday was armed he would have killed many few than 32 people.

The worst combination would seem to be 1 mass murderer with guns while nobody else has any.

So, from a strictly logistical perspective, it is easier to have more (non mass murderers) gun carriers about or to guarantee that no mass murderer has guns?

There's a certain logic to it. Me? I'd pass a constitutional amendment altering the 2nd amendment and then ban the manufacture of handguns beyond the needs of military and law enforcement and outlaw private ownership of handguns.

If that isn't going to happen (and it isn't likely) then maybe having more armed sane people makes sense (that's the normal response, in the form of police, to outbreaks of violence anyway).