Mo' guns, Mo' Problems

Like clockwork, The Crazy People™ are blaming the Viriginia massacre on anti-gun legislation. Virginia has a ban on concealed carried weapons on school campuses which is where all the righties are pointing their fingers. "If the kids at Virginia Tech had been armed and able to defend themselves, this never would have happened!" they say.

And of course, they have a point. Never mind that Virginia has no required waiting period, no required safety course, and not even a requirement that you even have to be a US citizen to buy a gun (which would have prevented this particular incident), the real problem is that all the other students were unarmed.

Think about it, this guy would have been stopped after only the first few killings if someone had been able to shoot back at him. And hey, the September 11th hijackers would have been stopped pretty quick if the airlines didn't have those stupid, commie anti-gun rules that keep you from taking your Glock on the plane with you. If the other passengers had been armed, those guys wouldn't have even made it to the cockpit before someone took them out. Sure you'd have a lot more planes crashing do to all the gun fights that would break out, but at least all the national monuments would be safe. The same is true in the general population. If you just let more people carry guns everywhere, sure there would be a lot more frequent gun use in disputes where fists would otherwise be used, but the enormous increase in small scale shootings would be worth it to prevent the occasional mass murder.