More Guns Needed Now

Virginia Tech Massacre

After the worst U.S. shooting rampage in history, one perpetrated by a man -- nothing less than a homespun terrorist -- wearing a tattoo depicting one of the most violent expressions of fundamentalist Islamic iconography (to wit "Ismail Ax"), it may shock some to embrace the surest, soundest solution to prevention of this type of catastrophe in the future: more guns. Specifically, the right of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves with personal handguns. Any one of those 32 killed in Blacksburg could have popped off a shot fast long enough to get the second shot perfect, or to otherwise distract the shooter while others escaped under cover.


Quoting Reuters, advocates of gun ownership rights saw Monday's massacre as evidence of the need to relax gun laws rather than tighten them.

"All the school shootings that have ended abruptly in the last 10 years were stopped because a law-abiding citizen -- a potential victim -- had a gun," said Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America.

"The latest school shooting at Virginia Tech demands an immediate end to the gun-free zone law which leaves the nation's schools at the mercy of madmen."

Virginia Tech Massacre
Ismail Ax
Cho Seung Hui

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