While IF THE RIGHT PERSON in one of those classrooms was armed that incident would have stopped right there, but most of the teachers and most of the students aren't that "right person".  I am a firm believer in gun owner's rights, but I recognize that without the proper training and a cold heart, carrying a weapon doesn't help much. There unfortunatly will always be a nut case or two, and if armed resistance was expected, or if firearms were not available, they would probably blow up a crowded lecture hall, or similar event. This is a more common occurence in countries where guns are outlawed. In a free country like ours, the nut case has to actually screw up and kill or attempt to kill a bunch of people before anything can be done. While as all the perpetrators are loosers, loners and the like, it is actually only a minute percentage of the loosers and loners who snap and become murderers, the rest just live miserable lives of desperation. Wrighting dark stories, stalking, and setting fire to one's room in combination is just cause for concern, and should probably come up on one's record for gun purchases, but there are ways to obtain a gun ilegally, or build a bomb, etc. so We are right back where We started.  The people who provide mental help like to believe that these people can be cured, but I am not so sure Myself.

Well the press is calling it the biggest mass murder in US history. The Anti Gun folks are jumping on the band wagon again and preaching doomsday if guns aren't banned.
Funny thing is, I distinctly remember A few planes in 2001 flying into buildings and killing a few thousand people.
They did it with box cutters, a few fake bombs, and illegal passports and or entry.

I did not however see assault box cutters put on the ban list. Or the assault Constantine wire, or other tools the terrorist used.

Once again the political idiots in Washington are seeking an easy way out. Our society has become one of instant gratification, and to appease the masses boxer, schumer and their ilk are beating the gun control drums again.

I don't see em banning the assault baseball bat, or the assault for ranger, or the assualt chair or any other of the myriad of tools used to kill.
No these same idiots want to ban guns, all the while leaving loopholes so that they may protect themselves with firearms either directly or as carried by their security. (as kennedy stated when a gun was found on him, he claimed because he was a "U.S. senator he needed a gun".
I guess kennedy doesn't think anyone else "beneath him in social status" doesn't need the right or ability to protect themselves with a firearm.
That goes for most of the hollywood kooks as well.

they'll point to England and other countrys that have instituded such laws, As I recall, it was bombs in the train stations there, and knives and bats
on a daily basis, as well as guns. Oh and btw, their crime rate has sky rocketed since banning of personnel firearms.
(gas in tokyo, bombs in france, poison for the jim jones idiots, just to name a few more)

So according to Washington we should all lay down our arms and sit around like sheep waiting for slaughter.

So lets all avoid the facts and live in a Boxer fantasy land where all crime is cause by those "evil guns".

Without addressing the root malfunctions in our current social order the tragic events at VT will happen again, only next time it might be a bomb or worse.

Am I the only one that sees this?