Until faculty & students alike realize that they themselves, personally and if need be up-to-their-elbows in bloody fighting, are ultimately the ONLY defense they can really count on, the world will continue to see self-elective soft targets preyed upon.

When the VT Administration self-selected their faculty and students to be sitting ducks, these groups of people should have reacted.

They did not and many died without any legal opportunity to defend themselves.

It is stunning how the heros of VT stood out from the sheeple – the scared reactive waiting to die, run away sorts are a sad background to the few who even with little more than their bodies tried to protect them.

Maybe not every college student has thought through scenarios like this. I know that if a situation is such that I will likely die, it surely will NOT be trying to run away or cowering.

Then I’ve mixed into my education the completion of self defense the ancient greeks considered worthy of including in the idea of University. Theirs was a not an artficial world of defenseless sheeple, but included the physical & self-defense regime to be effective in body as well as mind.

We’ve lost this somehow. And VT was a wake up call that we need it back, now.

Give us the ROTC men & women, trained and armed.

Why would we entrust an $12/hour security guard to carry a weapon while denying the same right to our societies brightest and best?

Repeal the bad social engineering that has made every school a soft-target.

We will never stop the mentally ill who crave their “death by cop” like happened at VT, but keep me armed and in place and I’ll do my best to make sure scum like our VT nutcase get their wish BEFORE innocents die.

The true problem in the Virginia Tech shootings is that this campus in Blacksburg, VA is a “gun free zone”. Yes, even though the Bill of Rights protects our right to bear arms, founders Thomas Jefferson and George Mason publicly spoke over and over again of our right to bear arms, legislatures across this country find it necessary to ban weapons from school campuses, thus making them safer they say. Tell that to the families of the victims at Columbine and the Amish school in Pennsylvania last year. The truth is not allowing legal concealed carry laws on campuses is making schools less safe. How easily could the Virginia Tech massacre have been curbed if a student was on campus legally carrying a weapon and shot the crazed lunatic before he was able to kill more victims?

Its a simple premise. Mass murderers prefer the targets that can’t shoot back. Who would of thought? School campuses have become to mass murderers what a buffet is to Rosie O’Donnell. The so called gun free zones are only gun free for the students who follow the laws.

John Lott and Bill Landes found in a study of all public, multiple shootings in America between 1977 and 1999 that concealed carry laws have an extremely positive effect. States allowing citizens to legally carry concealed weapons deterred mass murders by 60% and the number of murders in these incidents were curtailed by 80%.

I think more Americans should be appalled at the legislatures across this country that continue to try and remove our right to bear arms, and appalled at the fact that some states and institution are under the illusion that they have the right to tell a law abiding citizen that they can’t carry a gun. Who knows, one day a legal gun carrier could save your life.