I could have predicted this would happen: Virginia shootings focus political campaigns on firearms.
Oh, wait. I did.
The Los Angeles Times story says "The Virginia Tech rampage is likely to focus attention on one of the most emotional issues in modern politics - gun control - at a key moment in the 2008 presidential campaign."
Well, yeah.
The question is, will the political class learn the true lesson of the Virginia Tech massacre - that gun control doesn't work. Virginia Tech's campus was, by law, a gun-free zone. That sounds good in theory, but in the real world it meant that a campus full of more than 25,000 unarmed people was at the mercy of one crazed killer with a gun.
Gun-control gave one killer a decisive advantage over 25,000 people. That's the truth of what happened on the "gun-free" campus of Virginia Tech. More gun-control will only make more people defenseless and lead, eventually, to more gun deaths.
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