Republican and Conservative political analysis and commentary

Good. Use this tragedy as a vehicle for promoting your political beliefs. I'm sure the lion's share of the responsibility for this lies with policy makers. Surely the best way to combat such violence is to simply give everyone a gun. Problem solved.

Look, it's not the guns that cause this.

It's all those people that are lonely, sick, feel trapped.

We all know one. Take this time to give them a call:

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You are exactly right! Gun free zones and other gun controls are recognized by law abiding people only.
Considering how well we controlled alcohol in the past and drugs now, how would some of your stupid, liberal responders keep guns away from criminals ang kooks?

It is not disputable that you have the right to defend yourself. NOONE is going to provide this protection for you. And that is the purpose of the second amendment, to provide you with the right to protect your own life and the lives of your loved ones. Had someone nearby the killer aimed and fired at him, many lives could have been saved, that too is not disputable.
You can bet this clown had either a history of mental problems, or a long rap sheet. And you can bet it was lenient, liberal views that allowed him to be walking the streets and campuses freely.
The kumbaya crowd actually believes taking guns away from good people will prevent bad people from using them. Ridiculous.

Why do those of you on here, that believe this viewpoint to be wrong, actually believe it to be wrong? Is there a solution out there, other than English style gun control and upholding the 2nd Amendment, that no one has seen yet?

Until some of those on the left side of the aisle decide to come up with a better solution than the two mentioned above, I personally will be carying my Glock 22 .40 caliber pistol fully loaded and ready to defend myself and those who choose to live passively and not carry a personal defense weapon.

If we, as a country and a society, are going to ban personal defense weapons, or restrict law abiding citizens from the right to bear arms, then we should ban the use of baseball bats, knives of all types and sizes, kitchen utensils, farm and gardening tools, automobiles, tall buildings, and any other object or implement of murder used throughout history...

Think about the criminal not the implement used to commit the crime...accountability should be our catch-word, not restriction or regulation!!!

Great tact and sensitivity. I'm sure the families of the victims will find this an efficient and enlightening use of the massacre as political commentary.

"...thanks to the misguided efforts of liberal policymakers who thought making an entire community a "gun-free zone" would make it safe."

Yes, blame "the liberals." Perhaps point out a few specific names as well, so it doesn't seem as if you doling out unreferenced labels while participation in blatant political exploitation of a tragedy ...

^pardon the bad grammar

All of you conservative morons need to shut the hell up and stop using this horrific event as your pulpit to preach your bulls**t from. As stated above by someone else, I am sure all the families of the victim's will really appreciate you using the events occuring on the worst day of their lives for your personal gain and preaching.

it's people like you that keep the country f***ed. enjoy! you deserve it

Take it easy on Elephantbiz and his backwoods ways. I'm sure this incident brings back all kinds of memories from his younger days -- a disaffected, alienated, friendless, not particularly bright kid, at a third rate school, but happy to get away from his family -- a dad that didn't care about him, a mom that was overbearing and that he hated. He sat in his dorm room alone, wishing that he could be like the more popular guys -- maybe especially charismatic or charming, a leader in the classroom, maybe an athlete, or maybe just someone that had some friends. The toll of living with guys like this, guys that he wanted to be but just couldn't, was great. He couldn't quite understand why his underwear got a little tighter when he thought of these guys, he preferred to dream about if only things were different, if only the pretty girl in his history course would see the light and realize that the acne scarred, poorly dressed, greasy headed boy in the back needed to be rescued by her, and then everything would be OK. As he got older, he still hoped for a dream girl, and fought the feelings that he'd get when he saw certain guys. He was intellectually and physically incapable of defending himself (of being a man) from perceived threats -- heck, he rarely left his room in the boarding house. But he thought he'd get a gun. THEN people would fear him, then they'd realize that he was not to be messed with. He'd be protected. He pulled the gun out at night, and felt that familiar tightness in his underwear. He watched rap videos and pulled the gun from his holster. Finally, he went to the shooting range. He had never hunted before, never really knew even how to shoot a gun, but he found some like minded souls attention-starved souls at the range that were happy to take Elephantbiz in. They shared the experiences of being laughed at, even worse, being ignored. But now they had a cause. It's what the founding fathers wanted, they told themselves. But the founding fathers didn't envision college campuses being turned into massive crime scenes, they couldn't possibly imagine drive by shootings that left innocent babies dead. But Elephantbiz had something to hold on to now, he was a man, he had hatred and he had his manhood in the form of cold hard metal. Nobody would laugh at him anymore, nobody would ignore him. He had a gun and he was finally a man.

Liberal are using this tragedy as a platform for gun control. Right thinking Americans need to defend their rights. The liberal media would have you think lack of gun laws are the reason this happened. Could it be that there are evil people in the world? If I went down to my local grocery store and killed 10 people with a shovel would there be a cry for shovel control? A gun is a tool. One good lawbiding person with a gun could have stopped this evil,however it is illegal to carry a gun on campus. Perhaps too much gun control is to blame for this! You have one nut out of thousands. Do not blame lawbiding citizens for what one mental case did. CRIMINALS BREAK LAWS.MENTALLY DISTURBED PEOPLE COMMIT ATROCITIES. If you take away my ability to defend myself and my family then I become a victim.

Yeah, Doug, you would have been a big hero if you were 19 and at Tech, with your gun. You would have saved all of their lives.

Our undeniable rights of Natural and Constitutional Law that are not subject to the spineless whims of the disloyal have now been proven suicidal by any reasonable standard of conscious thought. They can no longer feign ignorance as the proof is at Virginia Tech as it is at every other school shooting since the mainstream media proudly announced, for an entire week, that our schools were "gun-free zones". We can not continue to allow the only practical means of self-defense lay exclusively in the hands of the offender, the murderer(s). We must defend ourselves!

Evil and insanity knows no bounds of race or religion. It can not be legislated to stop nor predicted in event other than sometime, someplace in the future it will certainly occur again as we have witnessed firsthand.

Therefore, we demand that the citizens of the United States are not sheep to be slaughtered for the disloyal 'feelings of safety' by politicians or the otherwise suicidal Ghandi's that have conspired with every murderer. Their shared guilt of each victim who has fallen to the attacks are due directly by their denial of our rights as the share all fallen victims in any place also deemed "anti-rights zone".

Stop the slaughter! Immediately contact your representatives and rightfully demand we will no longer be subject to the mental retardation in the loss of life where we will defend ourselves from those who would take it from us.

Another douche!

This is from a report onthe previous college shooting in the region - just down the road at Applachian School of Law. Unlike Blacksburg, students resisted - and one was armed. Note the difference in results.

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We were located in the classrooms just across from where the first professor was shot. We heard the first three shots. At the time, we didn't really know that it was gunfire. Just a few seconds later, we heard the next three shots, followed by some screams. Another student and I went into the hallway. We ran into a professor and he said that Peter (the gunman) was in the building and that he was shooting. So I ran back to the classroom and, what students were left, I said you all need to get out -- there's a shooter in the building.

"We exited out the back stairwell of our building. As I exited, that day I was running a little late, so I did park in a faculty parking spot, which put my vehicle between me and the shooter. We saw him in the front yard there. I stopped at my vehicle and got my handgun out.

"As we approached Peter, I started giving him a lot of verbal commands. ... I told him to drop his weapon, to get on the ground. ... His back was to us, and once he turned around and saw that I had a weapon, he laid his weapon down and stuck his hands in the air. At that time we approached him, and there was somewhat of a struggle, but we took him to the ground and handcuffed him until the authorities got there."

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So much for Gun Free zones.

A more likely scenario with guns on campuses is one of you losers accidentally blowing your pecker off.

Real nice - I see you left good contact info too. IF this is the extent of your argument, you lose. Thanks for making it stunningly easy.

I'll give you more of a response thn you warrant:

You know how many self-inflicted wounds there were in the by permit holders? Best research indicates ZERO in states with the statistics - places where there is a lot of carry - like Texas.

QED you lose. Now get off line - the middle school library needs other students to use their computer.