No major calls for increased gun control as of yet from the netroots. Give them time. They simply will not be able to help themselves, despite the fact that Virginia Tech was a gun-free zone, unless they have properly concluded that irrational calls for tighter gun laws (they would not have changed a thing here) are generally a losing proposition for Democrats trying to make further inroads in red and purple areas.

It appears as though Cho Seung Hui was absolutely determined, whatever the obstacles, to obtain sufficient firepower to carry out a monumental atrocity. The current gun laws and restrictions simply prevented students and professors from carrying a weapon on campus that could very well have dispatched Hui before he could have killed and wounded so many. Tighter gun control laws would almost certainly not stop an individual with Hui's determination, but rather would further handcuff those law abiding citizens who might wish to avail themselves of their Second Ammendment right to defend both themselves, and their fellow citizens, from monsters such as Hui.

And indeed some would like to avail themselves of that right, as evidenced by this (via Glenn):

"It was at this time that I realized that I had no viable means of protecting myself.

Please realize that I am licensed to carry a concealed handgun in the commonwealth of Virginia, and do so on a regular basis. However, because I am a Virginia Tech student, I am prohibited from carrying at school because of Virginia Tech's student policy, which makes possession of a handgun an expellable offense, but not a prosecutable crime.

I had entrusted my safety, and the safety of others to the police. In light of this, there are a few things I wish to point out."

Sounds like a responsible and law abiding individual to me. What if he, or others like him, had stood armed in Hui's path on Monday morning? How many lives might have been saved, and how many less wounded would there be today, if he and/or others were able to neutralize Hui?

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Michelle Malkin with an outstanding piece - "Wanted: A Culture of Self Defense."