> The killer chose his terrain well. Unarmed victims are certainly
> preferable to the other kind.
>
> In most of Virginia, he wouldn't have made it through his first clip.
I can assure, he did not choose his "terrain" for that reason, nor did the thought of his being shot by a vigilante ever cross his mind. The guy killed *himself*, for crying out loud--he was suicidal. I don't really support gun control efforts, because (1) I think its ability to control the prevalance of guns in American society is slight and to control crime itself nil; and (2) gun prohibitions will likely just result in the incarceration of more poor black people (i.e., it will be enforced in the same political manner as drug prohibition), but I can't for the life of me tolerate the plethora of nonsensical arguments from pro-gun people, such as that increased gun ownership by "law abiding" people will deter gun crimes (committed by "criminals") from occurring or save lives. They are nauseatingly inane. Indeed, although we don't know yet, I suspect the shooter in the Virginia Tech killings was a "law abiding" gun owner right up until the moment he killed 32 people, not counting himself.