Sorrow at Virginia Tech

I would like to take this time to express sorrow at what happened Monday at Virginia Tech. You know what the news is, but here is a link that may shed light on what actually happened.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/170407Cops.htm

For the most part, the massacre is all about two issues after we get past the fact that police and school officials didn't do their jobs and should face discipline. The cops because they failed to protect students in danger, and school officials because they did too little to protect the students.

The first is gun control. Any sane person knows that any person armed with a gun wouldn't allow others to hurt them. For the most part, self-defense is a valid plea in court and any one of the 60 + shot in the engineering building including the 32 killed, should have been able to use a gun in self defense. The problem, you can't carry a gun on Virginia Tech's campus. And I doubt that any of them got the e-mail from administration about the gunman on the loose because most of them were either getting ready or already in class when he killed for the first time.

The second issue is the anti-depressant drugs that the gunman has been taking. Verbal warning signs not withstanding, the gunman was clearly drugged when he did what he did and some company will likely pay in the form of a lawsuit.

We have wide-open campuses in North Dakota too, but are they safe? It is a question that we need to ask ourselves, but instead of limiting access to grounds such as University of Mary, UND, or NDSU among others, we should allow our college students to carry guns as long as they don't show signs of violence. Virginia Tech University failed to do so and they have paid the price.