Wolcott on Virginia Tech

How utterly, undivinely gauche of the press corps and certain uncouth bloggers to raise the issue of gun control in the shattered aftermath of a gunman's rampage that resulted in the slaughter of 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech, with the gunman's own suicide tacked on as the final dot. Only those callow souls looking to exploit tragedy and score political points would think that the latest and most horrible murder spree would somehow be connected to the proliferation of firearms in our culture. To Second Amendment fanatics, the only answer to gun violence is yet more guns, more people packing sidearms to gun down would-be assailants, the decorous streets of Baghdad, Baltimore, and Philadelphia providing such heartening support for this more-guns-equals-more-security thesis. (emphasis mine)