Bill Steigerwald, associate editor, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, puts the horrible Virginia Tech shooting in its almost-forgotten historical context.
On March 18, 1927, Andrew Kehoe, board member of Bath Consolidated Schools, Bath Township, Michigan, carried out a massacre that killed 45, including 38 grade-school children. Though, unlike Cho Seung-Hui, Kehoe used readily available explosives. Yet, it appears that no one called for bans of explosives as Kehoe was recognized as an aberrant and abhorrent madman.
Crazed murders will always be with us, regardless of any imagined government-run police system. Removing the right to bear arms in order to protect against the next lunatic serves no personal security purpose – as Kehoe aptly proves. Yet, removing the right to bear arms does serve to further metastasize governmental power – as was well understood by our Founding Fathers.
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In a column calling for more gun control, Bonnie Erbe mentions this incident without noticing that it refutes her argument.
The young shooter–& his soon forgotten initially reported partner–who physically did the killing at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute just provide the excuse for elite demands sane respectable gun owners agree to civil dis-armament; the real sociopaths are the beasts running secret government black operations that madden, arm, train & activate these programed shooters imprimis though no matter what may or may not lie behind such events the natural right to effective means of self defence is morally & legally unassailable. Which is why the elite so resolutely arranges these out-rages: it must shock & awe public opinion in viciously cynical expectation the people it aims to enslave will be agitated & terrorized enough after a sufficient number of these enormities to yield their price-less rights.
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