VA Tech - Not In The Playbook, No Manual

If you were to ask yourself last week what place in the US is most likely to experience the worst massacre in American history, what place would you pick? Certainly not a government building these days. Not an airplane anymore. Possibly a church, but only in the North. Most likely you would pick a school. Gov. Kaine places zero blame with the VA Tech administration, saying "nobody has this in the playbook. There is no manual on this." And of course there isn't. Legislation has drawn a strong boundary around schools across the country, forbidding weapons of any kind on campus. Hell, there have been stories of kids having trouble getting fencing equipment (often just called "weapons") on some campuses. And of course, many college campuses are bastions of ultra-liberal thought - the guys who rail against gun owners and ownership in the United States.

In the Art of War, Sun-Tzu said to always attack hardest where your enemy's defenses are weak. Cho Seung-Hui considered the women who despised him and the rich kids who ignored him as the enemy. And there is no greater undefended concentration of them than on a college campus... any college campus.

Next time a teacher, a professor, or a pilot suggests he be allowed to carry a sidearm - let's not dismiss him out of hand this time.