The Virginia Tech Massacre, and Why You Should Own a Gun By Alan Caruba

"The murders on the Virginia Tech campus, the worst such rampage in our history, might have been mitigated if just one member of the faculty or a student had the means to return fire.

I have owned guns for decades. On rare occasions, I have had to “show” one of my guns to people with bad intentions. Not surprisingly, they changed their plans to take my money and do me some harm. The Virginia Tech murders confirm the value of empowering ordinary citizens to carry a concealed weapon.

On March 9, I learned of a ruling in the case of Parker vs. District of Columbia in which Senior Judge Lawrence H. Silberman wrote an opinion, with Judge Thomas B. Griffith concurring, that restored the Second Amendment to the citizens of the District of Columbia and, by extension, to every citizen of these United States. Not since 1976, had residents of the District had the right to defend themselves with force of arms."

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