Disarmed citizens massacred once again

Disarmed by liberal gun control, at least 32 students and faculty of Virginia Tech were murdered by a gunman today. We see these massacres over and over, from Columbine to Luby's, and they all have two important things in common. First, the victims have invariably been disarmed by unconstitutional gun control laws, and second, liberals invariably call for more gun control.

Every person is born with the innate right to the most effective self-defense possible. That right is one of the reasons for the 2nd Amendment, and the most effective self-defense possible is defense with a firearm. But liberals have chosen to unconstitutionally disarm the citizens of America, forcing them to face stronger and better armed attackers without the most effective self-defense possible.

Often liberals claim the common good as overriding the right of armed self-defense. But no issue, not even the mythical common good, can override a person's innate right to effective self-defense. Nor can anybody explain how forcing citizens to face attackers unarmed serves the common good anyway. How do the deaths of disarmed citizens assist the common good, liberals?

It goes without saying that the police cannot protect everybody. Today's massacre is tragic and unnecessary proof, and it would have ended much differently had the students and staff been armed. Even if possible for police to protect everybody, nobody would want to live that way, and it wouldn't override the innate right to effective self-defense anyway. Liberals understand this as well as anybody, yet they persist, successfully disarming citizens and cheering about making them easy targets for murderers.

And the inevitable result of liberals' successful assault on personal freedom and responsibility is massacre after massacre that could have been avoided had the citizens involved been armed. Liberals share the blood of these massacre victims, and all disarmed victims of violence, with the perpetrators.

Just over a year ago, Virginia General Assembly quashed a bill allowing citizens with concealed carry permits to carry handguns on campus.