Liberals have "peculiar" solutions for dealing with mass murderers: disarmament and surrender.

By now it is well known Virginia Tech campus was "Gun Free Zone."  Such a "concept" is only possible when one of liberalism's cherished nostrums--idealism trumps reality--becomes enacted regulation. No one in their right mind could possibly believe signs which advertise the defenselessness of individuals would accrue to the interest of those individuals. Touting one's vulnerability may work for metrosexuals cruising singles' bars for one-night stands, but it's a dubious security policy for a college campus the size of a small town.  And while it is likely Cho Seung-hui never considered "policy" when he decided go on his murderous rampage, the fact is he didn't have to.

Despite this atrocity, liberals continue to convince themselves that arming the average American would result in wholesale killing. Such nonsense is based on another pillar of liberal orthodoxy: the average American--even one who attends college--is as dumb (and irresponsible) as a box of rocks  Cruel reality? For those "keeping score," on college campuses it's mass murderers thirty-three, responsible, concealed carry permit students, zero. 

Speaking of mass murderers, it's a short ideological journey from VT to the streets of Baghdad, where people with a mindset similar to that of Cho Seung-hui ply their trade with depressing regularity--and where liberals also express a distaste for preventing the mass slaughter of innocents yet unable to defend themselves.  Far better to surrender, head home, and declare the war "lost."  Far better to light candles for the dead--in Virginia and Baghdad--than to abandon bankrupt philosophies about the nature of man and evil which aid and abet homicidal maniacs here and abroad.

Memo to the kumbaya crowd: there is no virtue in victimhood.

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