In the end the VT shooter was just another garden variety loner who had flunked his social interaction final. It's a damn shame nobody was able to intervene in his life in some way, but perhaps it's just not possible. Life is unpredictable. Sick and unexplainable crap happens every day and words rarely do it justice, but Michelle offered a few that fit. The blame here goes to nobody but the cowardly Cho.
As the week rolls on the knee jerks will get louder in their calls for government control of our lives. You've probably read about some of them here and especially here, where Charlton Heston was blamed. Bush? Expected. Ben Hur? Wow.
While driving home I caught some of Air America radio to see how they were covering the event. Host Randi Rhodes was suggesting that people should only see their guns when visiting the hunt club. She went on to rail about the "well regulated militia" phrase in the 2nd Amendment while leaving the "right to keep and bear arms" dangling around in the air. To me you can't have one without the other.
These same folks would have no problem stopping a president from fighting the very people who've already proven they want to do exactly what Cho did on a daily basis if left to their own devices. Both Katrina and AQ should be proof enough that Americans need the right to protect themselves, a right guaranteed in the Constitution that we all love.
But obviously the solution is not banning guns. As we saw on 9/11 a couple of Boeing 757s will do just fine if the goal is mass murder. The solution is within the human heart, where the battle between good and evil is a daily struggle. Nothing more.
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