Critics of gun control who argued that some of the Virginia Tech killings might have been avoided if students or faculty members had come to their classes armed have not persuaded the U.S. attorney general, Alberto Gonzales. “I don’t think that is the answer, quite frankly,” he said today at a meeting in Oklahoma City on campus security.

According to the Associated Press, Mr. Gonzales said that, instead, existing gun laws should be enforced. “We need to see what we can do as a government — on the federal level, on the state level — to ensure the safety of our students,” he said.

Mr. Gonzales was in Oklahoma City to take part in a task force on campus security that Gov. Brad Henry of Oklahoma organized after the Virginia Tech shootings. —Lawrence Biemiller