First came mourning. Then, at least in the conservative blogosphere, came outrage and speculation: If students at Virginia Tech had been carrying handguns, would this tragedy have happened? Would armed students have killed the shooter, or shooters, within the first few minutes of his rampage?
The Virginia Tech shootings will likely re-energize debate about guns, and conservative bloggers like Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor, have been quick to enter the fray. But many observers have argued that using the day’s events to score political points for one side or the other is unseemly, to say the least.
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