Massacre at Virginia Tech

I am so angry today. In Virginia, 31 students were shot by another young man who decided to take his own life. Police officers go running into harm's way to try to save some young college students. We hear students on CNN and their voices are shaking as they try to answer media questions.

Why am I angry? Because three weeks ago I hosted a conversation on campus about guns on campus. The question, debated by a NRA lobbyist and a former Police Chief, was whether guns should be allowed on campus. At this conversation, the NRA jackass - wearing his fabulous $1K suit - brags about his ability to force campuses, specifically University of Utah, to allow students to have guns; he brags about the mortar launcher he has in his back yard, he brags about how much power the NRA has.

That MF. Here we are, half a month or so later, 32 students later, and this jackass is PROUD of what he did? I teach on a campus. And now I have to worry about some idiot coming in with a gun that the NRA says he has the right to have on campus to kill me and my students. And of course, checking the NRA website periodically throughout the day results in no reading of a statement from that interest group about how they feel about this.

But I know the argument they will say: if only all the students had guns, then someone could have taken him down.

Another banner day in America.