Lost in Virginia

On Monday, Cho Seung-Hui, a 23 year old senior

majoring in English, armed with a 9 mm and

a .22-caliber handgun, murdered 32 students

on the Virgina Tech Campus, before turning the

gun on himself. The media has already begun a

veritable feeding frenzy, barely able to restrain

their explosive post-Anna Nicole Smith glee.

Armed with microphones and very important

hair, on the spot correspondents were

in full tilt boogie mode into the wee hours of the

morning, speculating on the unknowns, and

trotting out a cornucopia of self-proclaimed

"campus security experts", who

assured us that, had they been at the helm of the doomed ship Virginia Tech, things

would have been very different. Protocols would have followed, the campus would have

shut down, and even text messages would have been sent to the students en mass, warning

them that an unknown gunman was on the verge of a full scale rampage.

Baloney. No security protocol, even one involving the combined police forces of the
entire state of Virginia could have succeeded in preventing this horrific incident, and
to have the arrogance to presume otherwise, is at best, naive, and worst, disingenuous
self aggrandizing.

Jack Dunphy, the pseudonym of the hard nose LAPD columnist opined as much on the
pages of NRO, where he wrote;

"There are evil people in the world, and no amount of laws will make them any
less so.There may be a level of security that would deter a suicidal maniac from
carrying out the kind of horrors seen on the Virginia Tech campus Monday morning,
but I doubt anyone would want to attend the school that implemented it. "

Cordially

Joe