Via Wonkette, aka Ana Marie Cox, over at Swampland…   John Derbyshire farts on the dead at VA Tech…

Spirit of Self-Defense [John Derbyshire]

As NRO’s designated chickenhawk, let me be the one to ask: Where was the spirit of self-defense here? Setting aside the ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals, why didn’t anyone rush the guy? It’s not like this was Rambo, hosing the place down with automatic weapons. He had two handguns for goodness’ sake—one of them reportedly a .22.

The other was a nine millimeter Glock.  Yes, in fact you Can hose down a place with a semi automatic handgun.  Ask me how I know.  And according to news accounts, he had a lot of ammo with him.

At the very least, count the shots and jump him reloading or changing hands. Better yet, just jump him.

You’re a kid sitting peacefully in class and then someone bursts in and starts shooting.  Never mind you have not clue one at that point what kind of gun it is, let alone how many rounds it can hold.  Never mind the blast of even a small caliber handgun inside a closed space can be positively disorienting.  Never mind that with practice you can drop the clip on that Glock and have another in it and a round chambered faster then someone could probably rush you unless you were practically standing right over them.  Just fucking for once in your life try to put yourself in someone else’s place you drooling soulless right wing babbling moron.  You’re a kid…you are in class peacefully going on about your school day and then suddenly you and your classmates are being shot at.  By the time the first few shots are fired your thoughts are a frightened scrambled mess.  Count?  Count?  Grow a fucking brain Derbyshire, you pathetic warrior male wannabe.

Handguns aren’t very accurate, even at close range. I shoot mine all the time at the range, and I still can’t hit squat.

Why is that not surprising.  I shoot mine all the time too John, and I figure I’m not all that exceptional at hitting what I’m shooting at, because most of the other folks at the range there with me usually do too.  But you probably think the gun adds several inches to your dick and that’s why you’re not really working it.  You think just holding it in your hand makes you something.  No.  It doesn’t.  It’s just a damn gun and you’re still the sorry brain dead soulless asshole you were before you picked it up.

Yes, yes, I know it’s easy to say these things: but didn’t the heroes of Flight 93 teach us anything?

Moron!   Asswipe!  The people on Flight 93 were grown Adults dealing with a situation that allowed them the means to find out what was happening to them (via their cell phones) and time to get themselves organized and together.  And their attackers didn’t have guns, only crude knifes.  The passengers of flight 93 had a chance the kids at VA Tech never did.

Point of fact, I read of at least one adult, a professor, who seems to have actually tried to save as many of his kids as he could, by staying behind and trying to block the doorway as his kids jumped out the classroom windows.  Apparently the killer managed to get in anyway because that professor was one of the dead.  But he stayed behind to try and save some of his kids.  There’s a hero.