Guns don't belong in the classrooms. They never will. Virginia Tech has a very sound policy preventing same. --Larry Hincker Vice President of University Relations

These things happen everywhere, not just where there's no carry permit.  For goodness sake, anyone who wanted to could carry a gun in the old west and that worked out great in Tombstone.

As for checkpoints, count me as someone who would will take the risk of being threatened by a nut with a gun instead of the risk of the government telling me what I can and can't carry around public places.

If a nutcase wants to kill people and we have checkpoints in Place A, he will go to Place B.  Put them up in Place B, he will go to Place C.  Eventually if you cover QWERTY with checkpoints he'll wander off into the punctuation, and meanwhile we'll all have given up our freedom for illusory safety.

That's SO cool. Violence to solve violence.

Works every time.

Everyone get a nice taste of Iraq today? Cause they live this shiite every day!!!

But permit me to paraphrase Russell Crowe from "Gladiator":

Why in God's good name would any Univ. Professor who is enagged in teaching want students or any non-secuirty to carry guns on campus?  

Mind you, campus security is armed so anyone else should be stopped and questioned as a precaution.

We've all seen the troubled student, the angry student and the mentally disturbed student.

People get provoked.  I've seen professors reject PhD candidates thesis after several years of non-involvement in their development.  Peope's lives get ruined.  They're ill, upset and mad.

Instapundit is a Professor and therefore a prime target of agression.  My goodness Stanford had a professor murdered on campus by an grad student. My wife's dept. had police on alert after threats were made against them.

On the other hand, Virginia's previous school shooting involved a situtation very much like what you consider.  A law student murdered three and injured six after flunking out.

But on the third hand, that shooter was stopped by an armed student.  And on the pinky of that hand, the shooter had run out of ammunition so it might not really matter who stopped him, ...

So what? How many effing gunsssssssss do you need?

In 1996 there was a shocking crime committed in Dunblane, Scotland in which a lone gunman killed 16 school children and their teacher with a legally held fire arm before turning the gun on himself.  But these were not college students - these were five and six year olds.  So the question of the innocent protecting themselves did not come into play here; the debate was all about the gunman.  And what did the British government do?  Did they tighten up gun ownership laws?  Reassess how they ascertained suitability for ownership of fire arms?  No.  They instead formed a blanket ban, making it illegal for any individual to own a fire arm - a law which stands to this day.  A couple of years ago , I heard a report on gun crime in the UK.  Since handguns and weapons above a certain calibre were banned, gun crime has gone up by more than 500%

My father owned handguns, which I remember were kept throughout my childhood in a locked metal cabinet in our home.  In 1996 I was just old enough to have been to the range a couple of times and fire some handguns.  When the law making it illegal for individuals to own guns came into effect, my father went to the local police station and handed his guns in.  However, not everybody did; a huge number went 'missing' and the government went from knowing where all legally held firearms were to having a vastly increased number of guns in unknown locations in the country.