By Gerard Valentino

There can be little doubt that gun control debate in the United States is far from over. Even with Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton refusing to admit their continued willingness to kneel at the altar of gun control, there can be little doubt they will work to disarm honest Americans if elected.

Everyone who takes the time to objectively investigate the gun control issue is forced to admit that it has been a dismal failure, and Americans have only one group of people to blame for that failure. It isn’t the gun control schemers, or even anti-gun mayors who are willing to sue the gun companies for the sins of common criminals. Oddly enough, it isn’t even the criminals who can be held responsible only for their own brutal actions, but not for the thousands of Americans who were disarmed in the face of senseless attacks.

Only one group can lay claim to holding the key to falling for the gun control con and then not doing enough to fix the damage – our nation’s legislators.

They are the only people who have acted in complete disregard for the safety of honest people by passing laws that took away the best tool of self-defense, the firearm.

Keep Your Hands Off My . . . Burdens.

By John Longenecker

Numerous articles are surfacing in support of concealed carry of handguns for students, faculty and visitors. I support Concealed Carry Of Weapons [CCW] for students and visitors, but not for faculty.

Faculty is too ever-present and recognizable. All a shooter need do is identify them and avoid them. Liberty enthusiasts observe that it is yet another freezing out of the individual citizen – the supreme authority in all things in this country – and a return to centralization of power collected away from the constituent. It just means more dependency on officials and a denial of our carrying our own burdens.

Articles oppose CCW for the silliest of reasons, namely how uncomfortable they feel, how they fear shootings from drunk or otherwise impaired students, accusations of settling dispute sin anger. Even the Virginia Tech Review Panel gets it wrong when it cites intoxicated police as its best evidence example of how guns and alcohol don't mix. They don't, but armed citizens do mix with any human endeavor. Virginia Tech is hardly the model of how to complete the assignment and hand it in. Since when is discomfort a measure of a civil right? Since Independence impeaches the need for liberals and earns them the social disrespect they suffer.