From listening to people who've been relentlessly self-promoting their political views for years, I've discovered that events in Virginia Tech are really about too many guns, or not enough guns, or Iraq, or an uncaring society, or an incompetent Va Tech administration, or really whatever happens to be on someone's mind.

Inevitably, questions should be asked about policy changes. Certainly, the people who bear responsibility for making policies should immediately think about how to prevent something in their area of responsibility. But these people who babble on and on are not policymakers, they are heartless bastards who cheapen these people's death to a bullet point in their policy rant before the people have even been buried.

I'd rather hear about the victims who were lost. But what I get is more policy lectures. If I wanted a policy lecture, I'd go watch a movie.

Some rules for the conscience-less:
1. No policy rants before the funerals are over.
2. Think about what you can do in your own life to prevent these things. That is, since you don't have any responsibilities that would put you in a position to make policies to prevent these sort of things, and you don't do anything worthwhile, just contemplate what you would do if a murderer burst unexpectedly upon you and your colleagues to riot in your blood. It is human nature to run from the first gun shot. It is only those who flinch but then turn toward danger who can surely prevent and minimize these tragedies.

I give you as an example the Holocaust survivor who blocked his classroom door so that his students could flee. Why did this man do what he did? Because he had heard enough of such things in his life.