Over At The New York Times

There's a liveblog (sort of) going on over at the New York Times in celebration* of the Virginia Tech shootings a year ago.  David Codrea, noted gunblogger, is there representing the side of freedom and liberty.  I felt compelled to add a comment, in my Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit guise, to the holier-than-thou bit from the Rev. Alexander W. Evans...to wit:

Who was it that said or sang that we don't put up tombstones for the dead, but for the living? If someone is willing to violate one of the most basic of God's commandments - "Thou shalt not murder," what makes anyone believe that lesser human laws will have any effect on his plans?

It's clear that all of the laws that people beg for after these incidents are nothing more than tombstones for the living - a useless group of talismans that let them think that now they are safe from the forces of evil...and as equally efficacious as the talismans carried by people centuries ago, hoping to ward off the Black Death.  


*Yes, "celebrate."  The NYT revels in any sort of gore that helps it advance its statist, anti-freedom agenda, with a strong emphasis on those areas that make Pennsylvanians like myself bitter - guns, for instance.