Oh, fine, let's take break to get disgusted at conservatives.

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The meme that the victims were a bunch of mincing cowards too sissified by their liberal environment to attack the gunman bare-handed seems to be rapidly spreading through the other camp. See comments by John Derbyshire, Nathaniel Blake, and Rush Limbaugh (as paraphrased by derspatchel).

Of tangential interest is a striking thought-experiment by bradhicks of what would have happened had any of the students been armed. I have no personal experience with guns or their use, so I don't know how accurate or relevant this is, but it made me think. (Gun control is an issue I stand absolutely neutrally on, and no recent events have changed this.)

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Yeah, as thought experiments go, that one seemed pretty ill thought out and not terribly educated. Or so it seemed to me. I don't know a ton about guns or SWAT operations, but I know enough to think the scenarios presented aren't necessarily the most likely, and certainly not the only ones.