The Washington Post is shocked that the Virginia Tech massacre hasn’t led to more gun restrictions.
Over the six full legislative sessions since Seung Hui Cho’s rampage left 32 dead, it is gun rights, not gun restrictions, that have grown stronger.
Gilbert, a former Shenandoah Valley prosecutor and the deputy majority leader in Virginia’s House of Delegates, is a big reason why.
Gilbert saw the destructive power of guns in criminal hands, and his antidote is keeping them in good hands. When he arrived in the House of Delegates the year before the Virginia Tech shooting, he started with a bill that would have allowed students 21 or older with a permit to bring concealed handguns to class.
It failed. But Gilbert and his allies have had a series of wins in the years since: They dropped the state’s one-gun-a-month limit on purchasing handguns. They allowed concealed firearms in bars and restaurants, and guns in glove boxes.
“All the members of this place try to oversimplify everything all the time. I know it’s a complicated issue,” Gilbert said. “But I’ve just never seen how disarming law-abiding people made anybody safer.”
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/after-va-tech-a-long-struggle-over-gun-laws/2014/02/11/21e899d0-8e86-11e3-b227-12a45d109e03_story.html
I hope we keep on winning. Wear the gun-friendly zone T-Shirt wherever you go.
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Gregory Smith