Because, you know, it’s easy to bring guns on college campuses.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) North Dakota State University Professor Kevin Thompson says he’s shocked but not surprised by today’s deadliest-ever shooting at a Virginia college campus.

Thompson heads North Dakota State’s criminal justice department and has spent the past month teaching a course on deviant behavior, looking at school shooting rampages.

Thompson says there could be “copy cat” shootings on other college campuses. He says campuses are unsecured environments, and students could easily bring weapons.

The obvious implication here is that because college campuses are “unsecured environments” they should be made more secure.  Prompt liberal college administrators across the country instituting security check points, metal detectors and mandatory person/bag searches.

Now I’ll not dispute that college campuses could use a little extra security (we could start with these jerks who still haven’t been punished for their attack on Jim Gilchrist), but ultimately the best defense for this sort of thing is a good offense.

I know I’m starting to sound like a “more guns” broken record on this Virginia Tech thing, but I just can’t stress it enough.  In a society where the private ownership/carry of firearms were promoted instead of ridiculed we’d have fewer of these school shootings.

Not to mention fewer home invasions, fewer bank robberies, fewer car hijackings, etc.  When the citizenry in general is disarmed the only people who are armed are the police (who can’t be everywhere) and those who have guns for nefarious purposes.  If we all had guns, however, and knew how to use them the bad guys would be outmatched and outnumbered.

That sounds like a good thing to me.  Now get your local gun control nut why the average law-abiding citizen can’t be trusted to carry his/her own firearm.