***updated: 7:45pm Eastern press conference…law enforcement says it has a “preliminary ID on the shooter”…but they are not prepared to disclose the identity yet…”following up on leads”…”two weapons recovered”…not identifying yet…no one in custody…there is one person of interest who is still of interest…separate from the dead gunman…the person of interest knows one of the victims and is not a student…***

Read this: Stacy McCain hammers ABC News for using the Virginia Tech massacre as an opportunity “to promote irrelevant propaganda about the expiration of the so-called ‘assault weapons’ ban.”

Anti-gunners at MSNBC are piling on, too.

Prepare for much more of this.

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More reax…

Outside the Beltway weighs in on ABC News “jumping the gun.”

Steve at Hog on Ice: Doomed by gun ban.

Reuters: “Campus killings may restart gun violence debate.”

May?