First, thoughts and prayers to the student body, families, faculty, and staff of VTech. How horrible. How needless. How sad.
I followed this story all day yesterday. Michelle Malkin (first and second) and Hotair (Allahpundit and Bryan) are really …

If we can’t blame Muslims for this tragedy, then who can we blame? Even before the bodies were cold, a number of conservative bloggers already had the answer: liberals.

Unfortunately, THIS is what happens:
Massacre at Virginia Tech:
33 Confirmed Dead
Gunman’s Body Disfigured; Hard to Identify
By NED POTTER, DAVID SCHOETZ, RICHARD ESPOSITO and the staff at ABC News
April 16, 2007 — A tranquil college campus i…

A horrific tragedy has just occured at Virginia Tech:
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history. The gunman was killed, but it w…

Today’s shooting at VaTech has people talking. A friend of mine in Atlanta sat on AIM and instant messaged me every time the body count changed. Students at VaTech are talking about the outrage they feel because classes weren’t canceled…

Let’s start here: the Chinese national, believed to be the gunman that killed 32 people at the Virginia Tech. campus today before killing himself, may have been here on a student visa. It seems he argued with his girlfriend over

BTW, the shooter, Peter Odighizuwa, was a Nigerian. If it turns out that the VA Tech shooter is what the rumors say – a Mainland Chinese – then, well, what does this say?

Michelle Malkin has lots of coverage of today’s shooting at Virginia Tech, including a chilling e-mail from someone in targeted classroom:Finally one of the guys in the front of the classroom was brave enough to get up and move the…

Mike Kinsey explains how armed students and faculty at Virginia Tech could have stopped the shooter … if only Virginia Tech hadn’t been a gun free zone. Incidentally, where was this “Asian” shooter from? I wonder if he was Pakistani or Indonesian? Wa…

For the most comprehensive coverage of this tragedy see the local Roanoke Times.It will take some time to load because of unexpected traffic.UP

Allahpundit is following closely. So far the shooter is described as an Asian man in his 20’s. No word yet on motive, but the shooter is reported to be dead. Derek O’Dell, a student who was shot in the arm,…

The question then becomes how, in a world with guns, people maximize their own safety. The one thing I do know is that we probably don’t maximize our own safety by rendering ourselves helpless.

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Penn and Teller on Gun Control (28:00 video) Severe Language Advisory applies.

As the point has been made any number of times before, in events like

Bad news for me. PECO (my utility company) says the power could very well be out for four days! Which means blogging will be a major pain in the ass. I’m sitting here at the nearest WIFI spot, and lucky…