"Silencers Cost Lives"

This writer says he is still alive because the mass shooter at Virginia Tech had an unsilenced gun. Hearing the shots gave him time to go out a window and fall 19 feet, to break his leg in two places, but he is still alive. All well and good, but why not consider what would have happened if he had had a legal gun and a carry permit. Instead of taking the coward's way out and breaking his leg, he could have shot the shooter to death as he came in the classroom door and saved a bunch of lives--everybody that shooter killed after coming into his classroom, including a classmate and his professor. But no! Anti-gun fools, which is what this fool seems to be, will never even consider allowing the average law-abiding person to have and use a gun for self defense. He thinks--wrongly--that that person will "go nuts" and shoot somebody over a trifle, while running away leaves others to die by being shot by a gun (legal or illegal) in the hands of a mass shooter while he splits. It's incomprehensible to me why people like this keep trying to violate the Constitution by INFRINGING on a RIGHT guaranteed by that Constitution. I guess they're just that stupid. (USA Today)