At the heart of the Second Amendment of the Right to bear arms, is the fundamental human right upheld through history of the right to defend ourselves against those who would harm us. For all the arguments against gun control this is the key issue - the right to defend my life, my property against anyone who would try to take it.

Glenn Reynolds today writing today in The Ny Daily News, referencing the fact that Va Tech had recently let a matter drop that would have allowed students to have guns on campus.:

“Virginia Tech doesn’t have that kind of trust in its students (or its faculty, for that matter). Neither does the University of Tennessee. Both think that by making their campuses “gun-free,” they’ll make people safer, when in fact they’re only disarming the people who follow rules, law-abiding people who are no danger at all.

This merely ensures that the murderers have a free hand. If there were more responsible, armed people on campuses, mass murder would be harder.

In fact, some mass shootings have been stopped by armed citizens. Though press accounts downplayed it, the 2002 shooting at Appalachian Law School was stopped when a student retrieved a gun from his car and confronted the shooter. Likewise, Pearl, Miss., school shooter Luke Woodham was stopped when the school’s vice principal took a .45 fromhis truck and ran to the scene. In February’s Utah mall shooting, it was an off-duty police officer who happened to be on the scene and carrying a gun.

Police can’t be everywhere, and as incidents from Columbine to Virginia Tech demonstrate, by the time they show up at a mass shooting, it’s usually too late. On the other hand, one group of people is, by definition, always on the scene: the victims. Only if they’re armed, they may wind up not being victims at all.

“Gun-free zones” are premised on a fantasy: That murderers will follow rules, and that people like my student, or Bradford Wiles, are a greater danger to those around them than crazed killers like Cho Seung-hui. That’s an insult. Sometimes, it’s a deadly one.”

Just as I have said before, it is a fools paradise to believe that gun control stops crime when there is absolutely no statistical evidence to prove otherwise. Criminals - or those who would want to hurt you, or our kids, will continue to do so because no law, restriction will stop a killer from killing or from obtaining the means to do so.

Except a well placed bullet to their head.