Might I point out that in the killing fields purposely set up by the Virginia Tech Administration and the Legislator of the State of Virginia, that this is the only time in history that law biding citizens are not allowed to have either a gun or a sword to protect themselves or others!
Furthermore, has anyone at all noticed that both at Columbine and Virginia Tech, those people whose sworn responsibility to protect the victims arrive so late as to be only useful body bagging the dead and securing the site so as to dust for finger prints and sweep for fibers.
The first line of defense in a free society is each individual in that society.
Maybe Virginia Tech’s Administration and the government of Virginia might at least have the common decency of letting the students have swords to protect themselves!