To Tecumseh and crazed ss and all other interested parties:
I can't let you get away with equating the travesty at Virginia Tech as the cost of the uninfringed keeping and bearing of arms. Sure, Cho was able to keep and bear an arm, but because of the unconstitutional law, none of his victims - all apparently law abiding - weren't allowed to keep and bear arms where they met their demise. Cho ignored the unconstitutional law, took his arm to the scene, and perpetrated his massacre of the disarmed. Cho broke unconstitutional law and none of his victims did. Cho also broke much constitutional law with his murderous acts.
Unconstitutional Gun Control Laws are the culprit here. Yes, there is no way to prevent someone like Cho from attempting such acts, but there is a way to DEFEND against such acts. When you cut that defense off at the door, or the parking lot, or the borders of a campus and such, you grant an impunity to the Cho's of the world to run amok with anarchy.
However many may be killed or injured in the time it takes someone to draw and shoot back might be a price of the right to keep and bear arms - if the perpetrator even chooses to act without impunity - but the tens of deaths at Virginia Tech are a direct result of the unconstitutional law forbidding the law abiding from having the means to defend themselves.
Don't forget that Cho should have been institutionalized in the first place. This fact takes the deaths out of the purview of any consequence of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms altogether, doesn't it!
You must keep this all in perspective - unless, of course, if you wish to keep the right shrouded in darkness, misconception, and unwarranted derision.
Woody