Outrage and horror

Like most of the country I'm horrified by the tragic mass murders at Virginia Tech. Thirty three dead, mostly young students. One unhappy, crazed individual got a gun and went wacko. "Guns don't kill people, people do" is one blithe saying, "he could have used an axe or a knife" is another. No, there's no way that many people would have been killed without a gun. These simple hand guns turned into weapons of mass destruction. The guns weren't used for "protection" or for game hunting, they were used to hunt down and kill other human beings. We need gun control and we need it now, before the next slaughter of innocents.