This korean kid who shot all those people at Virginia Tech, walked into a store about a month ago and bought his glock and ammo for $571, using a credit card. There was a one minute background check, he was asked sixteen questions (do you have a criminal record? ever used drugs? .etc) He answered no to all questions, and walked right out with his glock pistol and ammo.

This was Virginia where there is no waiting period. If this was new york state or some other states, there is a six month waiting period. But you get conservative states like Virginia and Texas, and they think any waiting period is un-american.

This kid had emotional problems evidently. Was going through a crisis. If there had proper evaluations done, if there had been a proper waiting period, he wouldn't have had that gun yesterday. Or the high powered gun magazines he used. 32 people might well still be alive today.

This should be a campaign issue. Yet gun control laws are now something democrats are not supposed to support if they want to win in red states. If Jim Webb had supported waiting periods or other gun control laws, he might have lost his senate race in virginia. So its either we don't advocate gun control in those states or we lose? This isn't right.