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The terrible shooting on that Virginia campus are probably going to promote more gun control. Now, I support gun control, but the dirty little secret is that with all those guns out there, you won't be able to keep them from criminals. Look at the Philippines, where Marcos banned guns and yet killings don't stop. Indeed, most middle class families have their gun well hidden in case of thieves. (No, we don't. I made Lolo give away his WWII submachine gun when he had his stroke).

The best thing to do in this case is pray for the families of those hurt or killed.

African economies are growing...at least some are...doesn't get many headlines, although Tom Friedman had an editorial on the "pay only" NYTimes last week about Kenya.

Wesley Smith points out that disability groups are the main obstacle in stopping euthanasia movement in the USA...don't blame them. The dirty little secret is that a small percentage of docs are sociopaths or dislike "useless eaters".

Speaking of medicine, Publius Pundit has some Cuban Clinics that Michael Moore seemed to have missed...LaCucaracha! LaCucaracha!

Powerline discusses a story about Congressmen using their vacation to become educated on world hotspots...checking "port security" in places like Trinidad and the Virgin Islands, not to mention London and Brussels.....
What? No Senators interested in investigating terror threats in Boracay? They could get a decent room for a tenth of the Caribbean resort while investigating the nearby oil spill...volcanos, mudslide, terrorism and of course extrajudicial kilings of all sorts....ooops...if they did that they'd have to work...