I'm not talking about the two hours between the recent tragic shootings. I'm referring to the two hours between Blacksburg (Tech's town) and Grundy, Virginia, home of the Appalachian Law School.

In 2002 a man who had flunked out of law school opened fire at Appalachian, killing three. He could've killed dozens like Cho Seung-Hui at Virginia Tech, but two students were able to obtain their guns and stop the assailant.

VA Tech, being a public school, was bound by the "gun free zone" statue upheld by Virginia's Attorney General just last year. That means only criminals can have guns on the Hokie campus, unlike at the private institute in Grundy.

We saw the same situations at other "gun free zones" (all schools). Two young maniacs in 1999 at Columbine killed a dozen, and wounded two dozen, and in 1998 two younger maniacs in Jonesboro, Ark killed five and maimed 15.

But in similar incidents the toll was not so high. In 1997, in Pearl, MS just two were killed because a vice principal was able to retrieve his gun and stop the perpetrator. In 1998 in Edinboro, PA, the shooter was only able to kill one before being stopped by an armed citizen. The difference? Someone besides the criminal had a gun.

It's clear in the wrong hands guns kill, but in the right hands (of citizens), GUNS SAVE LIVES - often dozens at once.

It would be strange how silent the media is when it comes to incidents like in Grundy, Pearl, or Edinboro now, except the major media only reported that the shooter at Grundy was "tackled" by other students until the "minor detail" of students getting their guns was revealed at the trial. Typing any of those cities into a search engine will show how the media squelches the accounts where guns saved lives. The anti-gun agenda of the media is obvious. Perhaps such irresponsible writers should be registered by the government and required to keep trigger-locks on their pens.