The urge of lawmakers amid the unthinkable is to entertain the feel-good notion of legislation that could have prevented the awfulness. The inclination to legislate the worst impulses out of the human condition is understandable in the wake of the horror at Virginia Tech that left 32 dead at the hand of a gun-toting sicko, who then shot himself. But as we know only too well, if only from anecdotal experience, laws have their limits.
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