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It's Conditional

My condolences to the families and loved ones of all the Virginia Tech students affected by today's tragedy. We will never know if this national heartbreak could have been averted if one young man who felt entitled to the kind of male privilege which says "a woman does not have independent agency and therefore belongs to someone and if that someone isn't me lots of people will pay" had been better educated on the personhood of women, or merely if he just didn't have such easy access to firearms. Feminism is a long-term educational process, but it seems that well-regulated weapons should be a no-brainer. It's clearly stated in the Bill of Rights as the pre-condition for the right to bear arms. Whoever this unbalanced young person was, he almost certainly was not well-regulated.