Democrats Do Something

While the conservative movement wants to blame the Virginia Tech shooting on everything liberal society has ever created (not the individual, of course - they're the party of personal responsibility), the Democrats actually want to do something about it:

Grappling with the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history, lawmakers said Sunday they want to eliminate a gap between state and federal laws that can allow someone with a history of mental illness to buy guns [...]

Seung-Hui Cho, who gunned down 32 people on campus and killed himself Monday, was evaluated at a psychiatric hospital in late 2005 and deemed by a judge to present "an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness." That should have disqualified him from purchasing a gun under federal law, experts say.

But Virginia court officials insist that because the judge ordered only outpatient treatment — and did not commit Cho to a psychiatric hospital — they were not required to submit the information to be entered in the federal databases for background checks.

Lawmakers pushed Sunday to eliminate such breakdowns. They called for uniformity between state and federal reporting to make background checks more dependable.

That's the extent of the lessons that should be learned from this nightmare - fixing the loophole so that the law works the way it was intended. We can all stop pretending we're victims because it's offensive to the real ones, and our media can pack the hell up and go home. But at the very least, we should fix the flaw in the law that enabled this circumstance. That's the response of a political party that actually believes in government and doesn't hold it in contempt.

In short, this is why I'm a Democrat.