Now that's a confusing hunk of machinery.

O.K., the Virginia thing. One - "he was a loner". No! Really?!?

Two - the amazing stupidity of the "gun people". "If more people'd'a bin carryin' guns, there'd'a bin a lot fewer daid." People actually wrote in to the New York Times's "Comments" page associated with their articles on the event saying that.
Would it be so terrible to at least have a minimum I.Q. requirement for gun ownership? Nothing too strenuous - just higher than that of the average small mammal.