Mark Steyn mentioned this when filling in for Rush on Friday, but there was a college shooting in Virginia prior to the VA Tech massacre, and not far away. It's the school shooting nobody has heard of because it ended so differently. A foreign student had some grievance about grades or something, and went and shot his professor in his office. When he tried to go "at large" with his grievances, two of the students (one of whom a police officer from NC) went and confronted him with guns. That incident ended there with one unfortunate casualty, but no more.
On another point, that I think the Right has ceded when it should not have, and that is that the purpose of the 2nd Amendment is not to protect hunting arms. It's not even necessarily to protect self-defense arms. It exists to protect the right of the citizenry to, if necessary, wage war against the State. Writing the Bill of Rights in the immediate aftermath of struggle against the British Empire, what other purpose could have possibly been in mind? Every time I hear the leftists, or even too often the Fudds on the Right, argue that the Founders could never have foreseen the technological increase in personal firepower I think of this. True enough, I imagine the Founders could not foresee many of the changes in weapon technology. I am equally convinced that they would consider it irrelevant. The real purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to create a major headache for would-be tyrants, whether foreign or domestic.
