I’m got a lot of patience and a loooooooong fuse when it comes to people who have experienced personal tragedy, but I’ve gotta tell you … that fuse is gone. I’m totally sick of the Cindy Sheehanization of the Virginia Tech Massacre. Complete moral authority regardless of how wrong you are. I’m very sorry for your loss, now shut up and stop grandstanding atop the victims bodies:

Despite pleas by Tech families, Va. panel rejects gun bill:

“Please don’t say these innocent lives were lost,” said Lori Haas of Richmond, whose daughter Emily survived two shots in her head, speaking to the committee. “They weren’t lost; they were killed by a sick person who should not have had that gun. Every one of you sitting here today can prevent someone else from suffering this anguish.”

Um hello? I’d like an order of Reality with some “know-what-you’re-talking-about-before-opening-your-mouth” on the side?

Republicans on the panel and gun rights lobbyists voiced sympathy for the victims but said the Tech parents’ efforts are misdirected. Cho did not buy the two pistols he used at Tech at guns shows. He bought one from a pawnbroker, the other online, and passed background checks both times.

“Gun shows are not part of what happened there,” said Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, who accused gun control advocates of using the Tech tragedy to advance their cause. “Some of those who are not in favor of guns saw this as an opportunity to open up the toy box.”

What! Imagine my shock! Somebody using a personal tragedy to advance a misguided agenda! That’s a funny toy box, it has the word “pandora” written on the side.

Note to moral high-horse trotters: The ability to purchase a firearm is not a “loophole”, it’s a right. Now for the sake of the victims, the taxpayers, and yourselves, shut up and think without bias before mounting your aforementioned vertically augmented equine. Thank you, that is all.