Virginia Tech and Guns...

First of all, my thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by the horrible tragedy at Virgina Tech. Inevitably, any time that there's an incident involving guns the media turns to and highlights the gun debate - and they tend to steer the discussion towards the two extremes: abolish 'em altogether or M1 Abrams in every driveway. CNN.com, for example, had commentaries (both interesting reads) by gun-rights advocate Ted Nugent and gun-control advocate Tom Plate. Personally, I'm somewhere in the middle. In fact, I think a lot of average Americans are somewhere in the middle on the gun issue, but we rarely hear in the media that there could possibly exist a middle ground. I guess it's the extremes that sell newspapers, and any sensible debate be damned...