Welcome to Cato Daily Podcast

Daily podcast for Tuesday, May 1st.

This is Anastasia Glova.

In his American Spectator op-ed titled,

They Never Learn, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies,

Bob Levy explains why the response to the Virginia Tech tragedy,

calling for stricter gun control control is wrong-headed and

actually helps create the kind of environment where school shootings can

occur. Bob is the guest on today's podcast. How do the events at Virginia Tech impact the larger debate

about gun control? Well with respect to the impact on our case in DC which is

seeking to overturn the DC gun ban, I think the impact will not be significant

for this reason.

The Virginia disaster is all about people carrying guns outside on campus and elsewhere within Virginia.

Our lawsuit is about people possessing handguns for self-defense within their homes.

So we do not seek in DC any concealed carry license.

We don't seek permission to carry guns on campuses or anywhere else outside of the home.

Now it may be that at some point someone will seek such relief, but our lawsuit does not.

So with respect to the direct tie minimal impact.

But the shooting certainly has given more ammunition so to speak to those arguing for

comprehensive gun bans. That's certainly the case. I think that the argument cuts the

other way. The reason that we had a disaster on the Virginia Tech campus was in

part because a lunatic was able for a long period of time to

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