The reactionaries were out in force in the wake of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech.

Walrus-like television shrink and dispenser of dubious advice "Dr. Phil" McGraw claimed video games were to blame for Cho Seung-Hui's rampage. In fact, so far there's been nothing to suggest the crazed killer that called himself Ismail X played video games at all.

Meanwhile, former Los Angeles Times opinion page editor Tom Plate, now a professor at UCLA, decided to chime in on CNN's Web site. He thinks we should cancel the Second Amendment. He mentions in his column that he was the victim of an armed robbery recently, which scared the crap out of him.