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Let's put polemics aside
1. Had Virginia Tech not been a "gun-free" campus, there's a real chance that fewer people would have been killed on Monday.
2. Had Virginia Tech not been a "gun-free" campus, it's very likely that quite a few people would have died on _other_ days, when brawls/shouting matching escalated, or drunk students played "is this thing loaded."
On balance, I think the death toll from #2 is likely larger, but no honest assessment of the situation (i.e. one not taken through "all guns are evil" or "the 2nd Amendment allows us to own anti-tank missles" blinders) could deny that both 1 and 2 are true.