Virginia Democrat Twists ROTC Cadets’ Bravery Into Case for Gun Control

by Doris Wise Montrose on March 15, 2026

After an ISIS-inspired terrorist murdered decorated Army Lt. Col. Brandon Shah inside an Old Dominion University ROTC classroom, unarmed cadets rushed the attacker and stopped the killing themselves. Rather than recognize the danger of disarming law-abiding citizens or question why a convicted terror supporter was free to commit the attack, Virginia Delegate Dan G. McGuire cited the cadets’ heroism as proof that Americans do not need firearms for self-defense. The episode shows the opposite: brave young Americans were forced to fight a jihadist bare-handed in a gun-free zone, and their courage is now being used to justify the very policies that left them defenseless. Virginia Delegate Dan McGuire just offered one of the most morally twisted arguments against armed self-defense you will hear.

My response to Dem Del Dan McGuire:

Dem Del. @GMcGuireVA: “We know that it’s not always true that you need a gun to fight back someone with a gun. Because those hero cadets didn’t. Leivu Labrescu, …didn’t have a gun when he selflessly gave up his body to prevent the Virginia Tech shooter from entering his class.”

McGuire’s (D-VA) comment is not just wrong. It is morally offensive.

Invoking the murder of Liviu Librescu as an argument against armed self-defense grotesquely distorts what actually happened during the Virginia Tech shooting.

Librescu did not “prove you don’t need a gun.” He proved what happens when innocent people are denied the means to fight back.

He was a 76 year old Holocaust survivor who physically held a classroom door shut with his body while a mass murderer tried to break in. He was shot through the door and killed.

That was not some noble alternative to self-defense. That was a man forced by circumstance and policy to substitute his own body for a weapon he was not allowed to have.

If Librescu had been armed, he might have stopped the killer and lived. His students might have been protected without his death being required.

Calling that tragedy proof that guns are unnecessary is a grotesque inversion of reality. It turns a preventable death into political theater.

Librescu did not “show we don’t need guns.” He showed the terrible price paid when good people are denied them.

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