The VA Tech shootings have continued to dominate headlines and editorial pages. From the media’s response to gun control this tragedy has opened many lines of debate from which we have selected a few of the best opinion pieces.

Charles Krauthammer argues that the most important issue coming out of the VA Tech killings is not gun control, but psychosis control. We need stronger laws to hospitalize and quarantine the mentally disturbed to help them and keep them from hurting others.

Nicholas Kulish recounts his own experience with a disturbed classmate. He found this classmate threatening, but still didn’t feel completely unsafe. Why? Tight gun laws in New York City. Laws he argues should be extended to the rest of the country.

Paul Jacob says that as that the media shouldn’t be so quick to put the VA Tech administration and police on trial. Now is a time to mourn, not to criticize.

Brian Williams, host of the NBC Nightly News, defends NBC’s decision to air portions of Cho’s “multimedia manifesto.” It was no decision they wanted to make, but it was a truly newsworthy development.

Lionel Shriver says that the one thing that ties recent mass killers together is their desire for media attention. We shouldn’t give them their wish, he argues.

James Q. Wilson, a public policy professor at Pepperdine, takes a careful look at gun control. It is impossible to get guns off the street, he says, and tighter gun control laws would be ineffective. What we need is “to work harder to identify and cope with dangerously unstable personalities.”

Bruce Shapiro traces the story lines that have come out of the VA Tech shootings. For all of the irrationality of Cho’s act, he says, we must work to get the story straight so that the narrative won’t be repeated again.