The Washington Post has dutifully chronicled the Virginia Tech shooting as a delicious opportunity for America-haters around the globe. Molly Moore’s roundup on Wednesday had several shocking quotes, such as praise for Saddam’s effectiveness at gun control:

“They are always saying that the Arabs and Muslims are behind the terrorism and the killing,” said Hussein Kadhum, 26, a traffic policeman in the heavily Shiite city of Najaf, south of Baghdad. “But America has terrorism and they are exporting it to us. We did not have this violence in the Saddam era because the law was so tough on guns.”

Then there are the strict apostles of gun control in Argentina, as chronicled by the local progressive media:

“Massacre in the Paradise of Weapons,” declared the headline in the Buenos Aires daily newspaper Pagina/12. In an accompanying article, Dario Kosovsky of the Argentine Network for Disarmament said he believes students who commit mass murder are following the example of the U.S. government, which advocates “the use of violence to achieve liberty.”