Re: Virginia Tech Memorial Photos


"Joseph Kewfi" <f_stopblues@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What concerns me is the fact that not one of those other students was
carrying a gun to defend themselves.....In any "normal" society (that
hadn't been screwed up by liberals) there would have been several other
armed students, and our crazy guy wouldn't have been able to kill more
than one or two people without being blown away himself.

Your response is so predictable. If you refer back to my mock pro-gun post
earlier in the thread you will see a striking similarity with the opinions
of some so called American "conservatives" in response to some articles in
the European press see here:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,477882,00.html

These ones are particularly priceless and so cliché:
"The real problem is that none of these students or teachers had a
personal weapon," writes Rick Geiger of Rochester, New York.
"More guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens would have helped prevent
this slaughter," writes Charles Edwards. "This is exactly what happens
when there is gun control."
"I am a pro-gun American who works for a university," writes Carl Black.
"I am of the opinion that if a gun toting, law abiding citizen had been
around, this individual would not have killed all these people because he
would have been shot earlier in his rampage."
"Those Europeans are so evolved," writes John Wolfington of Philadelphia.
"Why should we listen to people who joyously embraced totalitarianism and
waged two world wars?
"It is unfortunate that the reporting from Europe always seeks to blame
the US and its policies for the acts of individuals and always ends the
blame before Europe can be implicated," writes Jeff Patterson. "The
primary gun used in this situation was a Glock from Austria."

Whatever about regime change, it's time for mentality change, the 1700's
are over. None of you have focused on the fact that a South Korean
non-American born individual carried out this attack. A man living in the
USA since 1992 that had become acclimatised to your culture, but in all
the news reports scant attention is paid to this large detail. There is no
real analysis of the culture that allows these massacres to repeat
themselves regularly, the focus is merely on blame. My point is, culture
is supposed to evolve over time, educated societies realise where and how
they are going wrong and correct as necessary, this doesn't seem to be
happening with American culture.

So what are you saying? - That he did it because he was Korean? - I can't
buy that, because I have known and worked with many Koreans, and they aren't
any more (or less) crazy than anyone else.
Or that it was because he was displaced from his native culture? - I
can't buy that either, for the same reason.....Like 1/3 of the physicists I
worked with at SLAC were displaced foreigners....They all got along fine in
the American cultural environment.
This guy was just a nut case....No more, and no less. There is no single
reason to explain how he got that way. There are many hundreds of people
like that who manage to get through life without hurting anyone. Many of
them don't even hurt themselves. but, occasionally one does. I don't know of
any way to prevent it. Life is dangerous. Live with it.


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