More on the V-Tech Murders
1) Pat Buchanan, again, is using a tragedy committed by an immigrant to promote his anti-immigration agenda.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2007/05/01/the_dark_side_of_diversity
In that article, he lists all the violent incidents committed by immigrants, then concludes that we should stop immigration.
This is idiotic!
For one thing, majority of the school shootings in the U.S. were committed by Caucasians BORN IN THE U.S.
The Oklahoma federal building was blown up by a Caucasian born in the U.S. Though he wasn't even from Oklahoma, he was from Buffalo, New York.
I got nothing against Caucasians born in the U.S. Many are wonderful people. But Pat Buchanan act as if they never committed any terrorism, as if only immigrants are capable of terrorism.
Did Buchanan bother to find out about immigrants saving lives?
A lot of the doctors & nurses in the U.S. are immigrants, many coming from India and the Philippines. A lot of native-born Americans would've been dead if it wasn't for those immigrant doctors & nurses.
Maybe some of those who were shot BUT NOT KILLED in the V-Tech incident were saved by immigrant paramedics, surgeons, nurses, doctors, etc.
And what if Buchanan got a heart attack, and was saved by an immigrant using CPR on him?
A lot of the soldiers risking their lives for America in the Middle East are immigrants! Why doesn't Buchanan not care about that?
Many cops, firefighters, lifeguards, ambulance drivers, etc are immigrants.
However, the Pat Buchanans and the Debbie Schlussel DONT CARE ABOUT VICTIMS OF TERRORISM!
They just wait for another terrorist incident committed by non-whites! Once it happens, they use that incident to promote the hatred of the non-white!
2) While the Gun Control Crowd love to focus on the V-Tech killings, they CHOOSE TO IGNORE an incident at Appalachian Law School.
http://www.uwire.com/content/topops012402002.html
Last week, a disgruntled student at Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Va., went on a shooting spree. Peter Odighizuwa tragically shot six people, killing Dean Anthony Sutin, Associate Professor Thomas Blackwell, and student Angela Dales.
Most news reports pointed out that the situation ended when several students "confronted," "tackled," or "intervened." However, Tracy Bridges, Ted Besen, Todd Ross, and Mikael Gross did not merely "confront" Odighizuwa. Bridges and Gross separately ran to their cars to get their handguns once the shooting began. Bridges approached Odighizuwa with Besen's and Ross' aid. Gross was close behind. According to Bridges, "I aimed my gun at him, and Peter tossed his gun down." Bridges, Besen, and Gross had previously received police or military training.
In other words, it took armed civilians to stop an armed lunatic. That's reality! It may not be "politically correct" reality, but IT IS REALITY!
The answer to armed lunatics isn't disarming everyone else. The answer to armed lunatics is armed civilians.
Anyways, the article also cites liberal media bias against guns,
Unfortunately, the media did not point out that the "intervening" students were armed. A Lexis-Nexis search revealed 88 stories on the topic, of which only two mentioned that either Bridges or Gross were armed. A Westnews search exposed worse results. It revealed 112 stories, of which only two mentioned the armed students.
With media bias like this, it is no wonder that people fail to see the benefits of gun ownership. This was a very public shooting with a lot of media coverage. Even here, reporters rarely presented the positive side of firearms. Instead, they preferred to default to the politically correct story portraying guns as something only the bad guy uses.
Most US media outlets are run by anti-gun liberals. That is where many foreign media outlets get their US news from. This is why many foreign media folks view the US as a "trigger happy country". They don't even bother to investigate the other side of the story!
3) Many V-Tech students and professors cited Cho Seung-Hui's writings in a creative writing class as a sign that he was prone to violence.
Some see this as a sign that anyone who writes a violent story should be involuntary committed to a mental health institution.
This is over-reaction. The world is violent, so many of us write stories, songs, poems, etc with violence. But in most cases, we don't even bother to commit the violent acts.
If anyone who writes a violent story for a creative writing class gets involuntarily sent to therapy, that won't stop any violence. All it would do is that violence-prone people just won't write anything violent. They'll just keep it all inside.
Then when they finally lash out violently, everyone would say they didn't see it coming.
