Like any other tragedy, the mass murder at Virginia Tech 2 weeks ago (4/16/07) has been exploited by the fanatics on the far right and far left!
1) Being that the killer, Cho Seung-hui, is a Korean immigrant, many right-wing fanatics have been using this opportunity to promote hatred of immigrants in general.
Salon's Andrew Leonard has discussed right-wing fanatic Debbie Schlussel's bigotry
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/04/17/vtech_korea/print.html
Conservative commentator Debbie Schlussel's first reaction to the news that an "Asian" was responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre was to declare that a "Paki" was likely responsible. After being confronted with irrefutable evidence of her nearly criminal idiocy, she amended her analysis: "Even if it does not turn out that the shooter is Muslim, this is a demonstration to Muslim jihadists all over that it is extremely easy to shoot and kill multiple American college students."
"Pakis" is a racial term for Pakistanis. So Schlussel's 1st reaction to a mass murder was to blame a mostly Muslim ethnic group.
Nevermind that most school shootings in the U.S. were caused by Caucasians non-Muslims!
Another fact provided by the Marmot's Hole: According to one report, Korea has more students studying abroad in the U.S. than any other country: 100,000. Debbie Schlussel thinks that the foreign residency of Cho Seung-hui is "yet another reason to stop letting in so many foreign students." But 99.999 percent of those 100,000 Koreans somehow managed not to engage in mass killing sprees
Schlussel doesn't care about victims of terrorism, she only uses terrorism to promote her bigotry.
And again, most school shootings in the U.S. were caused by Caucasians BORN IN THE U.S.
But does Schlussel comment on their white-ness? Nope! She justs uses terrorist incidents caused by non-whites to promote her bigotry!
By the way, the website which once had Schlussel's rants now has this to say
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/04/who_is_the_asia.html
I've removed this entry, mostly because I am spending too much time monitoring the slimy comments from the Nazi-infested Media Matters for America cretins.Posted by Debbie at April 16, 2007 02:57 PM
In other words, she can't even back up what she's saying, so she's covering up!
Debbie Schlussel is nothing more than a Jewish-female version of Don Imus.
Her columns are nothing but extremely shallow, extremley immature, extremely bigoted commentary on issues that require mature analysis.
Her website is www.debbieschlussel.com
Just don't expect to read mature analysis of serious topics there!
2) The Gun Control Crowd has also pimped the Virginia Tech tragedy to pomote a ban on guns.
Even worse, many foreign media outlines has bitched about the "American gun culture", showing their ignorance about America, guns, and crime.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view_article.php?article_id=61090
In Sweden, civilians can acquire firearm permits only if they have a hunting license or are members of a shooting club and have no criminal record. In Italy, people must have a valid reason for wanting one.
Valid reason for wanting one? How about ---- protecting yourself from a large, violent person trying to beat the shit out of you?
What am I supposed to do in that situation - Sing "Give Peace A Chance"?
Firearms are forbidden for private Chinese citizens.
So is the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion. China allows almost no civil liberties and is one of the worst human right's violators. Why should we listen to them on this issue.
If the guns are harder to get a hold of, fewer people will do it," said Michael Dent, a 65-year-old construction worker in London. "You can't walk up to a supermarket or shop and buy a gun like in the States."
Nonsense! There's a federally mandated 5 day waiting period between the day you buy a gun and the day you finally pick up the gun from the store!
More nonsense from that article
"Only the names change -- And the numbers," read a headline in the Times of London. "Why, we ask, do Americans continue to tolerate gun laws and a culture that seems to condemn thousands of innocents to death every year, when presumably, tougher restrictions, such as those in force in European countries, could at least reduce the number?"
The French daily Le Monde said the regularity of mass shootings across the Atlantic was a blotch on America's image.
"It would be unjust and especially false to reduce the United States to the image created, in a recurrent way, from the bursts of murderous fury that some isolated individuals succumb to. But acts like this are rare elsewhere, and tend to often disfigure the 'American dream,'" it said.
The French daily Le Monde said the regularity of mass shootings across the Atlantic was a blotch on America's image.
"It would be unjust and especially false to reduce the United States to the image created, in a recurrent way, from the bursts of murderous fury that some isolated individuals succumb to. But acts like this are rare elsewhere, and tend to often disfigure the 'American dream,'" it said.
And here is Neil Cavuto's response to all that nonsense!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267961,00.html
Nothing heals like healing words… unless they're not entirely healing.
I call them condolences with a catch.
They are the ones that express sincere regret over what happened at Virginia Tech, but proceed to become a lecture, if not a hypocritical one.
Like this cover on The Economist: Pity for our losses at Virginia Tech… but an added pity that we Americans are clueless how to prevent them.
Germany's Der Spiegel relaying its sympathies to those affected by this American massacre, but quickly adding whether the United States, "Should be looking at why these kinds of horrible crimes happen so often."
I'd have asked the same of Der Spiegel, whose editors neglected to mention Germay's own brush with violence a few months ago, when an 18-year-old guy carrying three guns and pipe bombs opened fire at a high school in the German town of Emsdetten. And not a word about an April 2002 incident involving a 19-year-old man who killed 16 people at a high school in the German city of Erfurt.
Mexico's El Universal had the nerve to equate the Virginia Tech killings with its own increase in violence, saying easily available American guns are the reason.
Pablo's note: The nerve of El Universal to make my ancestor's home look idiotic! Blame American guns for crime in Mexico? It's the Mexicans that are shooting the guns in Mexcio! El Universal should spend more time focusing on why those Mexicans want to use guns to terrorize others!
Back to Cavuto's comments
Then French President Jacques Chirac expressing "horror and consternation" at this uniquely American tragedy, but not a peep about those violent French student protests or Muslim uprisings. Curious.
All I'm saying is you offer someone your sympathy, save them your lecture.
This is not the time. Yours is not the issue. Their pain is.
We try not to speak ill of the dead in this country, at least for a few days.
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All I ask is you try not to make a soapbox out of them in your country, at least for one day.
And is Europe as safe as it claims?
Scotland bans gun, but has a higher crime rate than the U.S.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/blackstock6.html
A United Nations report has labeled Scotland the most violent country in the developed world, with people three times more likely to be assaulted than in America. England and Wales recorded the second highest number of violent assaults while Northern Ireland recorded the fewest.
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3 per cent of Scots had been victims of assault compared with 1.2 per cent in America and just 0.1 per cent in Japan, 0.2 per cent in Italy and 0.8 per cent in Austria. In England and Wales the figure was 2.8 per cent.
3) How do you stop a lunatic who already started shooting?
Sing "Give Peace A Chance"?
OR shoot back?
Shoot Back!
Yet, some at the University of Hawaii (my alma mater) don't want the campus to have armed guards?
Let's live in reality! People with bad intentions Exist! Guns already been invented, so it's too late to stop bad people from getting them!
So, if someone starts a random shooting at school, someone needs to fire back! By the time police arrive, it might be too late!
By the way, how would police stop an insane person shooting randomly at people? It aint by negotiation, it's by shooting at the shooter!
So, if police ain't around, security aint around, why not have regular citizens fire back?
After all, not every with huge muscles use them to bully others. In fact, some use them to protect the weaker ones!
Same is true with those with martial arts skills!
So do people really defend themselves with guns?
Check this out and find out
http://www.2asisters.org/armed_women.htm
By the way, despite all this talk of "American gun culture" and "Virginia's execssive leniency on guns", the Virginia Tech University already banned guns from it's campus BEFORE the shooting incident.
Though it had armed guards, obviously Cho Seung-hui started shooting when the security wasn't around!
