For shame, jackals
No, wait, I do have words.
To all of you who have taken this opportunity to spout off about how guns are evil and should be banned: Fuck you. Again (as always) the gun is not the villain here, Cho Seung-Hi is. He may have bought them legally but he also went to extraordinary lengths to conceal his identity and the serial numbers of the guns. This was a pre-medidated attack - if he couldn't get the guns legally, he would have bought them on the black market.
To all of you who have taken this opportunity to spout off about how video games are evil and are turning our young adults into psychotic monsters: Fuck you. Is there any evidence that this man had ever played a video game in his life? No. Do we know ANYTHING about him other than that he was an English major and that he shot himself after shooting almost 50 people? No.
To all of you who have taken this opportunity to spout off about how much safer the campus would be if everyone were armed: Fuck you. No seriously, fuck you. This isn't about guns, it's about one evil man who perpetrated a horrific attack. And do you really think the body count would be lower if hundreds of terrified, untrained college students had been running around with loaded guns?
You should all be ashamed of yourselves for trying to pull a soapbox out from under the bodies of 32 innocent students.
WORD.
PREACH IT.
Posted by: bronxelf | April 17, 2007 at 08:04 AM
Thank You!
Posted by: Tag | April 17, 2007 at 06:22 PM
I have to agree. Some people don't realize that the major issue is the killer, not the gun. He obviously REALLY wanted to do serious harm and I don't doubt that he would've found a way to do so regardless of how he needed to obtain the weapon.
Posted by: thethinker | April 18, 2007 at 08:26 PM
What really aggravates me is how rabid talk hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage & Neal Boortz have latched onto this and used it to further their own issues, not just gun control. Rush said the guy was "obviously a liberal," asked if people were so "concerned with the trumped-up global warming scare that they didn't notice a real threat" and said that if anyone raised a flag on this guy, they'd be labeled racist because he was Korean. Savage claimed the kid was brainwashed before leaving South Korea at the age of 8, then said he used the same type of rhetoric as Al Qaeda. And yet Don Imus is banished from the airwaves after saying three words?
Posted by: Keith | April 20, 2007 at 07:26 PM