Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Gun culture, Virginia Tech and many questions

Apparently the student gunman at Virginia Tech was from South Korea. Too bad that poor ignorant country doesn't have something like the wonderful American gun culture and the Second Amendment. 

The silly idiot never had the benefit of childhood target gun classes. He never went deer hunting with his dad. He had probably hadn't even been to a gun show before arriving in Virginia! So he just fell apart when he found freedom in the US of A. Too bad that his parents didn't educate him in the proper responsible use of modern weaponry. And of course, if all the students were issued mandatory guns and NRA memberships and gun classes then he would have been gunned by the time he could have fired the second shot! 

If that happened he would have been just another statistic instead the holder of a record that demented people will try to beat for decades to come. Also too bad that the ignorant cops in Virginia didn't learn the lessons of the shooting at Columbine and just last year at Dawson College in Montreal. After two people are shot in mysterious circumstances did they shut the campus down or send out warnings or storm the place? 

 No they calmly waited two hours until the students crowded their halls of learning to await their fate. Were the police ignorant or just complacent? Perhaps two on-campus killings is no big thing in Virginia so they felt no reason to panic. They just thought that it was a domestic dispute and therefore nothing to worry about. Perhaps they felt that some student was just expressing his constitutional rights to free speech and to bear arms. I sometimes find it hard to believe that all these people live in the same world as I do. 

 Apparently all the people who could have stopped this tragedy had some sense and intelligence and training before things started. So how could things have gone so horribly wrong?

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