Posted on 04/22/2007 10:27:58 AM PDT by MissEdie
The country was plunged into tragedy and despair this week after the savage killing of Virgina Tech students and staff. All the emotions now familiar to us after similar incidents rippled across the country, but were particularly acute on the campus. It couldn't get any worse could it? Yes, unfortunately, it could. It seems almost inconceivable that anyone would want to try and gain political capital from such a tragedy. But step forward Democrat Liberal Senator Barbara Boxer, who less then 2 days after the shooting was using the butchery to call for stiffer gun laws. What an obscenity. If you didn't believe that Liberals have no conscience when it comes to pushing their agenda, believe it now. Stunningly, there was not one word of condemnation except from one of the victims families.
It got worse. Katie Couric did the same thing from her position as Liberal activist posing as journalist. Then of course, somewhat unsurprisingly, Tehran Rosie O'Donnell chimed in her with her ten tons worth. Simply a disgrace. An unconscionable effort to play politics with the suffering of young, innocent people and their grieving families. Liberal publicity arm NBC made things even worse by giving the murderer the oxygen of publicity for his sick mind. The killer probably chose NBC because he knew they would be low enough to publish the material. In case anyone hadn't noticed, it was evidence in a murder enquiry and charges should be pressed against them for copying the material, let alone airing it.
Of course the Liberal talking heads are already mumbling about, "well maybe it wasn't his fault. He was sick." So the two main Liberal reactions to an incident like this come to the fore. It was the fault of the gun, and it wasn't the perpetrators fault because he was sick. Liberals will always try and absolve humans of responsibility for their actions. The firearms were sitting in a showcase for probably weeks and then some scumbag bought them and killed a bunch of people. The relevant fact is that guns are inanimate objects that need human interference to become lethal. Don't blame the firearm, or its presence, blame the shooter. But for Liberals, it's the guns fault.
The only saving grace was that the scumbag killed himself. It would really be heartbreaking for everyone, especially the parents of the victims and the survivors, to listen to some scumbag Liberal lawyer try and get this guy acquitted on some technicality. Because that is what would have happened had he not killed himself. If anyone deserves the death penalty it would have been this guy, but the Liberals would not be calling for that. They would be trying to blame his old school mates for bullying him and blaming everyone else but him.
We all know that these arguments are specious, but that is Liberal ideology. They're already trying to point the finger at the police and the Virginia Tech administration for not warning students after the first shooting. Trying to create an argument for some scumbag Liberal lawyer to go in there and encourage the families to sue the college. Again, no mention of the perp being the only one to blame.
One thing the Liberal media are studiously trying to ignore is that Virginia is one of the easiest states in which to get a carry/conceal permit if you are over 21 and a law abiding citizen. The Virginia Tech Board of Trustees recently voted to forbid carry/conceal permit holders from carrying their weapons on campus, even though it would be legal. There is a very good chance that a permit holder could have shot this scumbag before he killed more than 30 people. Liberals do not want you to know that. The Liberal media never mentions incidents in which carry/conceal permit holders all over the country have prevented massacres from happening by either shooting the perp, or forcing the perp to give up his or her weapon. It happens very often, although you will never find it reported because it does not fit in with the Liberal agenda.
Only one thing has ever deterred potential rampage mass murderers: the presence of someone else with a weapon. When the potential victim can shoot back. It is a fact that states that have carry/conceal permits see a 60 percent reduction in multiple shooting attacks and an 80 percent reduction in death or injury from such attacks. You won't ever find that published in the mainstream Liberal media.
The bottom line is that Liberal views on gun control and law and order in general, gets people killed. They want the criminal to have a free shot at you and deprive you of any means to defend yourself. Then when the perp gets to court, they will support all manner of sophistry to prevent the perp from being punished. If that were not bad enough, they will then go on TV and try and use your misery to disarm you even more, and create a target-rich environment for criminals.
Boxer and the Liberal media should hang there heads in shame. At least let these poor people bury their dead before you start telling them it was really their fault.
I see no indication whatever that Cho exhibited any violent behavior prior to already being admitted to the University.
The dysfunction that you describe prior to his admission is never going to be used to eliminate candidates to many programs. The opportunities to expel Cho due to his dysfunction occurred after his admission.
Perhaps our backgrounds are very different. I have been associated with many technical people over three decades. The ability to be successful technically is not highly correlated with being able to express one's self or to be highly successful socially. The weirdest of the engineering students at the top technical universities would readily compare to Cho. It's simply not the case that such behavior predicts violence.
Just as some serial killers, like Ted Bundy, are educated, articulate, and sociable, there are many socially dysfunctional people that are not a menace to themselves or others and who can benefit from higher education.
I disagree that the University had a duty to eliminate Cho from the University as of the date he was admitted. Any such duty appeared later due to Cho's behavior and expelling him could easily have triggered the violence which did occur.
There simply are some situations in life that are beyond control and the occasional suicidal killer is just such a situation. Each of us has an unalienable right to defend ourselves from such a person whenever and wherever such person appears.
I have trouble believing that top engineering students would have gone their whole lives, including college, never speaking in complete sentences (though some foreign students here may not do so in English, because their English is so poor), and spent their high school and college years not responding verbally or with eye contact when a neighbor, classmate, or professor addresses them.
I'm not saying there was any way to predict his violence, but I hope that admissions standards for decent colleges involve a bit more than "no reason to think applicant would become violent, therefore he's accepted". Yes, social ineptness and disinterest in social interaction is fairly common among top math/physics/engineering students, and their academic excellence is often used to offset their social shortcomings in the college admissions process. But Cho was not a math/physics/engineering student of any sort, much less a top one, and his refusal/inability to communicate made him totally unqualified for the humanities or social sciences. In other words, he was really not qualified for any program the school offered, and obviously wasn't going to offset lack of academic achievement with vibrant contributions to the extracurricular life on campus, and so didn't belong there.
Thank you for this information Eva.
I don’t really think that Cho was associated with any Muslim group, but having lived in both Detroit and Northern Virginia, I think that he was exposed to Islamic thinking and probably identified with the hate filled rhetoric. The kid was already crazy and was probably very susceptible to any suggestion that his paranoia was justified by what he saw as decadent western society.
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