[Alternate title: CUT IT THE FUCK OUT]
What? How could anything be more important than gun control? As anyone who knows me will attest, I hate guns in general, I hate this country's prevailing attitude about guns, and Jesus, let's just repeal the Second Amendment if people are going to use it as some kind of weak-ass justification. BUT. A more immediate problem is occupying my thoughts.
It is really bugging me that the current headlines are couched in language implying the gunman is a recent immigrant. He's not. He came to the States when he was 9 years old. He grew up in Centreville, fer chrissake. He was an English Lit major. Stop making it sound as though he hopped on a plane a few months ago. You can't distance yourself from this, America. Don't pretend this guy was a random foreign nutcase. This is our problem, not someone else's fault.
From Yahoo at this moment:
AP - "Va. Tech: Gunman student from S. Korea"
Reuters - "S.Korean student blamed for U.S. shooting rampage"
What? How could anything be more important than gun control? As anyone who knows me will attest, I hate guns in general, I hate this country's prevailing attitude about guns, and Jesus, let's just repeal the Second Amendment if people are going to use it as some kind of weak-ass justification. BUT. A more immediate problem is occupying my thoughts.
It is really bugging me that the current headlines are couched in language implying the gunman is a recent immigrant. He's not. He came to the States when he was 9 years old. He grew up in Centreville, fer chrissake. He was an English Lit major. Stop making it sound as though he hopped on a plane a few months ago. You can't distance yourself from this, America. Don't pretend this guy was a random foreign nutcase. This is our problem, not someone else's fault.
From Yahoo at this moment:
AP - "Va. Tech: Gunman student from S. Korea"
Reuters - "S.Korean student blamed for U.S. shooting rampage"
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PS: nice to see you're still around, hehe...
PPS: wait after the elections before you meve here, because if Sarozy is elected, i'm not sure france will still be worth it...
Good for you for calling attention to it!
Brilliant observation. What a painful incident (incident is an inadequate word but I can't think of another one) - it seems that everytime something horrible happens, people look for ways to distance themselves from the event - to concentrate on details that they believe make them different from the perpetrator. We never examine these events deeply enough to learn how to stop them. What causes someone to sink to such depths? At what point does such an act become a viable option for someone and how do they program themselves to do it. What do we as a society need to do to stop evil - both around us and in us?