Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The Virginia Massacre
I'm absolutely surprised that no one has made a connection between this character Cho Seung-Hui and the Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh.
The parallels are stunning to me. Both were young men who had significant problems with modern day society. Both were incredibly angry, yet, relatively intelligent. People who knew these guys weren't surprised by the outcome.
I've come to the conclusion that, same as the Oklahoma bombing, strict gun laws wouldn't have stopped this tragedy. All this talk of too much or too little of gun control is avoiding the real issue.
We, as a modern society, have to quit treating mental illness as a moral defect.
Until then, nothing will change.
I now return you to your normal feed of misplaced outrage.
EDIT: In an odd bit of irony, today, April 19, is the 12th anniversary of the Alfred P. Murrah building.
The parallels are stunning to me. Both were young men who had significant problems with modern day society. Both were incredibly angry, yet, relatively intelligent. People who knew these guys weren't surprised by the outcome.
I've come to the conclusion that, same as the Oklahoma bombing, strict gun laws wouldn't have stopped this tragedy. All this talk of too much or too little of gun control is avoiding the real issue.
We, as a modern society, have to quit treating mental illness as a moral defect.
Until then, nothing will change.
I now return you to your normal feed of misplaced outrage.
EDIT: In an odd bit of irony, today, April 19, is the 12th anniversary of the Alfred P. Murrah building.
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From your lips, to the ears of the willingly ignorant!..(:
One thing I would like to add to your post: Very few criminals follow the gun laws. None that I know of yet, but never say never.....
One thing I would like to add to your post: Very few criminals follow the gun laws. None that I know of yet, but never say never.....
Though Virginia made it easy for Cho to obtain the weapons he used. You're right in pointing out that he could have gotten them elsewhere.
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