Update on Virginia Tech Murders
Here are more of the details of this sad and horrific story. So far, the killer has not been linked to any terrorist groups.
Later on, when such discussions are appropriate, it will be worth point out that the murderer was here on a student visa. Why does that matter? Only because this one person's evildoing doesn't mean that the international student visa program should be abolished, any more than it means that guns should be outlawed for everyone.
Later on, when such discussions are appropriate, it will be worth point out that the murderer was here on a student visa. Why does that matter? Only because this one person's evildoing doesn't mean that the international student visa program should be abolished, any more than it means that guns should be outlawed for everyone.
posted by LadybugUSA at 8:30 AM
7 Comments:
The murderer was 23, and had been in the USA since he was 8. His parents own a dry cleaning store in D.C.
He hardly just got off the boat.
i dont think you have your facts straight, guns kill and visas allow acces to travel, how can you compare the two.
the maker and the owner should both be held for these terible acts that have happened
Brian:
That's the logical fallacy liberals always commit. Guns may kill -- but they also defend.
The point is that neither guns nor visas are inherently pernicious -- the problem is that pernicious people misuse them.
I don't know... there's a sort of circular logic at play here.
Guns should not be banned because you need to protect yourself from people with guns.
Do guns serve any other purpose than to kill human beings or animals?
Using Brian's criteria for culpability, every auto manufacturer would be held liable when a drunk driver killed a pedestrian, and when every sober driver ran a stop light and killed someone in another vehicle.
Plenty of objective evidence exists that far more lives are saved by using firearms defensively than are snuffed out by thugs and the deranged using them illegally. Our national media just don't publicize those data. But the National Rifle Assocation does publish them in one of its monthly publications, with sources cited.
To access the incontrovertible evidence, all one must do is look, read and be open-minded.
Guns don't kill anyone. People kill. If someone doesn't pick up a gun, load it, point it at someone, and pull the trigger; the gun will lay there until it turns to dust without ever harming anyone.
Archie Bunker said it best in an episode of "All in the Family" when Gloria stated some statistic about the number of people killed by hand guns. He said, "Would it make you feel better if they was shoved out of windows?"
In the mad dash to lay blame or make political points, I think we're missing the magnitude of the human story here.
Consider the heroic actions of Professor Liviu Librescu during the murderous rampage at Virginia Tech.
The man is a hero who lay down his life to save others. There's a lesson there, folks!
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