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April 18, 2007
Thoughts on VT
I only have a few things to say about the Virginia Tech massacre, and they can be boiled down into a few succinct statements.
- I am already sick of people talking about gun control laws in relation to this. Laws will not keep a homicidal, suicidal person from getting their hands on weapons.
- I am also sick that this is getting so much more coverage than the genocide in Darfur and the people killed in Iraq on a daily basis. Zoethe says it better than me.
- I find it sad that, as with most traditional Western medicine, we seem more interested in treating the symptoms than the underlying problem. We should be destigmatizing mental illness in our culture and helping people like this to get help before they make a plan and buy some guns.
- What he said.
- I'm sad for those who died, for the one who was so badly hurt he lashed out like this, for the community. But I'm also sad for the people in Iraq, and Darfur, and Tibet, and and and...
File under: Musings
Posted by Ealasaid at April 18, 2007 03:48 PM
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i don't aggree with lifeofreily. pasing this off like a natural disaster only says its not anyone's fault and the way this went down there is a lot of fault to go around. frankly everyone except the heros who gave their lives, dropped the ball.
Usually i'm a lot more compassionate, but when it comes to this I'm not. The cops inability to act caused more lives to be lost.
Posted by: keith at April 19, 2007 03:46 PM
How people respond is separate from the disaster. Look at Hurricaine Katrina - crap response fucked things up there big time.
People would still have died even if the cops had responded quickly. It would still have been a tragedy. And it would still have been pretty damn close to unpreventable.
I agree that the cops fucked up if what I've read is true, definitely. But you can't prevent something like this without drastically infringing the rights of others.
Posted by: Ealasaid at April 27, 2007 01:22 PM
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