Virginia Tech Shootings
Posted by: Exiled Highlander on 16 April 2007
I watched the internet news feeds in horror today as the almost unbelievable events at Virginia Tech unfolded.
I watched the University President give a very controlled nes conference in trying circumstances and I watched video clips of shocked students trying to come to terms with this tragedy.
I then read a White House statement issued on behalf of George Bush which said "A White House spokesman said President Bush was horrified by the rampage and offered his prayers to the victims and the people of Virginia.
"The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed," spokeswoman Dana Perino said
I am stunned that at a time like this he immediately chooses to defend the US constitutional right to bear arms....why the F@*k did he even have to mention it? I guess the National Rifle Association carries a strong lobby and he is already heading off the inevitable cries for stronger gun laws....way to go Mr. Prez.
Jim
Posted on: 21 April 2007 by acad tsunami
Yes, lol he has lived in the US since the age of eight - plenty of time to have had his head messed up with American tv and computer games!
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by joe90
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Most dangerous poisons have some control, automobiles require a licence and mass murder with a sharp stick or rock is less easy and a lot easier to defend against.
Funny thing is the most dangerous thing in this list, as far as units despatched, is the automobile!
Kinda puts licencing into perspective.
What about the 40,000,000 unborn Americans murdered by abortion? 100 x the number of US servicemen killed in WW2...
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by Deane F
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Originally posted by joe90:
What about the 40,000,000 unborn Americans murdered by abortion?
I'm listening.
What about them?
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly
Indeed, what about them, and how did you get that figure?
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by Nigel Cavendish
And abortion is legal therefore not murder?
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by BigH47
What about the 40,000,000 unborn Americans murdered by abortion?
Since when? Also unborn therefore not American.
What about all the people killed because they don't wear a seat belt? Illegal in most states.
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by Earwicker
And what about the squillions of Americans preemptively murdered by not being conceived...?
EW
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly
Masturbation is Mass Murder.
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by Deane F
joe90
Perhaps you should start an anti-abortion thread so that we can talk on it about the Virginia Tech murders and gun control issues?
Just a suggestion...
Deane
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by u5227470736789439
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Originally posted by mike lacey:
Masturbation is Mass Murder.
Ever sperm is sacred...
I had forgotten that! Fredrik
Posted on: 23 April 2007 by joe90
The abortion thing was really another attempt to put things into perspective.
The number of deaths at Virginia Tech was awful - the whole thing was horrid, but we can miss the point of why things happen.
Virginia Tech didn't happen because of guns. It happened because of an unhinged mind.
My point is this:
It's a sensation so it grabs our attention. But more people die in cars and are murdered by abortion than by guns.
It's sad we don't see the wood for the trees that's all.
Posted on: 24 April 2007 by Rasher
There was a woman in Brighton here who battled breast cancer for years. She had the breast removed and then Chemo for months while her hair fell out, but while trying to recover from all this she kept her family going by being hopeful and enjoying every day as it came. The focus was to fight the cancer in order to have her life and see her children grow, accepting that when her children were old enough to have their own lives that she would be satisfied enough to let go. She developed bowel cancer eventually and it set the whole thing back, but she battled this too without losing her spirit. All this courage and heartache and being scared because of this damn illness.
Died in a car crash. Bang. Gone. Just another RTA on a dangerous bit of road.
Funny how we care so much and go to such great lengths to preserve life, but we accept road deaths as normal and acceptable and just write it off without a further thought.
Barmy old world, huh?!
Posted on: 24 April 2007 by NaimDropper
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Funny how we care so much and go to such great lengths to preserve life, but we accept road deaths as normal and acceptable and just write it off without a further thought.
Same in the US. Amazing.
If I remember correctly, more were killed in automobile accidents than US soldiers during Vietnam. Reporters were there, bullets whizzing overhead but not in the ditches and emergency rooms for the car accidents.
And how many have died in Iraq, Afganistan, Sudan, etc. in the time this has been in the news loops?
David
