Shooting at Va. Tech

I posted this on Anything Goes, but it fits here, too.

Another reason I'm probably so wound up about this is that I am full-fledged, unapologetic mama's boy, and my mom is a college dean. She has told me for years that she can't sleep at night at the end of every semester because she's terrified that she will fail someone and get a bullet in the head for it. She's been sued several times for failing someone because they had psychological issues, or family issues, or some other issue. I love that in this wussy, there-are-no-losers society, her stance remains that she teaches in the medical field, which is important, and if you fail, you don't need to be in a hospital. But I love my mama, and it worries me.

 

http://mediamatters.org/items/200704200002

This is the latest installment of the ongoing SportsJournalists.com series: What IN THE FUCK is wrong with these people?

 

He didnt say it about women's basketball players so no one will care.

 

To be fair, someone from National Review called that jackass out:

In a Classroom WIth a Gunman [John Podhoretz]

I have to dissent, in the strongest possible terms, from John Derbyshire's shocking posts on Virginia Tech. The notion that a human being or group of human beings holding no weapon whatever should somehow "fight back" against someone calmly executing other people right in front of their eyes is ludicrous beyond belief, irrational beyond bounds, and tasteless beyond the limits of reason.

"Why didn't anyone rush the guy?" Derb asks. Gee, I don't know. Because he was executing people? Because if you rush a guy with a gun, he shoots you in the head the way he executed the teachers in each classroom?

Derb claims proudly to be touching a "third rail" by raising something no one wants to talk about. The third rail is a metaphor for electrocution. What happened in those classrooms was no metaphor. It was a psychotic with a gun and a lot of people with no weaponry at their disposal. A few were astonishingly brave, and deserve to be considered heroes. Everybody else was just a person either in danger of being murdered, being mortally wounded, or being murdered.

In the name of old-fashioned and time-honored forms of human behavior, Derb has trampled on one of the oldest: Judge not, lest ye be judged.

EDIT: He also referenced that fantastic Washington Post story, basically telling people to read that to get an idea of what it was like.

 

Speaking of, did we ever get a reply from Neal Boortz?

 

We did. It drew quite a reaction. It was also the right call. It was THE story of the day. Got angry calls but I believe it was emotion of the situation speaking out. Understandable. The pictures were difficult.

I agree on the cartoon. I'm told universities across the country today are covering their signs with Virginia Tech signs.

 

Anyone read what Cho's connection to the first girl murdered?

 

I loathe the young Pod, but that's a good smack.

 

Of course, on the same web site, there's a "if they were only allowed to have guns" article by Fred "Law and Order" Thompson.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTIwYzMyZmQ1YzQ1MDNmZTMyYzQ1Y2U3YTU4YzNmNGE=

Yeah, that's why they're safer. That's the only reason.

OK, OK, I'll shut up. Not trying to threadjack and start another gun debate.

 

It's bad enough to be crazy, but how can these commentators be so tone deaf?

Insulting the manhood of murder victims because they were murdered? Where is that going to play?

 

zeke --

 

I like how the item ledes with San Francisco then Oakland and Detroit as unsafe cities. I bet they weren't chosen in order of most stringent gun laws, either. Those cities just shout Gays! Liberals! Blacks!