Silly Little Country

More Nonsensical CBC

Rondi described one tortured effort of our national government media to spin the VA Tech story its way.
This morning we have even more remarkable comments. Somehow it appears obvious that the campus should have been cleared and closed after the initial shootings. Hindsight is a nice tool, but it should not be misused; the self-satisfaction with which this judgment is delivered turns my stomach; people did have to make a decision, the one they made was entirely justifiable, and tragically wrong. But do not pretend you would have known better.
And Henry Champ is baffled. Apparently there are Americans who suggest that if students and faculty were not forbidden to carry weapons on campus, this tragedy might have been averted before the murder of over 30 people. How can he be so dense? It is completely obvious that had students and faculty in general been packing guns, this murderer would not have got very far.
Again, I will say I am not a gun person, have never touched one, and have concerns about the effects of their being readily available. But it is totally obvious that events like yesterday's shooting could not possibly happen in the same way had the victim population been able to defend itself. Where is Henry Champ's brain? Lost in this silly little country and its idiotic orthodoxies somewhere.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 6:35 AM