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As I sat in the student center at my university yesterday, I got a chilling reminder of the shootings at Virginia Tech earlier this week. I looked around at the faces of people I didn't know and thought about their families and my own family and how awful it would be if something like that were to happen here. How would we recover? What some are

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May 3, 2007, 3:03 p.m.
this is just more media circus as rightly stated in the article.
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jonmaverick
May 3, 2007, 9:25 p.m.
Not really much of an article, in my opinion. The writer seems totally ignorant of the significance of the murders at Virginia Tech, and compares them to singular, random acts of violence.
Then there's some political bashing, followed by political correctness, and some name-dropping. Not very informative or convincing.
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blowback
May 3, 2007, 10:53 p.m.
In the aftermath of the VT killings, America quickly scrambled to distance itself as far away from the killer as possible.
Firstly, the racial profiling. He was Asian. An immigrant. An outsider. An alien.
Then, the psychological profiling. He was psychotic, paranoid, delusional, mentally disturbed, maladjusted, development arrested, troubled, a loner, a loser.
He was therefore anything but us, he was not one of us, he did not come for us, and he could never be anything like us.
All of this effectively and swiftly shuttled him to the ends of the universe.
No, it had nothing to do with guns. He could have done it with a paper clip. No, it has nothing to do with our culture of violence. Violence is a fact of life, embrace it. No, it was just one sick little puppy. Another one, like all the others before him.
There is no pattern. It is not uniquely American. It's just human behavior.
Responsibility effectively deflected.
Hands dusted. Hands washed. Head replanted in the sand.
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Obaku
May 4, 2007, 1:31 a.m.
I hate to tell you this, but violence is the norm for human behavior, and always has been.
Virginia Tech made the news because he set a new individual record (U.S. only, non-wartime category) for killings in a 24 hour period.
Really sad that that the American record isn't even in the top 100 worldwide, worse than American high school students math standings!