tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553414.post5094698300668031429..comments2023-05-30T10:06:21.365-05:00Comments on Narciblog: Politicizing tragedyNarchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02055696618689833957noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553414.post-31048239458267984512007-04-18T16:34:00.000-05:002007-04-18T16:34:00.000-05:00Every group in existence is politicizing this for ...Every group in existence is politicizing this for their own aims...even groups I like.<BR/><BR/>So far I've heard<BR/>-this is what happens when we let furriners into our great country<BR/>-this is why we should allow greater monitoring of phone lines and email to keep us safe<BR/>-this is a clear example of how unsafe women are and the rampant mysogeny (sp??) today<BR/>-this is an obvious example that people who have attended counselling sessions or those with a history of mental illness should not be allowed to attend colleges<BR/>-this is clearly a systems failure, this young man and thousands like him are clearly troubled and yet not helped by their teachers, peers, or institutions.<BR/>-we need to give the public more guns<BR/>-we need to tighten gun control <BR/>-this is clearly due to violent video games<BR/>-this is due to evolution being taught in schools (Tom DeLay, among others, voiced this)<BR/><BR/>And the always popular Westboro Baptist Church view:<BR/><BR/>-This happened because America doesn't hate gays as much as they should<BR/><BR/>Of course, they're protesting at the victims funerals<BR/><BR/>Most of the news sources I've read, including some local papers, the Times of London, and the NYT had profiles on the victims starting this morning. A lot of the identies weren't released yesterday. A lot of them still aren't released. One paper I read this AM had 4 full pages listing people who were killed, what they were studying, where they were from, what their plans were. It was hard to read.<BR/><BR/>FigAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553414.post-85768138442562325442007-04-17T21:13:00.000-05:002007-04-17T21:13:00.000-05:00Like the VCDL head-case I quoted on my blog, the s...Like the VCDL head-case I quoted on my blog, the standard conservative response to this tragedy seems to be "Let's make guns even <I>more</I> freely available." <BR/><BR/>Because, apparently, a nation full of gun-toting vigilantes is supposed to make me feel <I>safer,</I> instead of inspiring me to barricade my windows and never leave home for fear of getting hit by someone's stray bullet.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02893389360218696260noreply@blogger.com