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[miraje]

I'm a little bit annoyed that all the major news organizations have the shooter as their top story while the victims, heroic acts, and 170 people dead in Iraq in one day (in other words, more people dead than in the entire OKC bombing) are mere footnotes of the day. At least BBC has it right.

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[agentoneal.livejournal.com]

That's just how it is. Americans (we) are fascinated by the killers lives, but not the reasons why the killer did what he did. In fact, we (news broadcast) will spend weeks looking over his papers (his plays, his notes, etc) in a futile attempt to dissect just what this kid was.

In other words, in the end, it'll be blamed on:

Video Games (http://gamepolitics.com/2007/04/17/dr-phil-blames-video-games-for-virginia-tech-massacre/)

or

Evolution
(http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/17/the-inevitable-attack-on-science/)


Of course the real culprit, you know, the tools the killer used in the first place, will be discussed, but the fact of the matter is they won't do anything about it. And by they I mean 'congress.' After Columbine, there were 12 bills that were written to provide stricter control on guns, all of which failed. But of course you can't blame the guns.. England has a dramatically lower crime rate than we do with incredibly strict gun control laws, but that has NOTHING to do with the low crime rate at all.

Of course I, being a student of creative writing, will more than likely suffer the consequences of this witch hunt. I've already been compared to the guy ONCE and that's more than enough, and the fact that this guy's creative writing teacher, of all people, said that his stuff was "disturbing" and warranted investigation really leaves little room for me to be creative or even mildly macabre without fear of repercussion.

So in other words, to sum up this incredibly long comment: the real reasons for this shooting will go ignored and punditry will continue to bask in it's idiocy.

[miraje.livejournal.com]

Those two links are ridiculous, especially the evolution one. I hadn't heard that argument before. You know, if either of those arguments were even the slightest bit true, we would be seeing a LOT more violence than we already do. They fail to explain why most of us who play video games AND believe in evolution are pretty much normal and harmless.