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April 16, 2007
A September 10 mentality?
A shooting spree at Virginia Tech in the USA has resulted in 30 or so innocent deaths. I just heard Wolf Blitzer say on CNN that it is the worst massacre in US history; another announcer called it the worst mass murder in US history. How about that? I thought it was just us war skeptics that had forgotten 9/11. Sadly, anyway, if this had been in Iraq, such a horror of murderous loss would be "just another Monday morning".
Posted by Matthew Hogan at April 16, 2007 07:38 PM
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Actually, it would be one thirtieth of a Monday morning, or something like that -- a 100 dead every day, or so, and Iraq is less than one tenth the size of the US.
But I guess the NRA would be in even worse trouble in Iraq right now, than they are in the US. Their parroting of the 2nd amendment on the need for a "well-armed militia" wouldn't really fly over there.
Posted by: alle at April 18, 2007 02:42 PM
oh snap!
Posted by: Klaus ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://matthew.aqoul.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at April 18, 2007 07:43 PM
Actually the NRA isn't in much trouble here. Gun ownership is pretty much a regular feature of the society.
(The Second Amendment refers to a "well-regulated militia" not a well-armed one.)
But if all the murdered Iraqis got as much sympathetic coverage, and if every suicide bomber got the weirdly sympathetic weep-over ("what drove him to it"?) that the killer is getting here; perhaps a better world would ensue.
Posted by: matthew hogan at April 18, 2007 09:48 PM
