So, you’ve heard about the 33 killed on the Virginia Tech campus. My sympathy goes out to the families and friends of those killed. My positive thoughts are for the people wounded by the killer.
That said, the following is directed toward the rest of America who was not directly touched by yesterday’s events:

Grow up you fucking shallow, ethnocentric drama queens.

OH WHY DID HE DO IT??

SURELY, THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR SOCIETY WHICH MIGHT INSPIRE SUCH VIOLENCE!

America is PURE and CIVIL and NO ONE RIGHT IN THEIR HEAD would have a SINGLE PROBLEM WITH ANYTHING HERE!!!

/sarcasm (in case you couldn’t tell)

But seriously, what makes anyone so sure that our society is so perfect that no one would ever want to just pull out a gun and start shooting people? Are you such a perfect person that you’d assume no one would ever want to hurt you?

And what’s with this absurd re-evaluation of the gun culture in America? I heard on the BBC this morning that there have been “any number” of shootings like this and the reporter only cited four in the last forty years! How many years has it been since Columbine?? Almost ten.

Finally, I’d like to end my rant with a few questions:

How many Americans died in Iraq yesterday?

How many Americans died in Iraq this week?

This month?

How many Iraqis die every day in Iraq?

33 dead in Virginia doesn’t seem so senseless now, does it?

More like par for the human course.

Too bad that South Korean guy who killed himself and all those people in Virginia yesterday hadn’t enlisted in the army. There’d be 33 more Americans alive today and who knows how many more Iraqis dead.