Va Tech Shootings

Now that the dust is beginning to settle on the Va Tech shootings, it looks like we can see America.... at it's worst.

Media

Is there nothing sacred for the media? specifically, NBC. I'm a big freedom of the press guy but with every freedom comes a responsibility.

First, a little precursor. I believe most people in the psychiatric community would tell you that this shooter had mega self esteem problems and was obsessed in finding a way to have himself stand out among the masses.

The media knows this yet they play right along into this guy's hands making him a celebrity by putting his name and picture all over the place. He can now rest in peace knowing he's a big man on campus.

Do you think the there might be another disturbed young person out there that might see this type of behavior as his road to immortality?

I would be willing to bet a lot of money that before the end of the school year, there's going to be another one of these types of shootings. And with each and every one of these shootings, the ante gets upped to make the next shooting more sensational than the last.

Has anyone noticed that the entire popular culture is all about being noticed? Survivor, American Idol, Springer, My Space, Deal or No Deal, Maury, You Tube. It doesn't matter if it's to show off your special talent or to sink to the lowest of self-degradation as long as you get your fifteen minutes.

And the media plays right along. Just like a drug dealer handing another vial over to the crack whore; and we all just gawk at the results.

It gives the executives at NBC a total pass. Now they can play the old "we're just giving the public what they want..." card. I'll remember that when one of their kids OD's on meth.

Victims

It's hard to be critical of someone who's lost their life but it appears the victims in the classroom huddled up behind a desk during the shooting; even while the shooter was reloading the clips to his guns. Only a professor, a holocaust survivor, fought back.

What were these kids thinking? Well, I hope he runs out of ammo soon? In this country we've got to start getting it through people's heads that the only way you deal with evil is to confront it.... often violently. You cannot negotiate with evil, you cannot expect mercy from evil, you cannot be patient with evil until it's no longer evil.

The people on United flight 93 got this. They knew they were going to die, but they were not going to let evil win on evil's terms. They didn't huddle up in the corner waiting for evil to decide their destiny, they created their own.

It doesn't matter if evil shows up as the president of Iran or a mad man on campus, at some point, everyone needs to start getting that force is the only way you confront such people.

We've gotten to this place in our country by brainwashing people into this multi cultural clap trap which insists in 1) denying that evil really exists in the first place... "it's just another opinion to be respected"... "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" crap 2) thinking the only effective way to deal with confrontation is to "talk it out".... Malarkey.

For the past couple of decades, we've been "wimpifying" America and it's disgusting. I was watching a piece on PBS a couple of weeks ago when Natan Sharansky said that while he was in a Soviet prison he heard about Ronald Reagan calling out the Soviet Union as an "Evil Empire". It was his opinion that just calling out evil was enough to spur on the dissidents in their country.

Do we have the stones to do it again? or will we just have Nancy Pelosi stop in to shake hands with it?