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| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
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What Would You Have Had Them Do?
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 Virginia Tech students, who are not John Wayne, grieve
A lot of people are criticizing the faculty and local police for not shutting down the campus after the first two shootings at Virginia Tech. Initially I was a fellow critic until I understood more fully the timeline of events.
Only two people were initially shot. Somewhere in your town right now someone is probably clubbing their boyfriend over the head with a baseball bat, knocking their 14-year-old down a flight of stairs, or stabbing their ex-wife to death. Are police going to knock on your door or send you an e-mail saying to stay inside until they're sure the situation is under control? Of course not. And so it was with these two shootings. There wasn't even any reason to suspect this was a boyfriend/girlfriend dispute, because it turns out the first girl killed may not have known this guy at all! Could have been a robber, a wandering drug addict looking for a few dollars for a fix, anything. Nothing to suggest a campus-wide shootout was about to take place.
At work some lady, who I quietly consider to be a big bitch in the first place, said the kids shouldn't have been jumping out windows, they should have been throwing chairs at the gunman. Brilliant idea. As soon as he sees the first chair coming he's going to fire blindly in it's direction, and then mow the whole class down as soon as they throw their last chair. She said she meant when he was reloading. This sounded sensible until I saw what "reload" meant on one of these 9 mm guns on ABC-TV last night. .009 of a second. In the time it took you to read that last sentence the guy had a fresh clip in.
You have to just love all these swaggering John Waynes and Bruce Lees who second-guess the 9/11 hijacking victims and the Virginia Tech kids. One flying, spinning roundhouse kick and the gun would've been out of his hands! Those 9/11 hijackers slitting the captain's throat in front of the plane and threatening to detonate a bomb? Wouldn't have scared me none! I would've broken all their arms Jackie Chan style before they knew what hit `em! Horseshit.
Ever since the Rhode Island nightclub fire of a few years ago, I never go into a crowded room without making a note of where all possible exits are. Yesterday as I ate my Deluxe Breakfast at McDonald's I started thinking, if a gunman walked in here and started shooting, where do I go?
To the cemetery, most likely. |
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Posted by Art | 12:29 PM EST |
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What pissed me off was that I wanted to listen to the news on the way home from work but instead got treated to Sean "Bush's tampon" Hannity.
On the day of the shootings I got to hear Michael Savage on the way home. (He lets his callers get exactly one sentence out before chopping them off and rambling.) Of course he knew just how to handle things with the benefit of hindsight and hours of news reports. I feel really safe knowing natural-born superheros seem to be within arm's length all the time.
Did you see the disgraceful NBC photo's of this loon? Armed to the teeth, dressed for battle, I;m not sure I would have been brave enough to try something. My older bro used to idolize Nugent, now he just feels sorry for him. I usually dont use my brothers pejoratives, but he calls guys like Boortz and the Nuge a name they truly deserve: douche.