Virginia Tech: Hippie Roundup

The Shaved Ape enters the hippie wasteland so you don't have to

As predicted right here at The Shaved Ape, leftoids are blaming the Virginia Tech massacre on guns. They're also using it to demonstrate how evil George Bush is for making war on Saddam Hussein.

AmericaBlog

Why is it legal in America for you to buy an AK-47? Oh that's right, it's your constitutional right to own an AK-47. I'm sure the founders, when considering their "original intent" that the Republicans always lecture us on, had in mind assault weapons when they were really writing about muskets. I don't know what kind of gun the shooter had, but it is far too easy for any nutjob to own a gun in this country, and it needs to stop.

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We need to stop trying to convince 100% of the American people that we're right. The Republicans are content with 30% of the public supporting them. Let them have their wacky 30%, while we embrace the 70% (or however many) who are rational, normal, non-extremists who actually believe that kids running around shooting other kids is a bad thing.

It's time to revisit gun control in George Bush's America.

Rising Hegemon

Attaturk is using the Virginia Tech massacre to demonstrate how horrible it was to remove the genocidal madman in Iraq:

Up to 32 in Virginia. Horrible, awful. We, as a nation, are shocked.

Imagine though, a world where this kind of murderous slaughter is an everyday occurrence:

He goes on to list the murders in Iraq for April 15. How clever.

White Noise Insanity

Kay's big, bleeding heart actually stopped short of calling for removing all guns from society or raising taxes or turning America into a socialist Mecca like France. She couldn't, however, keep from using a random act of violence to bash Bush. I wonder if her knee physically jerked as she was writing her little post?

Oh boy. This was just reported on Keith Olbermann’s show, Countdown, a few minutes ago that the shooter may be an Asian national here on a student visa and I have to say it’s my worst fear. Why? Because this is the kind of fear that George W. Bush and his band of warmongers have been touting since 9/11. They have constantly implied that those who are not pasty white and who are not legal residents are America’s enemy and it’s the kind of talk that has become common and comfortable in this country. I can’t stand it.

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What a very sad today was. My heart hasn’t ached this bad since I watched Katrina unfold. I had the same feeling of helplessness watching the news today of these shootings that I did when I stood in my livingroom screaming at the television, “Get some fucking boats for crying out loud!”.

Kay must not have known, in those early moments in the Katrina tragedy, that most of those affected in New Orleans didn't want boats. They wanted some lawless time to steal big screen TVs and Nikes, and to shoot at rescuers. We all saw it. Store after store was pillaged and people came out with armfuls of football jerseys -- not a scrap of canned food anywhere to be seen.

Of course, when Kay learned that the Virginia Tech shooter was Asian-American, she went on an unhinged rant about how right-wingers are racist -- even before they had a chance to respond:

I’m sorry, but if the reich wingers of this country are going to start spewing their hatred to yet another group of people whose skin is of a different color of their own, then they need to understand that it’s more than just the skin color or whether or not they’re legal residents of this country. IT’S WHY THEY DID WHAT THEY DID THAT NEEDS TO BE FOCUSED ON.

Guys like Bill O’Reilly of Fox News will be the first one to make this argument that ‘those people’ are our enemy now. Hell, when 8 children were burned in a fire in New York City recently and it was found out they were the children of illegal immigrants, he went ballistic. Instead of having compassion for these young innocent children and how they died, he decided to use the tragedy as a way to say, “See? It’s good that these children died. There are less of them now!”. Sick. Completely sick.