Current Events - April 2007

2007-04-18 15:48:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are people so upset about the Virginia tech killings but aren't even phased by the carnage currently happening in the Middle East? Why should I treat the 30 students any differently than the 180+ that died today from terrorist bombings in Baghdad? Why should I treat them any differently than the hundreds of US soldiers dying every year in combat? Or what about the 20 Iraqi police officers that were just executed and beheaded on film? Yeah, that’s right, I shouldn’t treat them any differently, and that’s why I don't care that much about the rampage at Virginia Tech.

I’m actually kind of glad this happened. Maybe this will wake our stupid country up and we’ll stop blaming the movies, stop blaming rap music, stop blaming violent video games, and START blaming the sophisticated & deadly weaponry that is so easily accessible. Forget gun control, it needs to be ILLEGAL to own anything but hunting rifles.

Did you know U.S. corporations produce over 250,000 9mm pistols per year? Not only was a 9mm used at VTech, but the 9mm is a favorite amongst inner-city gangs and thugs. So much of a favorite that you can hear 50cent sing about them in his rap songs! So many weapons are produced in this country that, if you can’t get one legally (which you probably pretty easily), you DEFINITELY can get one on the black market for not much more. This problem can be obviously remedied by cutting off the supply and making guns ILLEGAL once and for all! Please, lets make our streets a LOT safer and make guns illegal!

2007-04-18 15:47:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-18 15:25:14 · 15 answers · asked by holybass09 1

do you live in fear??
i mean if your neighbour has a gun and one day you wake him up because your tv is too loud or because your dog is barking too much and he gets mad how can you be certain he wont use it against you????
how can you be so sure that any of your neighbours will have a very bad day and start shooting????

2007-04-18 15:00:46 · 13 answers · asked by alberto k 3

i am not loving going to cnn.com and the gun is pointed right in my face take a look do you agree they should not be doing this?
http://www.cnn.com/

2007-04-18 14:42:58 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-18 14:41:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do a lot of thinking about various topics in the media everyday, and it just occured to me; I have always been pro choice when it comes to abortion, and I have also always been against the death penalty, this led me to thinking....am I the only one that feels this way? My opinions on both topics is strong. I believe in a woman's right to choose because that is just what makes sense to me. Yet I don't understand how the killing of a convicted murderer is justified by taking their life. Am I the only one with this conflict?

2007-04-18 14:27:55 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

The compacting ice can crush their boats sending them to icy waterey graves. A fair punishment for bashing in the skulls of 270,000 helpless baby seals.
Come on ice...work your magic

2007-04-18 14:21:31 · 8 answers · asked by chetahbill 4

After that South Korean guy pulled a massacre, it seems he's got followers at other campuses as well! Students all over the country, in North Carolina, at Boston University... are making comments like they are going to do VT style killing all over again, and then some teenage kid just killed himself yesterday with a gun after threatening classmates... It is crazy...America is crazy

2007-04-18 14:14:26 · 20 answers · asked by DeadmanWalks 3

I really don't care why he did it. He was wrong. In my eyes he did it simply because he was a weak coward who blamed others for his shortcomings. I am disgusted by NBC for airing his rants.

How do you feel about this?

2007-04-18 14:02:45 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

How can they force people to remain or stay in an unsafe zone. They they have the right to run and flee and get out of that place.

2007-04-18 14:00:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just in: The Supreme Court Upheld (a 5 to 4 vote) the nationwide ban on partial-birth abortion. (I have nooo problem with this, it's too awful to entertain unless they somehow just discover (?) irreperable/devasting fetus injury) BUT: WHY do people who think all manner of law imposes on their right to...-whatever, think NOTHING of telling a woman what she may/may NOT do vis-a-vis her own body??

2007-04-18 13:54:47 · 4 answers · asked by Ja'aj };> 6

I live in Ireland and our gun laws are extremely strict. Something which I'm glad of. My Dad used to own a hunting gun, which to this day I still don't know where he kept it. They laws regarding hunting guns are also very strict here. Our police do not carry guns, but we have an armed response unit if it is required. Yes criminals carry guns, which they get illegally, something which cannot be stopped. We still don't have high gun related deaths. I feel scared when I'm in countries where people can carry guns and the police carry guns, not protected. I just think it's so odd that so many Americans believe guns can protect them. It makes no sense at all

2007-04-18 13:49:54 · 19 answers · asked by starla_o0 4

Do you think law need to be changed to avoid these types of violent episodes? The parents of one of the students, perhaps the last one to be shot by Cho before he committed suicide, were surprised at how easily it is to purchase a gun. These parents and their children, had been relief workers in some of the most dangerous areas of the world ( Somalia, etc), yet to come back to the USA to have their son witness this massacre by someone with a gun.

2007-04-18 13:49:01 · 9 answers · asked by bitofchocolatekiss 2

What on earth were the police doing. They could have saved lives. Simply cowardly actions. If true.

2007-04-18 13:43:37 · 12 answers · asked by Mister Bald 5

some of the issues that come up in his writing seem to allude to hatred of father figure, betrayal, latent homosexulaity or perhaps sexual abuse.. I dunno what do you laymen armchair psychologists make of it?..

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html

2007-04-18 13:27:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

That they are telling everybody where Cho's parents can be found, have pictures of him up(frankly a bit morbid), and are saying that this all wont end up with prejudice reactions?

I mean look, they didn't have to go so far as to say oh his parents live and work in blah blah. I dont think the public has a right to know where his parents or any of his family lives or works. It's just rediculous to assume that some other emotional crazy isn't going to just start blasting away everyone who looks asian that works at a cleaners around there.
Sure we would all be curious about what the pictures contained but telling us what was in them is just as effective. They just cant let us grieve and then put it in the past peacefully can they? I know for a fact that this is just going to create more intolerance.

2007-04-18 13:22:34 · 16 answers · asked by sarah s 4

cus the virginia tech shooter's name was Cho. But in harry potter, cho chang is a girl. so which is it?

2007-04-18 13:20:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-18 12:59:45 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-18 12:53:29 · 4 answers · asked by harleydavidson52 2

2007-04-18 12:50:14 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just saw a comment on the shooting where somebody claimed because the boy was from South Korea he wasn't American.

Is this a country where only White, Christian, Conservatives are considered "American"?

When you think about it, weren't the first Native Americans, Indians?

2007-04-18 12:35:24 · 9 answers · asked by Skeptic123 5

because of the tragedy in virigina tech, people are starting to be racist against koreans. i know this is happening because it already started. the spitting on koreans, giving them dirty looks, and not going where they are..

its not paranoia, its true. because this has happened to one of my best friends. being part korean myself, this should stop before going any further. its like a deja vu of 9/11.

help stop this mess, and feelings are appreciated. whether appropriate or not:) thank you.

2007-04-18 12:16:26 · 13 answers · asked by Kodak Moment 4

A series of powerful car bomb attacks left 233 people dead and scores injured in Baghdad today--undermining Bush's plan to restore order to the beleagured capital.

Naturally, the military is quick to accuse Al-Qaeda of perpetrating such attacks to gain the sympathy of the Iraqis and the American people, but 99% of the time, the attacks are confirmed the next day to be carried out by the Sunni-led insurgency.

But what I learned last night on the next "America at a Crossroads" on PBS just gave me cold CHILLS.

All this time, I had been rallying for a withdrawal of American troops--hinged on the idea that this would calm down the fighting and dispose of the radical Islamic groups source of angst and power.

But I don't even *think* that we can withdrawal AT ALL. Not because we should, or we can't, but because we won't BE ABLE TO.

(More follows below.)

2007-04-18 11:32:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

if guns dont kill people, people kill people.....

should there be a law against lightning striking a person and killing him ???????????

2007-04-18 11:29:25 · 9 answers · asked by bob 2

dont you think laws to stop people getting weapons should be passed after the last tradedy?

2007-04-18 11:23:23 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Phsycologists have been saying we should emphacise the positive things in this matter, so we don't encourage copycats trying to set new "records", so why don't you lead the way and give us photos and stories of the innocent victims' lives and accomplishments rather than the person who so heinously took their lives from them much earlier than they should have ended.

2007-04-18 11:19:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-18 11:18:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know I was horrified to see them just standing there when that guy was taping the whole scene from his cellphone.. it really bothered me....how do you feel about it?

2007-04-18 11:13:11 · 8 answers · asked by ♥Lori♥ 4

2007-04-18 11:10:47 · 12 answers · asked by ***My Blǿǿdy Fätê♥ 4