Some Get It Right, Some Don't

I'm usually not one to read or listen to Lou Dobbs of CNN but this post about Va. Tech is first class. I feel he gets it just about right. He points out that there are lots of students dying on our campuses each year and that deserves our attention.

We all seem unable to assimilate the fact that thousands of college students are dying violently each year. About 1,100 students each and every year will commit suicide, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and four of every five young people who attempt suicide exhibit clear warning signs.

The education system is obviously not working, nor are the safety nets in place to help severely troubled young people.

As we grieve for those murdered and wounded in Blacksburg, I hope we can all agree that it is important to address the larger scope of violence on our college campuses and deal with the underlying causes.

Way to go Lou, I now think you're just a partial asshole, not a total one.

Now, let's talk about a perfect asshole, Michelle Malkin. At birth there was just this asshole, and Michelle kind of grew around it.

Michelle's solution to the Va. Tech massacre is for all the students to carry guns. Then they could protect themselves. The reason they don't is the coddling they get by the liberal values system in place at all of our universities. They don't learn good conservative values such as taking up for themselves and how to shoot a Glock.

Instead of teaching students to defend their beliefs, American educators shield them from vigorous intellectual debate. Instead of encouraging autonomy, our
higher institutions of learning stoke passivity and conflict avoidance.

So what is she saying here, that the students aren't learning to debate? That everyone at Va. Tech is a liberal? At Blacksburg, VA? Most of the Southern boys at this school were given their first .22 rifles when they were ten years old. They know how to shoot, they just can't imagine having to shoot someone. They shouldn't be thinking about it, either.

These kids are going to school to accomplish something. They have dreams and goals and hopes. Their parents are sacrificing and mortgaging their present to give their kids a future. Malkin wants them to think about quick draws or whether they should go for a head shot or a double-tap to the center of body mass. She goes on and on:

Is it too early to ask: What if just one student in one of those classrooms had been in lawful possession of a concealed weapon for the purpose of self defense

Just imagine being eighteen or even twenty-two years old going to college and knowing that half of the people around you are carrying guns. Do you feel safe or afraid. You should be afraid.

It is ludicrous to think that any teenager would be carrying a pistol, it's pathetic that anyone would encourage it.

No Michelle, it's not too early to ask what if, it's too stupid. It's obvious that this darling of the right-wing media is a very stupid person.

Jim M