Gun-Grabbing Freaks On the Loose

Washington, DC (TLS). A national tragedy such as the Virginia Tech massacre should be a time of sacred, solemn mourning. Instead, the gun control lobby seizes each and every national tragedy as a platform from which to spout their disdain for the rights of citizens to own guns.

Such is the case now. The Brady campaign bunch is hard at work, and so are the gun-grabbers in Congress. Despite their innocent-sounding pleas to the contrary, Congressional Democrats are indeed unleashing massive attacks on the 2nd Amendment, even as they assure voters they are not.

The following article focuses on the Brady gang and their desire to rid the nation of all handguns. Read carefully their words, for they have many allies in the House and Senate under the Democrats.

Click here for the complete story:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200705/CUL20070502a.html

Fred Thompson on Concealed Guns and Virg. Tech

Washington, DC (TLS). Fred Thompson, the man who is the 3rd most popular choice among Republicans for the Presidential nomination, although he has yet to decide to run, is picking up quite a bit of support among gun rights activists with his comments on concealed weapons and the Virginia Tech massacre.

If there were ever any doubt that Thompson is a true stalwart on 2nd Amendment issues, his comments in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre should quickly dispel any such doubt. We can count Thompson in as one of those who believes that had students been allowed to carry concealed weapons, Cho Seung Hui would have been stopped long before the body count grew passed three.

Here is an excerpt from Thompson's article on the subject:

' Whenever I've seen one of those "Gun-free Zone" signs, especially outside of a school filled with our youngest and most vulnerable citizens, I've always wondered exactly who these signs are directed at. Obviously, they don't mean much to the sort of man who murdered 32 people just a few days ago.'

Read the rest of Thompson's essential must-read here:
http://abcradio.com/article.asp?id=389928&SPID=15663

Cho an Islamic Terrorist, Says Virginia Cop

Washington, DC (TLS). Pamela Geller over at Atlas Shrugs has received some explosive new information concerning Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung Hui. According to a Virginia law enforcement official who has seen the text of the manifesto (which is still being withheld from the public), Cho quotes extensively from the Koran.

In addition, Cho's manner of shaving himself before a terrorist attack is reminiscent of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

All of this is in addition to his taking on an Islamic name prior to the massacre--Ishmail Ax.

This is big news, folks. So, click on the link below and go over to Atlas Shrugs to read this story. Read ALL of it. The most damning part of the videos have not yet been released, either!

Click here now:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/04/ismail_and_the_.html

Virginia Tech History--Concealed Guns Save Lives

Blacksburg, Virginia (TLS). Before Virginia Tech enacted a ban on guns on campus, a crazed gunman was subdued by students who were carrying handguns, resulting in a minimum of loss of life. This was five years ago.

Before being subdued by gun-totin' students, the gunman had shot and killed three persons on campus and injured three others--a far cry from the 32 killed and 15 injured last week on a campus that had made sure its students were disarmed and unable to defend themselves.

This story is being retold time and again across the country in similar situations. Citizens who are allowed to carry firearms minimize the loss of life in the face of crazed murderers. Unarmed citizens are sitting ducks.

Virginia Tech made sure its students were sitting ducks through its ridiculous and totally illogical ban on guns.

Read the complete story here:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55326

Coulter Makes the Case for Concealed Carry

Washington, DC (TLS). Ann Coulter's latest column makes the case for allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre. Virginia Tech is a 'gun-free zone.' Thus, no law abiding citizen was allowed to carry their concealed handguns on the campus. They were sitting ducks for a madman like Cho Seung-Hui.

As we saw with the case of the Muslim who went on a shooting spree in Salt Lake City, a concealed handgun carried by an off-duty police officer took down the perpetrator before he could take more lives.

Had someone been on the campus of Virginia Tech with such a concealed weapon, Cho would have been gunned down long before his rampage became the largest single-perpetrator massacre in U.S. history.

Click here for Ann's article:
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=179

Who Taught Cho to Hate?

Washington, DC (TLS). From all accounts, Cho Seung Hui was reared in a fine Christian family from South Korea. His parents came to America and made something of themselves, building a dry cleaning business from the ground up as true American entrepreneurs.

Yet their son picked up some notions along the way that placed him directly at odds with the values his parents attempted to instill in him.

One writer suggests that it was Virginia Tech itself that shares part of the blame. With modern academia's emphasis on 'diversity,' 'multi-culturalism,' 'openness with no boundaries,' and an aversion to traditional values and religion, there is no doubt Cho was introduced to a sub-culture in America in which our country is denigrated, American capitalism is condemned, the rich are vilified as 'oppressors,' and religious values are mocked.

Read James Lewis' explosive commentary here at American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/04/was_cho_taught_to_hate.html

Cho's Possible Islamic Terrorist Connection

Washington, DC (TLS). The killer had referred to himself as 'a question mark' and signed his name thusly when he registered for the class roll at Virginia Tech. He was carrying no I.D. when he was found dead. He had tattooed his name on his arm--'Ishmail Ax.'

Various interpretations have been suggested as to the meaning of all of this, including a connection to Islamic terrorists. From his manifesto there is no doubt Cho had forsaken Christianity. His vitriolic words echo that of extremists around the world.

Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs has a riveting article on this connection. Read it here:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/04/who_taught_isma.html

Ohio Lawman Calls for Guns in All Schools

Washington, DC (TLS). A prominent sheriff in the state of Ohio is calling for guns to be present in ALL schools in light of the massacre at Virginia Tech. The lawman maintains that this is the only sure way to stop a crazed gunman who enters a school building intent on the murder of the nation's youth.

Sounds like a good idea to us.

Read the story here, from Ohioans for Concealed Carry:
http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/3859/83/

Page from Manifesto Shows Cho's Political Motives

Washington, DC (TLS). When you see the page from Cho Seung Hui's printed Manifesto, which has not been aired or publicized by the media, you will discover a shocking revelation. Cho had definite political motivations that led to his massacre--motivations that place him on a par with terrorists.

Read the page closely (it is difficult at points to read because it is a photo-copy). Cho refers to 'democratic terrorists' and other American citizens who 'need to have their heads chopped off.'

Apparently, the very worst of Cho's manifesto is being deliberately withheld from the public. This is an outrage. Thanks to the 'democratic underground' website, we have at least one small glimpse into what provided the impetus for Cho's violent rampage.

Wonder where he got such ideas??? Mmmmm.

Click here to view the page:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x694618

Shocking Court Documents on Cho Seung-Hui

Washington, DC (TLS). The Smoking Gun is in possession of the original court documents indicating that Cho Seung-Hui was mentally ill and of imminent danger to himself and others. These documents also contain official psychiatric evaluations indicating that Cho was in immediate need of hospitalization.

Although Cho was given the right to commit himself voluntarily, clearly hindsight shows that this young man was so sick he needed to be committed to long-term hospitalization against his will if needed.

There are six pages of documents here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0419071cho1.html

Two Important Cho Seung Hui Documents

Washington, DC (TLS). The Liberty Sphere has copies of two key documents concerning Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung Hui. Below you will find a link to Cho's mental health records. You will also find a link to the official police inventory of the material recovered from Cho's dormitory room at Virginia Tech.

As soon as Cho's 28-page manifesto is released to the media, The Liberty Sphere will post that as well.

Cho's mental health records in PDF file:
http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_documents/vtech/cho_mentalhealth.pdf

Police inventory of seized items in Cho's dormitory room:
http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_documents/vtech/search_warrant.jpg

The Cho Manifesto Video Clips UPDATE

Washington, DC (TLS). Below you will find two links to the video clips that Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung Hui mailed to NBC News the day of the killings.

Cho sent the package between the time he killed two persons in a dormitory and the time he killed another 30 students in a classroom building. Included in the package from Cho are the video clips, still images, and a 28-page manifesto of rantings that law enforcement officials are pouring over in order to find clues as to motive.

It was earlier reported that one of the first victims, Emily Hilscher, whom Cho killed at roughly 7:15 AM on Monday, was Cho's girlfriend. This information turned out to be erroneous. Cho had no friends, period, and certainly not a girlfriend. It is generally believed at this point that Hilscher's murder was totally random.

The clips you will see below are very disturbing and depict an evil, dangerous, and seriously mentally ill person. A court in the Commonwealth of Virginia had declared Cho to be mentally unstable and a threat to both himself and others. This declaration was made two years ago. Yet the information was not reported either to Virginia Tech officials or to state agencies that are supposed to keep records of such court pronouncements.

Virginia Tech police expressed shock and dismay that they would not know a court had issued such a declaration concerning Cho.

Tech faculty also stated today that Cho was viewed as a highly volatile and unstable person, yet somehow nothing could be done due to the fact that up to that point Cho had not made any direct threats to anyone, with the exception of being questioned for stalking two female students in the past. The two students did not press charges against Cho, however.

For the video clips of Cho's rambling rampage from Fox News, click here:
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?041807/041807_fr_herritage1&FOX_Report&%27Blood%20on%20Your%20Hands%27&acc&US&-1&News&91&&&new

For the original version shown on NBC, click here:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0b5_1176937612&p=1

Reality Bombards the Mountain Paradise

Blacksburg, VA (TLS). The small town of Blacksburg, Virginia, nestled in the near-idyllic setting of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, hardly seems the setting in which the most horrific mass shooting in our nation's history would occur. This place is as near paradise as one can get in the real world.

Yet reality came swooping down on paradise like a buzzard aiming for his next meal.

The mountains of the Appalachian chain stretch from Alabama to Maine, encompassing some of the most scenic mountain ranges in the country, from the Great Smokies, to the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the Adirondacks. Not only are these hills serene, but the people who inhabit them historically have been known as being some of the most humble and hospitable people on earth.

Crime statistics to this very day prove the point. Look at most any sector of the Appalachian Mountains, and you will find some of the lowest crimes statistics in the country. This is in spite of the fact that per capita, more people own guns in these hills than just about anywhere else in America.

These gentle but rugged mountain folk live by a code that has been inbred in them for generations, a code that arises out of the strong and vibrant evangelical Christianity for which these hills are known, particularly in the South. The people have been taught that cold blooded murder is a mortal sin. Thus, their guns are used primarily for hunting and for defense against those wayward souls who have forsaken their upbringing and discarded the code.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons the massacre at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg is so strikingly shocking. This is one of the last places one would expect such a thing to happen, in spite of the fact that this small town is home to a large university with 30,000 students.

Most students and alums here report that they have always felt safe at Virginia Tech. All it took to change that, however, was one lone gunman and the shots that rang out one cold Monday morning in April.

In an ideal world no one would ever use a gun to kill innocent people. Tragedies such as Columbine and the Twin Tower attack would be foreign concepts. But then again, in an ideal world no one would die of cancer, heart disease, or auto accidents. And certainly no one would ever even think of suicide.

But who ever seriously thought that this was an ideal world to begin with?

It is easy to be lulled to sleep in idyllic settings such as Blacksburg, Virginia, or Boone, North Carolina, or Lake Placid, New York. For one brief moment in time we forget that we live in a world of imperfection where there is disease and hunger, war and murder, violence and abuse...and death.

Yes, death. The one thing we all have to face eventually.

Despite the fleeting moments of bliss in the midst of our delusion that we live in paradise, the real world is still out there with all its pain and sorrow.

It is too easy at times such as this to seek scapegoats. 'The campus police didn't do their jobs.' 'The President of Virginia Tech ought to be fired.' 'Someone should have known that Cho Seung Hui was a time-bomb waiting to explode.'

Or the classic scapegoat, 'If we could pass strict gun control measures, this would not happen.'

If all else fails, it's always the gun's fault.

Yet, at the end of the day, when all of our attempts at blame hit brick walls, we are still left with one unexplainable fact--one single, solitary young man, a deeply disturbed young man, chose to do great harm. He did it out of his own free will. And out of that free will he chose not only to do himself in but to take 32 others with him.

The fact that Cho was a South Korean is entirely irrelevant. South Koreans have been immigrating to the United States for many years, and they have proven themselves to be some of the most endearing and productive naturalized citizens we have.

Cho did not commit these heinous crimes because he was South Korean but because he was very sick and very dangerous. He chose to do evil.

This evil that lurks within the heart of humanity cannot be legislated out of existence. When it rears its ugly head, it finds a way to perpetrate mayhem, no matter what laws men have passed to prevent it.

The hope for us all lies in the code that many of the mountain folk in the Appalachians discovered well over a hundred years ago. Human beings have the capability to choose to do great harm or to do great good. Through the religious faith that has sustained generations all over the world for thousands of years, we can choose to do great good.

And when we do so, the demons are kept at bay.

Neither Virginia Tech nor Blacksburg can ever be defined by the actions of one crazed gunman in 2007. Too many years have gone by that have set the standard for this area and this university. Those years have shown that people who live by the simple code that these mountain folk hold so dear can overcome evil with good.

And that is what defines this area and this institution.

GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA ISSUES ALERT!

Washington, DC (TLS). Gun Owners of America (GOA) has issued a special alert in the wake of the massacre at Virginia Tech. It seems the forces of anti-freedom have wasted no time in using this tragic situation to push their agenda of robbing the citizens of their rights.

Virginia Tech is a gun-free zone in the Commonwealth of Virginia, meaning that students, employees, and faculty are defenseless against lawless violent perpetrators, such as Cho Seung Hui. Had there been someone in that classroom building carrying a concealed handgun, dozens of lives could have been saved from the blood-bath.

But this point goes right over the heads of the gun-grabbers.

Read GOA's alert here:
http://www.gunowners.org/a041707.htm

Campus Gunman's Disturbed Creative Writing

Washington, DC (TLS). Students and officials at Virginia Tech are reporting today that campus gunman Cho Seung Hui was known for being emotionally disturbed and had written a play in a creative writing class that sent him to campus mental health counselors.

The Smoking Gun has posted on its website the text of that play.

The play contains scenes of graphic violence, including that which involved a chain saw.

Students also report today that at the start of the semester last year, Cho refused to sign his name on the class registration form, but only put a question mark where his name would normally appear. When the professor asked if he should refer to him as 'question mark,' Cho refused to speak.

For the remainder of the semester, Cho remained silent and was known merely as 'that question mark guy.'

The complete text of Cho's play, entitled 'Richard McBeef,' can be found at the Smoking Gun here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html

European Press Goes Nuts Over Campus Shooting

Washington, DC (TLS). As expected, those with a vested interest in robbing law-abiding citizens of their inherent right to keep and bear arms are taking to the streets blaming America's 'gun culture' for the Virginia Tech shootings. The European press in particular has gone nuts over the incident, blaming Charlton Heston for the massacre.

Yesterday the Brady Campaign to ban handguns also blamed American society for the killings.

The killer has been identified this morning as a South Korean exchange student by the name of Cho Seung Hui, 23, a resident alien. The perpetrator was not even a U.S. citizen, which sends the theory about the 'American gun culture out the window.

Cho Seung Hui had an early morning argument with his girlfriend, Emily Hilscher, after which he shot and killed Hilscher and a dorm counselor, who had responded to attempt to intervene in the argument.

Later, Cho would walk across to the other side of the campus where he went on a shooting spree that left carnage, tragedy, and heartache in its wake.

The European press has clearly taken leave of its senses by blaming Charlton Heston and America's 2nd Amendment rights for this massacre that was caused by a crazed madman, a homicidal/suicidal monster who was not even a U.S. citizen.

No one is to blame for this except for Cho Seung Hui.

Brady Gang Blames Virginia for College Massacre

Blacksburg, VA (TLS). Residents, students, and faculty in this normally quiet Blue Ridge Mountain town are still reeling from the heartbreak and senseless tragedy of a Virginia Tech campus massacre that left 33 dead and over 25 wounded.

No adequate words can be mustered to express the intense shock, grief, and outrage experienced by those personally effected by this tragedy. Our prayers and thoughts go out to all of those involved.

The Brady Campaign to rid the nation of handguns was in full swing, however, almost immediately after the incident took place. A spokesman for the Brady Campaign took to the airwaves, not to talk about the emotional toll on a campus in shock, but about the fact that supposedly Virginia's lax gun control laws are to blame for the carnage.

Such blatant political opportunism is to be forcefully condemned. Shame on the Brady campaign.

Plus, to add insult to injury, a CBS News correspondent reporting from Virginia Tech stated that 'a gun show was held just 30 minutes from campus two weeks ago,' implying of course that the gunman obviously was present at the show and probably bought his handguns there.

After all, only mentally unstable nutcases with anger control issues go to gun shows, right?

Here we go again. The anti-gun bigots always crawl out of the woodwork when something like this happens, even before the families of all the victims have been notified, before we know anything about the status of the wounded, and before we know anything at all about the perpetrator.

The ONLY thing we know is that the gunman was in his mid-20s and of Asian descent.

We do not know his motives, when or where he bought his weapons, or anything else about him, for that matter, except that without saying much he walked into a dormitory and a classroom building and began to systematically kill whoever was there.

One Tech professor was shot in the head.

The gun did not discharge on its own. I have never witnessed a firearm spontaneously firing at the heads of human beings, unless there were a human being attached to the trigger.

Perhaps rather than taking the easy way out and demonizing an inanimate object that has no capability of action apart from the trigger action of a person, American society needs to take a cold, hard look at the culture that produces these kinds of perpetrators.

We know, for example, that in the music culture, lyrics about chopping off heads, shooting people, and slaughtering the unsuspecting innocents with knives, all within the context of vengeful rage against women, society, politicians, clergymen, and police officers are all too common and readily available. These songs are listened to over and over again on iPods and other portable sound equipment for most of the day.

While Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson spout their blather about how awful Don Imus is for using certain language, millions of African American teenagers listen to lyrics of songs each day in which the 'n' word and much worse are used numerous times. These messages are played over and over again into minds of young, impressionable teens who walk around nearly delirious from the constant barrage of the relentless beat and the hate-filled lyrics.

And yes, this is just as bad if not worse than anything Don Imus has said in all his years on radio.

Over the course of the next few weeks I am sure we will hear again from the Brady gang. There will be calls for strict gun control measures.

But guess what? Virginia Tech already has a strict gun control policy that is much tougher than the state of Virginia. The students and professors caught in the crossfire were not armed--by university policy.

Once again, as we have seen numerous times before, if there had been armed persons in those classrooms, the perpetrator would have been dead on the floor before he would have succeeded in shooting over 50 people. I found myself saying to myself as the news broke, 'If I had been there, that "s-o-b" would have been dead before getting off five shots.'

My friends, one dead perpetrator and five people wounded is much better than 33 dead and 26 wounded.

An armed citizen in the classroom could have prevented this massacre. And anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying.