Thursday, April 26, 2007

Phi Beta Cons: V. Tech Massacre: Crime, not ‘Tragedy’

re: "Larry Auster calls the horrific deed by its true name: /I can't stand hearing one commentator and survivor after another refer to the mass murder as a "tragedy"…the message is sent out as clear as daylight that the same thing will happen again. This is because to describe it as a "tragedy" is to remove the fact that it was a crime, an evil act, committed by an enemy of society, a crime that can be prevented in the future only if, unlike at Virginia Tech, we recognize the existence of enemies of society and are prepared to stop them. But if it's a "tragedy," then by definition no one did anything wrong. There was no criminal act from which society must be protected. There was just this big blob of misfortune that came falling from the sky. It's something to be suffered, something to be "healed" of, not something to arm ourselves against and be prepared to use the power of the law and physical force to stop if someone threatens to do the same in the future..."...

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