The Virginia Tech massacre last week has given everyone an opportunity to hate on America. Now, this hate isn’t as bad as showing any kind of dissent for a U.S. foreign policy, say, for example, setting a time table for Iraq, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Like all the senseless deaths in Iraq, we must look past anything that happened and not let it change our mind about our previous ideas or decisions ‘ stay the course one might say.

Now, this is not that easy to do when you look at the 32 innocent dead, but it starts to make more sense when you take the following into consideration:

1. This guy was Korean. He might have grown up in America and started his psychotic episode here, but the overriding factor is that he is not American. If you have trouble with this argument, you just need to look at him to be swayed. Not only is he obviously Korean, but he even has one of those three-part Korean names. The name is a tell-tale sign and if greater care was taken to profile and alienate this guy as an outsider, we probably wouldn’t have had this tragedy. Not only is he foreign, but he’s the worst kind: an immigrant! These immigrants have caused a lot of trouble in the past 200 or so years, and we still continue to fight a War on Immigration today. The under-reported fact by the media that he was Korean and an immigrant certainly has more of an effect on amplifying his psychosis than the life and lack of treatment he received in America.

2. Guns are still safe. Even though this guy shot up a school with guns he bought legally, it doesn’t take away from the fact that legally purchased guns remain to keep America safe. With our lax gun control laws, we have less gun violence per capita than several other nations, including Colombia, Mexico and Thailand. Prospective gun owners need to feel freedom to purchase their firearms without a ridiculous wait or some ludicrous written test. We should assume that any legal U.S. resident purchasing a gun has a good use for it, and the owners know how to operate it correctly without having to take 20 minutes out of their day to prove it to us. Guns make America great, and if more students had them, maybe one of them would have been able to pick off this killer during the act.

3. The killer didn’t talk ‘ that is certainly his motive. That being out of the way, we certainly shouldn’t broadcast his tapes or letters. If people started reading this nonsense, they’d eventually end up beginning to understand this lunatic and, God forbid, learning why a kid would lash out like this and through that, somehow reinforce it. We should pay attention to the outburst and not the life or mental condition that this guy had. His motive was obviously because he was weird ‘ enough said. If anything, we need to take away the fact that the weird roommate you had freshman year can be the next psycho and should be reported immediately.

It’s easy to say that this kid had issues and he was failed by the system, but it’s even easier to write it off as an isolated incident that we will never have to re-experience again, although this situation feels vaguely familiar somehow.

‘ Branko Blagojevic is a senior management major, and if you couldn’t see the sarcasm in everything that was just said, please go back and re-read it before writing any angry letters.