What the rest of the world is saying about the Virginia Tech Shootings

Vilis Veritas

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Wed Apr-18-07 04:50 PM
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What the rest of the world is saying about the Virginia Tech Shootings

Source: Newsweek

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April 18, 2007 - The Virginia Tech shootings have not just resonated inside the United States. Around the world, politicians and analysts have watched the headlines with interest, filtering their commentary through their own national prisms. Many non-Americans remain bewildered by the nation's gun laws; others found themselves surprised by the diversity of students and professors at a college in a town few could have found on a map. Some of the international reaction:

"It's not a question of an Indian professor getting killed in the firing. This is related to the American gun laws. We can't do anything about it. It is something which has happened in the United States. They have got to change the law."
� K. Subrahmanyam, a former member of India's National Security Council. India has some 80,000 students in the U.S. One of the Virginia Tech victims was G.V. Loganathan, a 51-year-old lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who came from Chennia, India.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18181477/site/newsweek/

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medeak

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Wed Apr-18-07 04:53 PM
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1. heard that Britain is transfixed by story

perhaps due to the enormous amt of foreign students they have. (got an earful from british customs agents last year re African flight coming in after mine)

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Vilis Veritas

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Wed Apr-18-07 04:58 PM
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2. Britain banned private ownership...

of guns.

This looks like the begiining of the same for the US. It will be an interesting fight here in the US, not so sure if it will ever happen without a civil war. Lots of people here in the south proclaim proudly that you will have to pry them from their cold dead hands...

I shiver thinking about it...

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jahyarain

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Wed Apr-18-07 05:27 PM
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4. sadly, i agree

Edited on Wed Apr-18-07 05:28 PM by jahyarain

some of these "people" down here value their guns more than their children's lives.

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madmom

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Wed Apr-18-07 05:06 PM
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3. I also heard they were indirectly blaming charlton heston (nra)..n/t

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medeak

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Wed Apr-18-07 05:43 PM
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5. my son interviewed Heston

years ago in high school after speech for NRA..he came home telling me "something isn't ok with him..he read speech but couldn't answer any questions" before his dementia problems came out...NRA was still using him despite obvious mental accuity problems.

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