If you were to read your own obituary...

My first reaction to the headline of the Modesto Bee "Virginia Tech Massacre: Deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. History" was to ponder the hundreds of thousands who have died in Iraq, Afghanistan, or as The New York State Special Commission on Attica wrote, "With the exception of Indian massacres in the late 19th century, the State Police assault which ended the four-day prison uprising was the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War."

Apparently this is the largest massacre that can't be attributed to the government, though it will be attributed to our lack of laws. According to Reuters:

"Media commentators in Europe were quick to blame permissive U.S. gun laws for the massacre. Italy's leftist Il Manifesto newspaper said the shooting was "as American as apple pie". France's Le Monde newspaper said such episodes frequently disfigured the "American dream". "It would be vain to hope that even so destructive a crime as this will cool the American ardour for guns," Britain's Independent newspaper said in a commentary. Howard, a close U.S. ally over Iraq and Afghanistan, was a leading voice suggesting Washington should tighten its gun controls. Australia banned almost all types of semi-automatic weapons after a mass shooting in Tasmania in 1996. "We showed a national resolve that the gun culture that is such a negative in the United States would never become a negative in our country," Howard told reporters."


These statements from Reuters unfortunately echo the common theme throughout most national and international news sources. My opinions follow closer to that of the Free Market News Network.

I read the article on this only minutes after watching Against the Wall, a drama based off of the Attica Prison riots in 1971. Maybe that is part of it, but all of the reporting on this issue makes me sick, not because of the actions that this young man took, but because of how our media is treating it.