Exclusive: Some Brief Thoughts On The Virginia Tech Massacre
Bob Parks


Author: Bob Parks

Date Published: 2007-04-18



Before any VA Tech massacre facts were known, finger pointing began. FSM Contributing Editor Bob Parks reviews the range of public reaction. Did the ‘gun free zone’ on VA Tech’s campus facilitate a purely evil, deranged and heinous act? Bob’s analysis will stimulate discussion.

  

 

Some Brief Thoughts On The Virginia Tech Massacre

 

 

By Bob Parks

 

A few years ago, being the wise guy I am, I asked a person of faith something that’s always bugged me.  If God knows all, sees all, and can do all, why can’t he stop bad things from happening – things that kill people.

 

I was told that God can’t see evil.

 

Forgive me if at the time I thought that to be a lame response, but with the shooting deaths of students and faculty at Virginia Tech, I’m becoming a believer.

 

Whenever any kind of tragedy befalls us, there are some who feel the need to second-guess those who were there.  In this case, there are reports that some parents want the Virginia Tech president and local police chief fired.  Some say they didn’t respond quickly enough and made poor decisions.

 

If God can’t see evil coming, then how do you expect people to react when they suddenly find themselves in a life and death situation?  Think about that when you hear learned news reporters claim not enough was done.  We’re talking about ordinary people facing the unknown under stress we can’t imagine.  Not John McClain in a Die Hard movie.

 

The call now is for greater campus security.  While that’s a noble goal, is it really possible to lock down a college campus?  Virginia Tech has over 28,000 students.  How can you secure that many people without a Berlin Wall? 

 

Security is usually meant to keep bad people out.  What would happen should you lock bad people in?

 

Let us not forget.  Cho Seung-Hui was the person who killed those innocents.  He killed them for a variety of reasons, and his note, among other things, cited “rich kids” and the debauchery that is America.  My first response was that if he thought America was so bad, no one was asking him to stay.

 

But the other point stuck out in my mind was the whole thing about rich kids.  Judging from the comments of the Concerned Duke Faculty, I’m not surprised that some kids feel depressed enough to commit violence, get themselves arrested, and even throw themselves in front of bulldozers.

 

It also didn’t take long for this to get political.

 

Virginia Congressman James Moran, who in 2003 said Jews were responsible for getting the United States into Iraq, now claims that Republicans and President Bush were responsible for the Virginia Tech murders.  A British newspaper is blaming former NRA President Charlton Heston, at home with Alzheimer’s, for the massacre.  This in spite of the fact that, according to Instapundit who heard from a reader at a Virginia law firm, Virginia Tech is a:

 

“ ‘gun-free zone.’ Well, for those who follow the law. There was an effort to change that but it failed: ‘A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly.’ That's unfortunate. Had the bill passed, things might have turned out differently, though we'll never know now.” 

 

For anyone who may want to know what life in America would be like if we FINALLY got gun control, take a look at Great Britain.  In 1997, all citizens were required to give up their guns, and they did.

 

In a relatively short amount of time, muggings and home invasion robberies more than tripled.  The bad guys were never with the program, as by nature, they don’t obey the law.  That’s why they’re called criminals.  Britain is now revisiting the wisdom of gun control.

 

Cho Seung-Hui killed 33 students and faculty at Virginia Tech.  No one saw this coming.  That’s how evil works.  Second-guessing while parents and friends are trying to mourn is also evil.

 

And this happens every time.

 

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FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Bob Parks is a member/writer for the National Advisory Council of Project 21, and VP of Marketing and Media Relations/Staff Writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc.

 

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