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Originally Posted by jon1856
Va. Shootings: What the World is Saying
What the rest of the world is saying about the Virginia Tech shootings.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Newsweek
Updated: 4:29 p.m. ET April 18, 2007
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:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18181477/site/newsweek/ |
One of the quotes in that story had me going:
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"Why can people bring guns to campus? How is it possible that so many innocent people could be killed? How could it happen?"
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At both schools I went to, guns or anything that could be considered a weapon was absolutely forbidden on campus grounds and in the dormitories.
I don't really like that this quote makes it sound like any student can bring a gun to campus and it's OK, because it's not. (At least at the schools I went to... although I doubt that is much different at other schools??)
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