What's responsible for the VT shootings? Liberalism!:

[formerrepuke]

The 'Have Your Say' segment at BBC online regularly brings out knee-jerk anti-American commentary from all over Europe when some tragedy befalls us .. but the only rebuttal tends to come from twits like this one:


As a gun owner, I see these shootings as a direct result of liberalisms destruction of morality. Owning a gun requires moral clarity and the ability to judge what is right or wrong. Modern liberalism has blurred that distinction with its faith in unhinged moral equivalency. Kids are now taught that there is no good or bad, everything is OK, and we are not responsible for our actions. Perhaps gun ownership should be restricted until we can eliminate the corrosive effects of modern liberalism!

Mitchel Kotula, Charlotte, NC, United States

.......I already responded, but I think the BBC online mods tend to prefer the rantings of those of us who fulfill the image of the 'Ugly American' -or, in this case, "the stupid American."

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=1&threadID=6121&start=60&tstart=0&edition=1&ttl=20070417151823&#paginator

[slj0101]

1. Al Franken said it best regarding the aftermath of 9/11.

People immediately sought comfort in the things they enjoy most. For the Right-Wingers, it was blaming everything on liberalism. I think the same applies here.

[YOY]

2. Mitchel Kotula of Charlotte, NC sounds like an asshat who doesn't know shot from shinola

or maybe that's just me...

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Wait, did I catch that right?

A liberal hating gun owner says "Perhaps gun ownership should be restricted". What's the world coming to?

[bryant69]

4. Well he probably only means restirct Liberal access to gun

Good conservatives like himself will get to keep their firearms.

Bryant

[northernsoul]

6. Apparently he hates liberals even more than he love guns

though my guess would be that his ideal solution would be to only allow bona fide conservative ideologues to own guns.

[northernsoul]

7. Apparently he hates liberals even more than he loves guns

though my guess would be that his ideal solution would be to only allow bona fide conservative ideologues to own guns.

[Sapere aude]

5. The shooter was Chinese I think. I don't think he was influenced by liberalism.

I've heard bull shit from both sides so far. Some say if there were no guns this would not happen. Others say that if everyone was armed this would not have happened and everything in between. The shooter did not grow up in our society. I think he was a resident alien in this country for about 1 year.

I think that all those who want to use this incident to foster their personal agendas ought to STFU!

[YOY]

10. South Korean actually

Just for what it's worth.

[johnnie]

8. Little good his gun did for those killed yesterday

Mitchel Kotula is an ass

[tandot]

9. So, Timothy McVeigh was a liberal? How about Ted Kaczynski? Ted Bundy?

Ted Bundy was actively involved in the Republican Party:

http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/tedbundy.htm

"Bundy worked on the re-election campaign of Washington's Republican Governor Dan Evans. Evans was elected and he appointed Bundy to the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee. Bundy's political future seemed secure, when in 1973 he became assistant to Ross Davis, chairman of the Washington State Republican Party. It was a good time in Bundy's life. He had a girlfriend, his old girlfriend was once again in love with him, and his footing in the political arena was strong."