April 18, 2007
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PROFESSOR: KILLER RACKED BY ANGER
English major Cho Seung-Hui identified as killer Teacher, concerned at his writings, took him out of class She contacted police, university, nothing was done Search warrant reveals bomb threat found. The police could not find anything beyond Cho’s words to do anything. In order for the police to have done anything with Cho his “American rights of freedom of speech” would have been violated.
My question is this: Are you willing as an American to give up your “freedom of speech rights” in order to stay safe?”2nd question: Are you willing to give up your rights to “bear arms”?
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Comments (21)
I don’t understand your post, Randy.
Freedom of speech is one thing. You don’t holler our “Fire” in a movie theater. You don’t write bomb threats.
The university sent him for counseling. Tests should have been given. He should have been under psychiatric help. If he had been an NICS check would have shown that when he went to buy the guns.
We have gun control laws. They’re ‘feel good’ legislation until the liberals who passed them understand they need to enforce them.
I honestly don’t think we can afford to give up any more rights, Randy… the law abiding citizens keep giving them up, but the criminals and crazies don’t follow the law, if we push for more gun laws, they will be the only ones with them…
No.
No.
i am willing to give up my freedom of speech IF that freedom I am giving up is threats to ones safety. if i write a bomb threat, i deserve to be punished, even if i am not making a bomb. because that is a serious threat. i am willing to give up my right to bear arms IF it is giving up handguns, semi automatic’s etc. but NOT hunting rifles etc. I just dont see the need for these two things, threats and handguns anyhow.
too complex for me to think about this morning.
hope you have a good day!
1. yes, so I don’t get hurt or my families or innocents
2. yes/no mix feelings, one thing is good but then it just take one person to act crazy with the power of guns if they own one.
“Anyone willing to sacrifice liberty to obtain temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin
Answers: 1) heck no (edited out of respect to you) and 2) heck no
NO AND NO… NO SOME MORE>>>
personally, i think guns are stupid and cowardly. i always will. always, always. i’m an empath at heart; i cry over roadkill, for god’s sake. i’m not going to condone gun-toting individuals, regardless of what you’re shootin’ and why.
but the freedom of speech thing? one of the gentlest, kindest men i know writes the sort of fiction that’d turn your blood cold. it doesn’t mean he’s going to shoot up a school.
I agree that we should not give up our Rights. I’m glad we have the right to shout that.
Common sense needs to reign in the free speech thing. You can express disdain for something without threatening to blow it up or shoot it. If the person has a bomb threat of any nature on them, perhaps they need to be examined in the head. At least evaluate them to see if they have any violent tendencies!
As far as the right to bear arms, I’m all for it. Bad people are going to find ways to get them, legally or illegally. Resposible citizens ought to have the right to have some degree of protection on them. The regulations on allowing people to purchase them should be more indepth other than what Virginia allows. Any decent citizen will be willing to wait and will not fear in that they don’t have anything to hide.
regarding the bear arms comments: i would rather not be armed and get shot than to be armed, have someone threaten to shoot me, i shoot at them first and miss, hitting a loved one or innocent bystander. i feel i have no right to bear arms myself, i have no interest, i dont hunt etc, i dont need one for protection because I have God. If God wants me to die because someone shoots me, then I will die either way, my having a gun to protect myself wont change that. if it were illegal to have automatic weapons, less people would be hurt. if someone had to reload their gun each time they shot it imagine how many lives could have been saved this week.
Heck, YES, I would be willing to give them up…The only ones hiding behind them are the ones out to do wrong. I have nothing to hide so why should I feel so violated. There has to be limitations if people are out killing others because we didn’t want to overstep our boundaries. It’s so sad.
No….and no….
I don’t want to give up any rights…I’m glad about the partial-birth abortion ban, it’s a sick sick thing
What important questions! My answers would be 1. Yes 2. No.
Good thought provoking post, my friend!
I think Freedom of Speech allows more good than bad.
I’m ok with giving up some rights that I don’t really think are “rights” really. But no, not my freedom of speech nor my right to bear arms.
RYC: We have two full time police officers. They are city cops who work on our campus. One of them is friendly and the other is standoffish. They make great partners. the friendly one is Pete. (Peeeeeete, the guy who brings BBQ.) Today he went to Sonic and got all of us cokes. There are about 40 of us giving state tests this week. He’s just sweet like that.
It seems there were signs but nothing done about it.Sad …
i wish that the guy would have kept those plays to himself. dark writing is not, NOT, a cry of distress or a cry for help. It also has nothing at all to do with the person who writes the story. I have an English teacher who would never consider even holding a gun…comes up with stories that would blow your mind away…creepy, strange, twisted.
I would never give up my freedom of speech.
I also have no reason to bear arms, so I won’t comment on that one.
Partial birth abortion should be illegal, I won’t even bother to try to argue that. Although birthing pains are extreme, the baby has to come out somehow. (I don’t know too much on this topic, don’t quote this at all, just my thoughts) The baby might as well come out alive.
The sticky spot would be if the doctors realized somehow the mother and child were going to die if the baby wasn’t aborted.
That is the only situation I would agree with a partial birth.