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On the other hand, what the hell were the other customers in that coffee place doing?
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one bystander with a concealed weapons permit could have prevented this young woman's death. Criminals and Psychopaths will carry weapons regardless of the law, why take away the right to defend oneself in an area that seems to be a target for attacks.
guns don't kill people. knives don't kill people. people kill people.
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The point is, the bystanders did NOTHING, even though anyone could have used anything to prevent the murder from continuing. A murderer with only a knife can only do so much until someone stops him. They could have THROWN something at the guy, for Christ's sake, but they didn't. Allowing concealed weapon permits would NOT have helped in this situation.
01/23/09
I've smacked a guy in the head w/ a blunt object before for hitting his woman. This? This I'm 99% sure I'd have killed the guy myself.
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Just very southern and conservative.
Oh I got multiple annoying texts about 45 min after my sister told me.
Oh and for those who do not know, its "Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University", not Virginia Tech University.
01/23/09
Therefore, I assume there's no relationship between this and the other VA Tech, yet individuals are under the impression (see this article) that it's the same school/campus. I can't blame them; the AP seems to have done some pretty shoddy reporting.
01/23/09
This make me about as sick as Canadian bus decapitation that was coincidentally also perpetrated by a Chinese immigrant.
What a horrific way to die and I just don't understand how much anger and narcissism it would take to do that.
Poor Girl!!
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WTF is going on here folks? Is there something in the water at VT causing Asians to go homicidal or something?
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I see what you did there.
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That's a good enough reason if you ask me.
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lol silly zimzombie...don't you know elaine chow will never pass up a good chance to bash china even though it has NOTHING to do with gadgets? lol don't you know elaine chow will find a way to make china look bad even if china cured cancer?
of course she's not attacking CHINA per say, but chinese PEOPLE as in mainlanders which the murderer was in this case. shame shame shame elaine hating on her own people. twinkie!
01/23/09
When something's awesome, like the SWFC, or gadget shopping, or the Lenovo OPhone. I post that stuff too. But your oversensitive ass never seems to realize it.
This post is about two students at Vatech. I didn't make value judgments on either of them or their nationalities. That was you.
01/23/09
But no -- I just don't see a good connection here, though I hadn't heard of the story elsewhere. At first, however, I thought I was reading this from another publication in my RSS feed. It did cause me to take a second glance when I saw it came from Giz.
Sorry, but @zimzombie is right. In fact, I came to this post to see if there were comments reflective of how I felt. I'm glad that others share in this sentiment.
And @KaitouKID, in Elaine's defense, your first comment was totally unnecessary.
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I'm astounded that posts regarding relevance to topic get disemvoweled (as if by some sort of Giz thought-police who discourage double plus ungood anti-Giz sentiment) yet assats like KaitouKID simply get a finger-wagging and stern talking-to.
What the fuck is up with this sort of inconsistency and rampantly weak-willed ban-hammerage?
01/23/09
@hnkelley: KaitouKID hasn't (yet) been disemvoweled because Elaine obviously felt it was a more effective rebuke to respond to it than to gut it.
@Tamar Weinberg and others: Why must stories on Giz have to pass a relevance test? Giz is a blog in which techy writers share their interests. Requiring every post to conform to a gadget review would make it not Giz. Consistency is the hobgoblin of little blogs. Or something.