Calling All Victims!

If you were flipping back and forth between the major network news programs as I was yesterday, you probably noticed Brian Williams and Katie Couric asking a lot of questions about where to assign blame for the murderous rampage at Virginia Tech. Did the police warn people soon enough? Did they respond soon enough? Could it have been prevented by the faculty? Did any student know something that could have warned us all? Who can we blame for this terrible tragedy? How about the guy with the GUN? No, no, no. Too easy. Not complex enough. He was just "troubled." In fact, he's a victim, too. He's a minority, and racism probably drove him to it. The National Korean American Service and Education Consortium, an L.A. based civil rights organization, is afraid that mentioning the killer was from South Korea could have a negative impact on Asian-Americans. I hope it will give them some comfort, at least, that I don't hold it against them. After all, it was just one guy, not the entire continent of Asia. Still, Oprah wants to know, Charles Gibson wants to know, can we blame the cops, maybe the university, or, hey, maybe even ourselves? We wouldn't want to focus to much on the shooter, that would be insensitive. If you ask me, the headline should be, "Hero Cops Stop Murderous Rampage," but since we don't want to blame the guy with the gun too much for fear of being unPC, well, go ahead, blame the cops, blame the school, blame the evil "system." I'm telling you, though, it won't work; if you dig into their personal lives, I'm sure somewhere you'll find that they are all victims, too. Maybe if we all one day can claim to be victims, we won't have a need for prisons, because no one will ever have to be responsible for their own actions. Being a murderer will just be a "lifestyle choice." Being a thief will just be "suffering from a disease." Think about it.