Early this morning, a student at Virgina Tech University killed 32 people as well as himself. This disaster was the worst shooting rampages in U.S. history and news coverage of the event has been non-stop. For those of you reading, I'd ask for a moment of your time to greive for those people whose lives have been taken.
Even though this is a political blog, the events that occured today will be used for debates such as gun control, immigrations, and civil liberties. The shooter was a Chinese nationalist who was here on a student visa. Even without this catastrophe, immigration (illegal and legal) has been a topic of debate by the President. The candidates will have to take a stance on whether or not to tighten our boarders towards the legal immigrations that come over on worker and student visas. Another topic for debate is going to be the issue on gun control. The shooter had two pistols and multiple clips were found at the site of the shooting. Hand guns are permittable for purchase by anyone, but seeing that he wasn't an American citizen, and how accesible firearms really are, will be a hot debate topic. Finally, this topic is kind of sketch, but the topic of civil liberties could be at hand. Like the Patriot Act which was initiated after 9/11, another act which could give the executive and legislative branch more power in order to "secure" the saftey of the American people could come about. With a new act which could pry into people's civil liberties, the American people could feel less safe, and more paranoid. I'll try to see which topics are most common throughout the week and what the candidates have to say about each topic.
Once again, I'd like to give my condolences for the families and loved ones of those who were killed today.
James.
P.S. The Hilary health care reform is going to have to wait.
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It's horrible what happened. There's a lot of factors that probably led this guy to do it, but I wonder if a stronger social suppport for foreign students could have helped.
Yes, let's hold on the health care issue...
"The candidates will have to take a stance on whether or not to tighten our boarders towards the legal immigrations that come over on worker and student visas."
Border control reforms and topics... crooked.
If this incident is going to create new laws that are already invading our privacy, this will get the public to start waking up to a gov't that has been (already) invading in our "privacy".
Does it take an extremely tragic for people to start caring about "anything".
Forgive me for my generalities but keep on writing!
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