I signed up for this excellent email I get at the end of every day. Today's was especially well put. I love the last line.
To: Friends and Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer, Chairman Campaign for Working Families
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Looking For Heroes At Virginia Tech
The blame game is already in full force today over the horrific events at Virginia Tech. Some critics feel the university administration should have closed the campus after the first two killings early in the morning (I tend to agree). Others are saying law enforcement personnel should have acted more quickly. You can bet lawyers are already drawing up law suits all around. And many are asking why more able-bodied young men didn’t fight back once it was clear the shooter was out to kill as many people as possible. But as the media and the commentators point fingers, let’s not lose site of the central fact: the person responsible for the carnage was not the college president, the police or the students. The murderer was Cho Seung- Hui, from Korea, who came to the U.S. in 1992. He is the one who took 32 lives in cold blood. Already some “talking heads” are saying the shooter was humiliated when his girlfriend left him for another student, as if that would explain or excuse his rampage. Nothing can excuse it – he isn’t a “victim,” he is the murderer. Finally, let’s focus on the stories of heroism beginning to become public. Professor Liviu Librescu, 76 years old and a Holocaust survivor, died holding the door to his classroom shut, while his students jumped from the windows to safety. In another classroom several young men stopped cowering behind desks and ran to the door to barricade it while Cho shot through the door. Their heroism saved another 10 to 12 students. Can any lesson come out of this? Perhaps this one: Evil exists. We saw it on 9/11. We see it in Iraq, Afghanistan, London, Madrid and Gaza, as women and children are killed without mercy by Islamofascists. We saw it this week on the bucolic campus of Virginia Tech. Confronted with such evil there are always two choices for decent men and women – to fight or to flee. May God always grant us the courage and resolve to fight.
To: Friends and Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer, Chairman Campaign for Working Families
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Looking For Heroes At Virginia Tech
The blame game is already in full force today over the horrific events at Virginia Tech. Some critics feel the university administration should have closed the campus after the first two killings early in the morning (I tend to agree). Others are saying law enforcement personnel should have acted more quickly. You can bet lawyers are already drawing up law suits all around. And many are asking why more able-bodied young men didn’t fight back once it was clear the shooter was out to kill as many people as possible. But as the media and the commentators point fingers, let’s not lose site of the central fact: the person responsible for the carnage was not the college president, the police or the students. The murderer was Cho Seung- Hui, from Korea, who came to the U.S. in 1992. He is the one who took 32 lives in cold blood. Already some “talking heads” are saying the shooter was humiliated when his girlfriend left him for another student, as if that would explain or excuse his rampage. Nothing can excuse it – he isn’t a “victim,” he is the murderer. Finally, let’s focus on the stories of heroism beginning to become public. Professor Liviu Librescu, 76 years old and a Holocaust survivor, died holding the door to his classroom shut, while his students jumped from the windows to safety. In another classroom several young men stopped cowering behind desks and ran to the door to barricade it while Cho shot through the door. Their heroism saved another 10 to 12 students. Can any lesson come out of this? Perhaps this one: Evil exists. We saw it on 9/11. We see it in Iraq, Afghanistan, London, Madrid and Gaza, as women and children are killed without mercy by Islamofascists. We saw it this week on the bucolic campus of Virginia Tech. Confronted with such evil there are always two choices for decent men and women – to fight or to flee. May God always grant us the courage and resolve to fight.
