Gunman kills 30 at US university

[Keltoi]

Get ready for copycats too.

 

[Chiteng]

Supposedly there was a woman involved.
But it is all rumour.

I had freinds on that campus. I cant reach them because the phone lines are all jammed.

No solid information about anything.

 

[Muezzin]

Get ready for copycats too.

Copycats? You're probably right. I hope it doesn't bear too much resemblance to that series of school shootings a few months ago.

What the heck is going on down there?

 

[siFilam]

I don't think that. I think they should let prayer and the 10 commandments back in the schools

I'm all for it if at the same time Muslims get their prayer time along with a Islamic class.

-SI-

 

[enaya]

just gets to show the great american dream/way they go on about, i was very sad to hear this on the news when i switched on but i guess guns rule america even the president is funded by the gun companies

 

[siFilam]

In The Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful

:salamext:

just gets to show the great american dream/way they go on about

sis this isn't only a "American problem" since there are lunatics in every society. nothing to do with the American dream. this guy had issues and he decided to take it out on other people.

wasalam
-SI-

 

[Chiteng]

I think that one thing this points out is that the 'student visa' program
must be cancelled.

Too many foreign nationals, and no one is checking them.

Some guy in Chapel Hill, NC, tried to run over students in the
Duke commons, with a van.

These incidents will not stop, if security isnt tightened.
Get these people out of the country.

 

[MTAFFI]

I think this is a very tragic event, however I do not believe that the right to bear arms should be revoked. I own quite a few weapons myself and I have never harmed anyone with any of them. I also have a concealed weapons license and I carry two pistols on me at all times, neither of which have ever had to be drawn. The problem is not the right to bear arms, when you own a weapon legally you understand this as you have to go through a lot of classes and education to own such weapons. The problem here is you have a foreign student who illegally obtained a gun and killed these people. The problem is not the right to bear arms the problem is criminals who deal arms illegally. The DEA, ATF and the FBI need to crack down on gun runners and illegal arms so that these things dont happen. The sad fact is though it is hard to track these types of illegal arms. :unhappy:

 

[Cognescenti]

Very Sad, Stupid terrorist.

Can't really call him a terrorist as he had no clear political aim or motivation. Can't really call him an American either, because he wasn't.
Most likely he had an undiagnosed and untreated mental illness and was socially isolated.


Perhaps you can make the argument that he was influenced by American culture
and he very likely didn't bring the guns into the country, which means he bought them here. Very bad. Everyone who witnessed that, the surviviors and the families who lost someone on that campus will be scarred in some fashion.

 

[Chiteng]

However, if he had not had, a student visa, these people would still be alive.

That, no one can refute.

The student visa program, is the problem.

Get rid of it.

 

[ABWAN]

Every year thousands of the brightest students from different parts of the world come to usa to study. This is perhaps the only known incident of an international student committing crime. And one thing you missed out is that he was a permanent resident, so he was not even an international student, so to speak. Not every student gets to become a permanent resident while studying. I find your logic very naive and absurd. With the amount of high school dropouts among american citizens, if we kick out all the mexicans who do most of the low paid jobs that americans wouldnt want to do, and the internationals who do all the hi-tech jobs, I wonder how America would survive!!!

Also if I may add, some of the schools survive on international students

 

[Cognescenti]

just gets to show the great american dream/way they go on about, i was very sad to hear this on the news when i switched on but i guess guns rule america even the president is funded by the gun companies

The first part of your post is highly offensive (and stupifyingly ignorant). It displays an Anti-Americanism so ingrained and reflexive that you cannot even bring yourself to check your tongue with civilized decorum out of respect for 32 innocent victims. You appear to be dancing over the bodies of the innocents.

The second part is just stupifyingly ignorant, like a schoolyard taunt which can be ignored by the adults.

Overall; however, I found your input quite constructive. We Americans thank you for your advice. Maybe we could post a story about a big traffic accident or sports team being hit by lightning and you could offer your opinions on that?

 

[Cognescenti]

Every year thousands of the brightest students from different parts of the world come to usa to study. This is perhaps the only known incident of an international student committing crime. And one thing you missed out is that he was a permanent resident, so he was not even an international student, so to speak. Not every student gets to become a permanent resident while studying. I find your logic very naive and absurd. With the amount of high school dropouts among american citizens, if we kick out all the mexicans who do most of the low paid jobs that americans wouldnt want to do, and the internationals who do all the hi-tech jobs, I wonder how America would survive!!!

Also if I may add, some of the schools survive on international students

:rollseyes

This is perhaps the only known incident of an international student committing crime

Oh is it? From NPR...dated TODAY


Chapel Hill Graduate Faces Attempted Murder Charges

... by Rusty Jacobs

All Things Considered, March 7, 2006 · A University of North Carolina graduate is charged with attempted murder after driving an SUV into nine students in front of the university student center over the weekend. Mohammed Reza Teheri-azar says he did it because he is angry at the U.S. government for what it has done to Muslims. Rusty Jacobs of North Carolina Public Radio reports.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5250120


With the amount of high school dropouts among american citizens, if we kick out all the mexicans who do most of the low paid jobs that americans wouldnt want to do, and the internationals who do all the hi-tech jobs, I wonder how America would survive!!!


:rollseyes Guy..you do realize most of the high school dropouts in LA, for eg, ARE Mexican-American. Most of the low wage jobs in agriculture, for eg., are taken by those who dropped out of elementary school. (BTW .."Mexican" should be capitalized out of respect)

And the "internationals" do ALL the hi-tech jobs? Do you think that might be a little over the top?

NOTE: I am not saying international students should be banned. I do not agree with Chiteng on that. (With the possible exception of Chinese students in science and engineering fields)

 

[Chiteng]

Every year thousands of the brightest students from different parts of the world come to usa to study. This is perhaps the only known incident of an international student committing crime. And one thing you missed out is that he was a permanent resident, so he was not even an international student, so to speak. Not every student gets to become a permanent resident while studying. I find your logic very naive and absurd. With the amount of high school dropouts among american citizens, if we kick out all the mexicans who do most of the low paid jobs that americans wouldnt want to do, and the internationals who do all the hi-tech jobs, I wonder how America would survive!!!

Also if I may add, some of the schools survive on international students

I did not invite them, I owe them nothing.
I am not interested in your opinion of actual US citizens.
If the Universities need foreign students to survive, they dont deserve
to survive.

The rest of your post is pro-uncontrolled immigrant nonsence.

If this man, did not have a student visa, these people would still be alive.

Get rid of the program.

 

[Chiteng]

And one thing you missed out is that he was a permanent resident, so he was not even an international student, so to speak. Not every student gets to become a permanent resident while studying.

That is another flaw in the program. They should NOT, be granted such status. They should be allowed in ONLY, with the understanding that they
will eventually LEAVE.

It should not be used as a mechanism to evade normal immigration.

 

['Abd al-Baari]

Heard about this at school today, very sad indeed

 

[barney]

Another senseless slaughter.

I listened to BBC radio 4 where one of the speakers equated the targeting of innocents and then suicide of the perpertrator with Suicide Bombing. Interesting perspective.

 

[AvarAllahNoor]

Sad tragedy! God rest their souls! - To think these people have their lives ahead of them. God knows best.

 

[FBI]

That is another flaw in the program. They should NOT, be granted such status. They should be allowed in ONLY, with the understanding that they
will eventually LEAVE.

It should not be used as a mechanism to evade normal immigration.

Your just a bigot, The guy clearly had issues, I don't see what immigration has anything to do with it, I doubt you'd take the same stance towards columbine ect.

 

[Chiteng]

Your just a bigot, The guy clearly had issues, I don't see what immigration has anything to do with it, I doubt you'd take the same stance towards columbine ect.

Every person that posts on any board is a bigot.
Why not look up what the word means?

Columbine was a high school.