I'm not sure how you're linking JFK to this, but I will say that the Tree of liberty must occasionally be refreshed with human blood. That blood is it's natural manure.
Remember the worst terrorist events in US history used only box cutters, pocket knives and fertilizer, not guns.
It's a metaphor. It means that for us to preserve our liberty, periodically both patriots and tyrants must give up their blood. The first willingly, the second by the sacrifices of the first.
I watched this on the news about 5 minz ago, there is 32 dead! It's so terrible, I feel so sorry for those 32 innocent people. Their so young and lost their lives. BUT what the hell! The campus already knew about 2 murders and ddin't alert the students!
33 were dead, 32 were killed by the gunman and he committed suicide after. Iformation about the gunman: Police identified the gunman in the classroom attack as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui (pronounced Choh Suhng-whee). Cho held a green card _ meaning he was a legal, permanent U.S. resident _ and had been in the United States since 1992, federal officials said. Officials said he graduated from a public high school in Chantilly, Va., in 2003. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/17/ap/national/main2693365.shtml
A user just posted these interesting facts on my forum. ---------------------------------------------------------- In eight recent school shootings, psychiatric drugs were the common factor, in other instances, the shooter’s medical records were never made public and their psychiatric drug use remains in question. September 28, 2006: Bailey, Colorado: Duane Morrison, 53, entered Platte Canyon High School and shot and killed one girl, and sexually assaulted 6 others. Antidepressants were found in his vehicle. * March 21, 2005: Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota: 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise was under the influence of the antidepressant Prozac when he shot and killed nine people and wounding five before committing suicide. * April 10, 2001: Wahluke, Washington: 16-year-old Cory Baadsgaard took a rifle to his high school, and held 23 classmates and a teacher hostage while on a high dose of the antidepressant Effexor. * March 22, 2001: El Cajon, California: 18-year-old Jason Hoffman was on two antidepressants, Effexor and Celexa, when he opened fire at his California high school wounding five. * March 7, 2000: Williamsport, Pennsylvania: 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was on the antidepressant Prozac when she blasted away at fellow students in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, wounding one. * May 20, 1999: Conyers, Georgia: 15-year-old T.J. Solomon was being treated with a mix of antidepressants when he opened fire on and wounded 6 of his classmates. * April 20, 1999: Columbine, Colorado: 18-year-old Eric Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox when he and his partner Dylan Klebold killed 12 classmates and a teacher and wounded 23 others before taking their own lives in the bloodiest school massacre to date. The coroner confirmed that the antidepressant was in his system through toxicology reports while Dylan Klebold’s autopsy was never made public. * April 16, 1999: Notus, Idaho: 15-year-old Shawn Cooper fired two shotgun rounds in his school narrowly missing students; he was taking a mix of antidepressants. * May 21, 1998: Springfield, Oregon: 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his own parents and then proceeded to school where he opened fire on students in the cafeteria, killing two and wounding 22. Kinkel had been on Prozac. Makes you wonder why the media is focusing on guns when they should be singling out medications ... and Yes CHO was reported to having taken antidepressants.
^ seems like the common thing here besides the meds is the age...does it translate for older shooters too I wonder. too quick to medicate in the USA??
I am european and for me reason is simple: There is about 250+ millions of guns owned by Americans!!! While in France for example only 700 thousands in private hands!
And who invaded France thrice with hardly any resistance? Who saved France twice - and a third time with economic help after the second?
As far as I know France has about 30 car burnings a week - something I don't see happening in our cities very often. Quote from October 2006: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article607860.ece