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...federal regulations ought to have prohibited the killer, Seung-Hui Cho—who had previously been ordered by a judge to receive psychiatric treatment—from purchasing the two firearms, but a misstep on the part of Virginia authorities allowed him to make the purchase nonetheless. Suddenly, gun control was once again the focus of national debate. While no amount of foresight—or legislation—could ever completely prevent a tragedy like the one Virginia Tech witnessed last Monday, more effective gun controls can at the very least make such an event more difficult...
...Friedman, in his rambling April 15 article in the New York Times Magazine, sees promise in this “geostrategic, geoeconomic” green movement. A testosterone injection will transform the stereotypical environmentalist from effete tree-hugger into gun-toting patriot. Picture it now: Dick Cheney, a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club. And many environmentalists might accept this recasting as well. They recognize that another terrorist attack strikes fear in a way that, say, melting icecaps just don’t. Clean energy, now cast in a muscular light, can be supported by conservatives?...
...When a School Learns to Mourn The Gun Lobby's Counterattack Where Cho Bought His Deadly Weapon Behind the Killings, a Troubled Mind South Korea's Collective Guilt Inside Cho Seung Hui's Dorm How to Make Campuses Safer The Virginia Tech Victims A Partial Biographical List of The Dead
...said Edward H. Thai ’07, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association. In the days since last Monday’s shooting, groups have emerged on Facebook with titles such as “Guns Don’t Kill People, Asian Kids at VT do...” and “Asian dude + a gun = 33 killed and I’m pissed,” prompting concerned discussion on the AAA’s e-mail list. “Some people were trying...
...second to leave Providence at .500 for the weekend. Harvard will now have to hope that Brown (14-17, 9-5 Ivy) falters during the last two weeks of league play. “We came in wanting to win three of four, obviously, because Brown is a big gun,” said junior third baseman Steffan Wilson. “After we split [Saturday] we needed to come out and win the first game, but we came up a little short. That was hanging over our heads in the second game.”HARVARD 9, BROWN...