Backlash?

Virginia Tech.

What a tragedy. So many lives lost, so many altered forever. My heart and my prayers go out to the families involved - including Cho's.

At the risk of sounding a bit callous, the tragedy marked by Cho's quest for murder doesn't end with the bullet that went through his skull. The tragedy will continue to morph into inevitable political shapes and will cause ripples years to come. I'm talking about two glaring facts:

1. The Gun-Control spin. It wasn't hours until some politbureau type began waxing eloquent on the gun-crisis here in America. How we need to outlaw guns because they are killing the innocent. That is a load of CRAP! Cho killed those people. He did it alone. His weapon of choice was handguns, but make no mistake the killer was human - not steel.

2. The Race Card. Soon after the murderer was finished, we found out he was Korean. Almost immediately the news began to share their deepest fear that there would be some type of 'backlash' against Koreans here in America. What kind of CRAP is that?! Up until then, I had no thoughts of animosity toward the Korean people (and still do not). It hadn't occurred to me. The media was trying to crowbar a new twist to the story. Americans should be offended by their efforts.

Politicians will be falling over each other trying to show themselves as the compassionate option. Perhaps what VT needs is for everyone to get their noses out of it and allow them to lean on each other and heal from this terrible ordeal.