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April 17, 2007
Wrong Place at the Wrong Time?
I was reading some of the public comments on the Talk of the Nation blog regarding yesterday's shooting at Virginia Tech, and saw a quote from someone responding to President Bush's remarks on campus today. First, here's what Bush said:
It's impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering. Those whose lives were taken did nothing to deserve their fate. They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now they're gone -- and they leave behind grieving families, and grieving classmates, and a grieving nation.
The full text is on the White House website. When I heard the comment, I didn't give it a second thought. But someone named Danny replied on the blog this way:
I was disturbed by the President's comment today that the victims were "in the wrong place at the wrong time." Aside from the fact that his tone trivializes the horrible deaths with a cliche, and lays a level of blame on the victims, his glib comment is fundamentally wrong. These students and faculty were not in the wrong place. They were in their university, in their classrooms, exactly where they were suppposed to be. Nor were they there, on a Monday morning in April, at the wrong time. There is only one, horrible wrong here and it is the action of Cho Seung-Hui.
Tags: George W. Bush | NPR | quotes | Talk of the Nation | Virginia Tech massacre | VTshooting
Posted by acarvin at April 17, 2007 5:08 PM
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