Virginia Tech Massacre

In the midst of this tragedy, one can miss a very important lesson about the value of human life.

I've seen a bunch of news stories about this and all of them are saying 21 then 24 and now 32 dead. This may be an accurate count of those that died, but it misses a critical distinction.

News stories should read "32 murdered" NOT "33 dead." Only one person was killed today. 32 were murdered.

Lumping the murderer in with his victims is disgusting and I tend to agree with Dennis Prager that even in this small detail we see the totally inability of many to identify and name evil.

I also agree with him that we should grieve and be angry over this evil. It is the right thing to do. In fact, there's something seriously wrong with a person who is not grieving and angry, but just wants to "get over it."

One caller said he can't wait to hear about the murderer's family life and socio-economic status rather than the wickedness of his crimes.

You can see this shift taking place even now as the blame and anger has already moved from the murderer to second-guessing Virginia Tech and their security for not getting an email out fast enough! It sounds like lawyers are getting ready to make money off this already.

What is that!?! Why are things so backwards?