--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
[Barry wrote:]
> > It's not the guns, it's their owners. Americans use
> > their guns to kill people with because they're
> > Americans and that's just what Americans DO.
>
> The perpetrator in this case was not an American. He
> was a foreigner, something I suspected as soon as I
> was made aware of this incident. Examine his culture.
OK, let's examine the crime culture of South Korea as
compared with that of the U.S.
According to the INTERPOL data, crime rate per 100,000
population in 2000:
South Korea U.S.
Murder 1.99 5.51
Rape 4.86 32.05
Robbery 11.55 144.92
Aggravated assault 68.63 323.60
Burglary 7.43 728.42
Larceny 296.96 1,401.26
All offenses 391.42 4,123.97
http://www-
rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/asia_pacific/south_korea.html
http://tinyurl.com/3bucso
Cho Seung-liu immigrated to the U.S. with his family
when he was 8 years old. He was a "foreigner," but
he was a permanent legal resident alien.
The majority of school shooters in the U.S. are
Americans (including in the worst massacres, e.g.,
the Texas bell tower and Columbine shootings).
In South Korea, citizens may not own guns privately.
There have been no known school shootings in South
Korea.
>From Reuters:
Asians fear backlash after Virginia Tech shooting
Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:00PM EDT
By Andrea Hopkins
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Virginia Tech student Jiyoun Yoo was
terrified when she heard a gunman had rampaged through her campus,
killing 32 people. When news broke on Tuesday that the gunman was a
South Korean student, her fear took a new direction.
"I'm from South Korea, so I am a little bit scared," said Yoo, 24, as
she walked on campus. Only one person was responsible for the
massacre, she said, "but maybe it will affect all South Korean
students."...
"If he speaks Korean, we'd maybe know him, but none of us does," she
said. She said her family in Seoul had called overnight, very
concerned Yoo might be a target if there was a backlash against Asian
students at Virginia Tech.
"It is big news in South Korea. Yesterday they were worried if I'm
safe, now they are worried there might be a risk that I'm South
Korean," said Yoo.
In Seoul, the South Korean government also expressed fears of a
backlash.
"We are working closely with our diplomatic missions and local Korean
residents' associations in anticipation of any situation that may
arise," a Foreign Ministry official said....
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1740954120070417
http://tinyurl.com/2vvx75
