Jeez.

Attn: Everyone. You can’t draw a trend with one data point. Sometimes a crazy person is just a crazy person.

Whoa. oops.

Hilarious.

Also, Joe Bob from Reno, your comment is staying in moderation, there is nothing worth addressing in it. If you are wondering what I am talking about (everyone else) Joe Bob thinks that a random shooting by a crazy person proves that immigrants are to blame for everything wrong with this country. Anyway, no point in airing is insane rantings on the net. But he is the first comment that got moderated away on this site, so that is a prize for him.

When things like this happen I try to resist the impulse to draw any conclusions. There are too many unknowns at this point to know what conclusions, if any can be drawn from yesterdays tragedy. We can however, say for certain that whatever conclusions Debbie Schlussel draw are pretty much the wrong ones:

UPDATE: The shooter has now been identified as a Chinese national here on a student visa. Lovely. Yet another reason to stop letting in so many foreign students…[later post]…So, the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre is a Chinese national here on a student visa. And, today, this alien did “the job that Americans just won’t do.”

Remember that the next time you hear President Bush and Condi Clueless waxing lyrical about how we need more foreign students in America. We do not. Remember the Mana Saleh Almanajam and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, two Saudi students in Tampa, last year, who hijacked a school bus full of kids while wearing trench coats in 90-plus degree weather?

Debbie has updated to note this was a South Korean national. She hasn’t figured out what a green card is yet. I recommend heading over to her site to see how “national security” conservatism looks a lot like plain, old fashioned racism. (I’m not going to link, her domain is her name)