Misplaced criticism

The mayhem has begun; as much as I prayed that there was no Muslim/Arab connection to this tragedy, I ended up ignoring the other potential spin - the involvement of a "foreigner."

Instead of initiating discussion about gun control, this is becoming about immigration - because our system isn't messed up enough.

From the Daily Kos:

“By initially playing up the possibility that the shooter was a Chinese national in the U.S. on a student visa, the narrative indicated that the enemy wasn't going to be guns, but foreigners.

In a conservative, paranoid worldview, this explanation makes perfect sense. The trouble isn't the availability of guns, it's the flood of foreigners who we've permitted into the country. Someone with a Chinese student visa arrived to the U.S. and used our freedoms to kill red-blooded Americans. The argument won't be about sensible restrictions but about the peril of outsiders.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/16/221546/582