It was rather surprsing to see that the old formula of idiot+gun+massacre has yet again happened but not unexpected. In a country awash with guns, these things are bound to happen. Further, when I heard that the shooter was "Asian" I knew immediately that he was a Korean. This comment from a Korean netizen was pulled from Marmot: “I’m so surprised that a Korean could do something so cruel I don’t believe it… I wonder if the investigation results are mistaken, so we have to keep watching.” So fucking typical.

I have some news for you, honey: Koreans do insane, murderous acts all the time. Remember the Deagu subway arson? Morea than 120 people were killed, both by the arsonist and the driver of the second train who lock the doors and then fucked off with the key, letting the people on the train incinerate. There are many such atrocities, including the bombing of KAL flight 858 in 1987. In the 1970's a cop when on a rampage in his own village and killed dozens. Yoo Young-chul killed 20 women while posing as a taxi driver. There are lots of such incidents in Korea's recent past. It is just that Koreans have a collective memory of 30 seconds or so.

When I describe Koreans to my friends in Canada, I use this explanation: "Koreans are like Japanese on LSD and most of them are completely insane two weeks a year." Another posted used the lame excuse that Koreans have a hard time here because of language and racism (talk about the pot calling the kettle black!) that they face here. I don't buy that one iota. Koreans make little or no effort to integrate into Canadian society whatsoever. There was even a case here locally very recently where a Korea shop tried to refuse service to anyone not Korean. When told in no uncertain terms that this was not acceptable, the shop owner threated a demonstration in front of Langley town hall. I guess he was warned of the consequences of doing so because, unlike in Korea, thorowing Molotov Cocktail at the mounties is liable to land you in jail until you are a geriatric. I could go on but we all get the picture. I have actually stopped teaching Koreans. I teach Chinese students only now and what a world of difference. The Chinese people I deal with are cultured, polite and most importantly, reasonable. At the end of the day, the authorities in the USA will fail to ask the most important question: how can a person who is clinically depressed (as the shooter apparently was) possess firearms?