Ridiculously Offensive Conservative Punditry Meme #5132: It Was The Va. Tech Victims' Fault

"How the hell do 25 students allow themselves to be lined up against the wall in a classroom and picked off one by one? How does that happen, when they could have rushed the gunman, the shooter, and most of them would have survived?" - Neal Boortz

"How could there be only one shooter--who was able to go a half mile away to commit a second set of shootings? Were there two and was this a coordinated terrorist attack?
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Why am I speculating that the 'Asian' gunman is a Pakistani Muslim? Because law enforcement and the media strangely won't tell us more specifically who the gunman is. Why?

Even if it does not turn out that the shooter is Muslim, this is a demonstration to Muslim jihadists all over that it is extremely easy to shoot and kill multiple American college students." - Debbie Schlussel

"Where was the spirit of self-defense here? Setting aside the ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals, why didn't anyone rush the guy? It's not like this was Rambo, hosing the place down with automatic weapons. He had two handguns for goodness' sake -- one of them reportedly a .22.

At the very least, count the shots and jump him reloading or changing hands. Better yet, just jump him. Handguns aren't very accurate, even at close range. I shoot mine all the time at the range, and I still can't hit squat. I doubt this guy was any better than I am. And even if hit, a .22 needs to find something important to do real damage—your chances aren't bad." - John Derbyshire

"There's no polite way or time to say it: American colleges and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregated dorms, politically correct academic departments and designated 'safe spaces' to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions -- while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University's anti-Minuteman Project protesters).

Instead of teaching students to defend their beliefs, American educators shield them from vigorous intellectual debate. Instead of encouraging autonomy, our higher institutions of learning stoke passivity and conflict-avoidance.

And as the erosion of intellectual self-defense goes, so goes the erosion of physical self-defense." - Michelle Malkin

"The Virginia Tech killer was Korean, not American. I haven't seen any anti-Korean stuff around. I haven't seen much condemnation of the Muslim world either, which is where unbelievable violence takes place every day. No, it's the USA that's bad. And much of this anti-American stuff comes from within.

The anti gun crowd has hopped up today. Elements at NBC News, The New York Times, Rosie O'Donnell, the British press all screaming about how terrible the Second Amendment is." - Bill O'Reilly

"First it was Johnny Muhammad, now it was Cho Sueng Hui aka Ismail Ax. Precisely how many mass shooters have to turn out to have adopted Muslim names before we get it? Islam has become the tribe of choice of those who hate American society. I'm not talking about people who grew up as Muslims, confident and secure in their faith, good fathers, sons and neighbors. I'm talking about the angry, malignant, narcissist loners who want to reject their community utterly, to throw off their 'slave name' and represent the downtrodden of the earth by shooting their friends and neighbors." - Jerry Bowyer

Which quote is your favorite and why? I'm having a tough time with this. My first inclination was to go with Bowyer, who decides to play the Muslim card, an interesting choice given the lack of evidence connecting Cho Sueng Hui to any sort of grand, globe-spanning Islamofascist conspiracy. John Derbyshire also makes a strong case for the top prize. (And he lets us know that he fires guns all the time.) O'Reilly's offering is tempting too, because it's so very O'Reilly -- it comes from a world in which The New York Times, the British press, and Rosie O'Donnell all have an equally powerful and pernicious anti-American agenda. Unfortunately, O'Reilly quickly dropped out of contention by proferring a halfway sane opinion on gun control mere seconds after unmasking Rosie.

There are a lot of worthy contenders, but I am going to have to go with the inimitable Michelle Malkin. She manages somehow to combine several common conservative complaints into a veritable soufflé of outrage at the liberal culture that prevented these unarmed students from properly defending themselves. In connecting political correctness and speech codes to the coddling of youth to academia's liberal bias to intellectual passivity to physical passivity, Malkin competes in an all-night dance marathon against logic and leaves the poor lad panting against the wall.

So I'm forced to say her comment is my favorite. What do you think?

(H/T to Media Matters for compiling some of these gems.)