"Law abiding citizens need to defend themselves against intruders"

Compare the number of cases involving gun murders and massacres such as this one, or kids accidentally shooting each other or their parents with the number of instances of 'law-abiding citizens' legally using their guns to defend themselves or fend off intruders. *crickets chirping*

"Criminals will be able to get weapons anyway"

An idiotic assertion that has never been tested. I find it hard to believe that common street thugs or this Cho guy are in touch with international weapon smuggling cartels.

"Constitutional freedom! Citizen militia! Blah blah blah!"

That's REGULATED militia, as in, being allowed to operate by the government, and a law dating back to the revolution when we actually had militias fighting the British. A bunch of rednecks with shotguns who want to shoot some Mexicans doesn't count as 'regulated'.

"well armed militia defense against tyrannical government"

This is the single most idiotic thing I have ever heard. The whole reason for having a government is that we give up some of our individual freedom in order to have a common system of enforceable laws. So a government should allow groups that openly threaten to overthrow it? How the hell is this different from terrorism? Who decides what qualifies as tyranny? Desegregation? Legalized abortion? Not having school prayer? Probably sounds pretty good to some of you right? Well what if another 'militia' decides that not having an Islamic government is 'tyranny'? How will you like them apples?

The argument might have been applicable when we were living under an autocratic monarchy. But a democracy is specifically structured to allow for whatever kind of change its citizens want, peacefully.

...in America and most of the civilized world is just fine. You are sadly mistaken if you think that there is any connection between the fashion world and what average men find desirable or acceptable. I would say the standard of beauty in regards to weight or waist size is much closer to, say, Carmen Electra than it is to Callista Flockhart. On the other hand, no matter how much the 'plus-size' women may bemoan it, over 150 pounds or so will never be considered attractive here either, and rightfully so. Honestly, it's not that hard to maintain a reasonable figure without starving yourself.

Thank you for conforming to the stereotype of the man-hating, humorless feminist. What's the matter, done ranting about 300? It's this kind of knee-jerk idiocy that turns people off to progressive politics in general. Thanks a bunch.

I'm really surprised that this hasn't come up in the media so far. Here's what we know:

-The two plays, "Richard McBeef" and "Mr. Brownstone" both featured adolescents who were molested by an older authority figure (step-father and teacher, respectively).

-In part of the video, he says "For my children, for my brothers and sisters that you fucked, I did it for them…"

-In another part, he says "You wanna rape us John Mark Karrs? You wanna rape us Debra Lafaves? Fuck you." (this, by the way, is almost identical to the part in Richard McBeef where he calls his stepfather "Catholic priest" and "Michael Jackson".

Given all of this, it seems pretty obvious that he was either molested or had for some reason come to think that he had been. Is this being explored at all?

P.S. Before any idiot conservatives jump on me, I think it goes without saying that being molested wouldn't have excused his actions. But it would explain them.

Brett Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" happens to be one of my favorite books. In the novel (which is infinitely more graphic than the film), Ellis methodically describes things such as dismembering women with chainsaws and inserting a rat into a woman's vagina, which then proceeds to eat her slowly from the inside.

Takashi Miike, one of Japan's most acclaimed filmmakers, has made films such as Ichi the Killer, the unrated version of which shows a woman's nipples being sliced off as she's being interrogated, and Audition, where a woman keeps a man she has dismembered and disfigured as a prisoner in a burlap sack.

Either of these is infinitely more disturbing than anything that the uncreative Cho could have thought up. In fact, it may have been precisely for his lack of creativity in fiction that he finally turned to reality as an attempt to actualize the scenes that he wanted to create but lacked the literary talent to.

But I digress. I will be the first to agree that there is a clear difference between great works that are disturbing and Cho's juvenile lashing out. Given that even the most prominent critics often fail to grasp the talent of artists such as Ellis or Miike until they are proven wrong years later, I do not trust the run-of-the-mill English professor to make the proper distinctions. English professors are, perhaps, better suited to do so than anyone else, but I shudder at the thought of some recently degreed assistant professor at some mediocre school in the Midwest being given such power over students' creativity. And you fail to consider the fact that once professors start doing it, K-12 teachers will be under even more pressure to do so. There are far too many people out there who will interpret any mention of sex or violence as a warning sign, and pretty soon, the only acceptable creative writing will be lame coming-of-age stories or stories about your family or 'the ___-American experience'.

I know there will be plenty of conservatives who will put scare quotes around the word 'creativity' and use this as another tactic to smear liberals for coddling criminals. Of course, these are the same people who couldn't care less about the Arts or any culture outside of NASCAR and country music. But anyone who takes seriously the idea of academia and literary/artistic culture as the last bastion of civilization in a world of media hysteria, reductive soundbytes, and reactionary politics, should seriously consider the consequences of trying to implement something like this.