By now you may have heard broadcast reports of the Southlake, Texas, fourth-grader who took a hand grenade to school. The school was evacuated and authorities determined the grenade was a dummy, though its safety pin (and I asssume arming handle) was attached. No word I can find on whether the grenade was a gag like this or a military training grenade. The latter do appear real as they are intended to simulate the heft and size of the real thing. Here is a photo I took a few moments ago of my own, personal training grenade that I now use as a paperweight:
Note the blue color, the military color code for a training or inert round of ammunition. Some of you will also note that this is by no means a modern grenade, the fragmentation variety of which looks like this, the M67.
But I digress.
Violence is a common phenomenon at US schools and universities. Last week a student of English literature at the University of Virginia killed at least 30 students in a rampage considered as the deadliest school attack in the US.Of course, there was no violence in the Texas incident. A fourth grader brought what is certainly his dad's property to school, and, as I said, it might not have even been a military-produced trainer at all, although the reports that it was "hollow" make that conclusion reasonable. (Mine is, too). Prudently, authorities evacuated the school and when they discovered there was no actual threat, classes resumed. But there was no violence.
So it's pretty cheeky of Iranian media to drive home a point that "Violence is a common phenomenon at US schools and universities" when they live in a glass house, speaking of violence. This is the country that invented the suicide jihadist bomber. This is a country that hangs homosexuals in public (warning, graphic). Oh, and also publicly hangs teenage girls accused of unchastity. And Iran also hangs dissidents, or those so accused, from cranes in public squares.
Nope, no violence here, only in America. Move along, now.
And the moral is? What? As long as you can point to someone somewhere who is worse than you then you are OK?
No, but don't you agree that the party which is worse ought not to turn around and lecture others about violence? If they have the time and energy for their moral superiority act, shouldn't they spend some of that on the hangings in their own country? o...right, they'd probably get the noose for being a dissident
WOW! This is for real?! I can not believe they just hang accused people in the streets ona crane! And unchaste teenage women? OMFG!
avedis -
Actually, there is no moral. This has been a test of your reading comprehension skills. We recommend that you throw away all chemicals and prescription medications, even if they have labels on them.
Its culture...and we do the same thing every day, just we've profected the murder with emotional breakdown and welfair...with a little less blood.
IT sickens me....what are we going to do?